Coffee & Curators: McCracken Research Library Center of the West members, we invite you to join us for refreshments and a curator talk focused on our McCracken Research Library. Our Coffee & Curators series invites members to enjoy coffee, refreshments, and each other as one of our curators speaks about a topic inspired by the […]
Vincent Mercaldo was a collector of Western imagery. But he was also a painter and an artist. Samantha Harper, the archivist at the McCracken Research Library, said he would manipulate many images. “He wasn’t afraid to cut somebody’s head off in another picture and put them in a completely different picture. He would paint different backgrounds onto […]
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 one is sure to agree that art is everywhere: masterworks in the Whitney Western Art Museum, colorful Wild West posters in the Buffalo Bill Museum, masterful taxidermy in the Draper […]
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 Lewis and William Clark, and his home state of California. A self-taught scholar, Clarke wrote what is still considered to be one of the seminal books on the Lewis and […]
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. “There were a couple of gentlemen that worked for Winchester that actually designed weapons or ran machinery that were so difficult to run that they were deemed as being essential […]
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 a free lecture at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Friday, June 14 at 4 p.m. The free talk, titled The Creation of the Wild West, is sponsored by […]