Custer’s Last Stand was reenacted thousands of times in the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. A poster shows the classic image of Lakota, Cheyenne and… Read More
Museum Minute: Pony Express Saddle
Although the Pony Express only lasted for about a year and half, the mail service has become synonymous with the Old West. The story of… Read More
Museum Minute: How One Object Can Tell A Bigger Story
What can a wagon jack tell us? (A wagon jack is a tool used to change out tires.) Well, for the story of Buffalo Bill… Read More
Points West Online: Roosevelt’s Presidential Tour of Yellowstone National Park
Originally published in Points West magazine Fall 2006 Roosevelt’s Presidential Tour of Yellowstone National Park By Jeremy Johnston All images are courtesy of the Theodore… Read More
Points West Online: Buffalo Bill Builds a Town, Part 1
Originally published in Points West magazine Fall/Winter 2013 Buffalo Bill Builds a Town, Part 1 Read part 2 By Jeremy M. Johnston Curator of Western… Read More
Center of the West’s curator of Buffalo Bill Museum and western history earns PhD
It’s safe to say that Jeremy Johnston—a former history professor at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, and now Curator of Western History and the Buffalo… Read More
Cody Culture Club season kicks off with January 19 program at Buffalo Bill Center of the West
How do you establish a lasting memorial and museum in a small town like Cody, Wyoming? Find out at the Cody Culture Club’s first event… Read More
Papers staff delves deeper in the life of William F. Cody at Center of the West
At the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, the Papers of William F. Cody—an archive of the life and times of an… Read More
Scotland and Wyoming’s Johnson County War? Center of the West curator makes the connection
Range wars, especially the infamous 1892 Johnson County War in Wyoming, pitted neighbor against neighbor in frenzied conflicts about land. In Johnson County, the homesteaders… Read More
Cody celebrates namesake William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s 170th birthday
It’s a tradition in Cody, Wyoming: The town named after William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody celebrates the showman and entrepreneur with several events centered around… Read More