Coffee & Curators: Cody Firearms Museum May 1, 10–11:30 a.m. Free for members! Coffee & Curators invites members to enjoy coffee, refreshments, and each other as a curator speaks about a topic inspired by the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s permanent collections, including special up-close or behind-the-scenes access. We may be venturing out more […]
Pop culture usually influences the way we live. And it turns out firearms collecting is no different. Danny Michael, the Cody Firearms Museum curator, said in the past western movies really influenced what type of guns were collected but today that is changing. A great example is the Die Hard series. “Where John McClane, you […]
Colt Buntline Revolvers weren’t very well known until a biography was written about Wyatt Earp. Earp was an American law enforcement officer who served as deputy marshal Tombstone, Arizona Territory during the late 1800s and into early 1900s. The book ‘Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal’ was written by Stuart N. Lake in 1931. The story was […]
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum, completely redesigned and renovated in 2019, includes about 4,200 firearms in its 40,000 square feet of exhibit space along with thousands more related artifacts. The oldest guns date all the way back to the 1400s, and the newest was made as recently as late 2018. […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2019 Favorite Firearms A number of firearms experts, scholars, enthusiasts, and Buffalo Bill Center of the West staffers are more than a little familiar with the Center’s Cody Firearms Museum’s (CFM) vast collection. In the summer 2019 issue of Points West magazine, several weighed in on their “Favorite Firearm” […]
The Cody Firearms Museum is well known for its huge collection of Winchester firearms. But Danny Michael, museum’s curator, said the museum actually has a much larger Winchester archival collection. “We might have a few thousand firearms that Winchester gave us. But we have 30,000 drawings…engineering drawings that they gave us of how they built […]