Originally published in Points West magazineFall/Winter 2017 From “Thorofare” to Destination – the South Fork of the Shoshone River, part 2 By Jeremy M. Johnston, PhD The South Fork of the Shoshone River, southwest of Cody, Wyoming, was a relatively busy place in the nineteenth century. In the previous issue of Points West, Dr. Jeremy […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2017 From “Thorofare” to Destination – the South Fork of the Shoshone River, part 1 By Jeremy M. Johnston, PhD There was a reason that William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody located his beloved TE Ranch along the South Fork of the Shoshone River: It’s a beautiful area, steeped in […]
Jim Mountain… Who’s Jim? By Wes Allen and Jeremy Johnston February 13, 2020 5:30–7:30 p.m. at Sunlight Sports / Cody Theater 1131 / 1171 Sheridan Avenue in Cody Cody Culture Club: if you love Cody, you’re part of the Club! Join us one Thursday a month, January – April. Heavy hors d’ouevres and cash bar at […]
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 Arapaho warriors on horseback surrounding Custer’s men. But Jeremy Johnston, the curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum, said it probably didn’t happen like that. “A lot of the Lakota and […]
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 riders delivering mail from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California in ten to eleven days at the time was the fastest a letter was ever delivered before electronic communication. One […]
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 Cody it depicts a time period that we don’t know as much about compared to his later years. That’s according to Jeremy Johnston, the curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum. […]