The Buffalo Bill Center of the West announces a new scholarship opportunity for local high school seniors—the K.T. Roes Memorial Scholarship, created in honor of K.T. Roes’s passion for the community of Cody and the Center of the West. During her rich and diverse career, Roes worked as a librarian and as a journalist, started […]
The Draper Natural History Museum was founded in 1998. The founding curator, Dr. Charles Preston, had a surprise collection waiting for him when he arrived. “I was told of a group of taxidermist specimen that were somewhere in the vaults of the museum,” recalled Preston. “There were a couple hundred taxidermy birds and mammals that […]
Thank you to all of the winners of our Centennial History Contest! The first place winner in the Paper Category is also our Grand Prize Winner: Emily Hollingshead from Cody High School. Here we post, in its entirety, Emily’s essay on Annie Oakley: Annie Oakley: Little Sure Shot Aims for Equality—How Annie Oakley Advocated for […]