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), […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Frank Tenney Johnson was at the apex of his career as a painter of America’s West in December 1938 when he and his wife accepted an invitation to have dinner and attend a sports event with some friends,” Gene Ball, Buffalo Bill Center of the West‘s public relations director wrote in the fall 1979 Center newsletter. “In […]
The mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on March 8 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing has captivated the world’s attention. It’s also triggered a spate of news stories about other aviation mysteries—foremost among them being the fate of Amelia Earhart, whose Lockheed Electra disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 […]