Leonard Cody Bell

Cody Bell, with his hair in buns, at a National Guard encampment in 1909. MS 294 William A. Bell Family Collection, McCracken Research Library. P.294.0030 (detail)

Museum Minute: A $10,000 Deal

October 17, 2019 by Kamila Kudelska

When Leonard Cody Bell (not related) was nine years old, Buffalo Bill Cody offered him $10,000 if he would keep his hair long until he was 18. By the time […]

Cody Bell's cornet. Chicago Music Company, 1902. Gift in memory of William A. Bell and Leonard Cody Bell by Mrs. Frances Slattery Guilbert. 1.69.6106

The Bell Family Collection – Points West Online

May 24, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazine Spring 2006 The Bell Family Collection: A Hair-Raising Tale from the Archives By Juti A. Winchester, PhD All photographs are gifts in memory of […]