Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall/Winter 2018 Design Drawing, Winchester Repeating Shotgun A quick glance through each of the Center’s five museums, and… Read More
Donor Impact: Mary Hiestand
Charles G. Clarke was a pioneering Hollywood cinematographer, one of the first to film “talkies.” His real love, though, was history, especially that of Meriwether… Read More
Museum Minute: Essential Winchester Jobs During World War I
During World War I, some Winchester Repeating Arms Company employees were eventually exempt from the draft because their skills were essential to the war effort.… Read More
Award-winning author Michael Wallis explores “The Creation of the Wild West” in free lecture
Michael Wallis, historian and biographer of the American West, explores how the West of myth and the West of reality collided and became one in… Read More
The Search for H.O.B.
A behind the scenes look at the mystery solving process of identifying persons in historic photographs. In this case the mysterious photographer H.O.B.
Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s upcoming Whoop It Up! exhibition celebrates 100 years of the Cody Stampede
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West announces a not-to-be-missed special exhibition opening in June. Whoop It Up! Celebrating 100 Years of the Cody Stampede… Read More
Points West Online: The Greater Yellowstone Sights and Sounds Archive
Originally published in Points West magazine Summer 2010 Seeing and Hearing: The Greater Yellowstone Sights and Sounds Archive By Charles R. Preston, PhD Imagine a… Read More
Museum Minute: Frederic Remington and Buffalo Bill
The McCracken Research Library receives hundreds of collections of journals, notebooks and photographs annually. Often, library staff are not able to go through it all.… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Photograph, Mary Jester Allen with Frank Butler’s rifle
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2018 Photograph, Mary Jester Allen with Frank Butler’s Rifle After the death of William F. “Buffalo Bill”… Read More
Points West Online: Will James & Me—New Books at the McCracken
Originally published in Points West magazine Spring 2016 Will James & Me: New Books at the McCracken By Eric Rossborough Will James was an author… Read More