You know that feeling you get when you’re inching your way to the top of a roller-coaster? The one where excitement and fear are warring in your chest and you’re trying to convince yourself that you didn’t just make a mistake by getting on this ride? Well, that’s how I felt when I accepted an internship at […]
Some of the objects we’ve treated in the conservation lab this summer have been pretty high-profile. In case I haven’t name-dropped Buffalo Bill enough yet, we’ve worked on both his saddle and his travel case. The California Mission saddle is all polished up and heading off on loan soon. And of course there’s the infamous Great Basin Winchester, […]
[I am] Going back west of the Mississippi and spending my pile out there in the country which an American statesman once said was fit only for the coyote and the rattlesnake. That’s my home country and that’s the place I love. Do I want to go back there? You just bet your life I […]
The Great Basin Winchester ’73 is now on display! The hot topic of the past few days here at the Cody Firearms Museum has been the mysterious Great Basin Winchester ’73. This firearm has all of the makings of museum magic. Even before I had applied to be an intern here at the Cody Firearms […]
This past Wednesday we had the exciting opportunity to have Recoil magazine come and do a photo shoot at the Cody Firearms Museum. Editor of Recoil magazine, Iain Harrison, and photographer Kenda Lenseigne, will be writing an article featuring several firearms from our collection at the CFM. Iain is a competitive shooter and former […]
My name is Shelly Buffalo Calf and I am interning in the conservation lab at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Coming Through the Rye by Frederic Remington will soon be on its way to the Denver Art Museum. It was modeled in 1902 and cast in 1907. One of the interesting attributes of this […]