Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2017 Alaska Man, Part 2 Click here to read part one… By Mary Robinson In part one of Alaska Man, we learned how Harold McCracken publicizes his northern adventures to establish himself as a public figure. Each of his first two expeditions to Alaska was a “roll of the […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2017 Alaska Man, Part 1 By Mary Robinson “You’d take him for a schoolmaster, precisely like a schoolmaster, or maybe a scientist. Bald-headed, spectacled, and so skinny you’d think the frost would finish him off the first cold night.” Such was one journalist’s impression of Harold McCracken (Fig. 1), […]
Harold McCracken, the first director of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, became famous in the 1920s through his adventures hunting bears, filming wildlife, and exploring in Alaska. After spending more than eight years living in this incredible environment, wildlife biologist Kristine Sowl shares her own experiences with the abundant wildlife of the Alaska […]
Past Exhibition Out West where the North Begins: Harold McCracken in Alaska and the Arctic, 1916–1928 June 3, 2017 – February 4, 2018 As part our Centennial celebration in 2017, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and our McCracken Research Library opened a special exhibition to share the remarkable story of Harold McCracken and […]
In celebration of its Centennial, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is offering free admission for Wyoming and Montana residents all day on Sunday, June 4. “As we look at all that’s led to the success of the Center of the West for 100 years, it’s clear that we owe so much to our […]
Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2012 Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) Each year, visitors to the Greater Yellowstone region cite the grizzly bear as the one thing they would most like to see. The grizzly has become a symbol of the untamed West that attracts people to Yellowstone from around the globe and […]