Originally published in Points West magazine in Summer 2003 When the Wagons Came to a Halt: Separating Women’s and Men’s Roles on the Oregon Frontier Cynthia D. Culver, Guest Author The promise of free land lured thousands of white Americans to travel 2,000 miles in covered wagons along the Oregon Trail between 1843 and 1860. […]
Originally published in Points West in Spring 1995 By Sarah E. Boehme Former Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum “Oh, do you remember Sweet Betsy from Pike/Who crossed the wide prairie with her lover Ike?”[1] Those words open a well-known American folk song that celebrates the western emigration of a spunky female pioneer. Images in painting, […]
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” —Henry Ward Beecher [1] As I mentioned in one of my earlier blog posts, Wild Things, we offer three Family Fun Days during the summer at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Family Fun Days take place one […]