From 1922 to 1934, there was a college preparatory school for boys down the south fork in Cody. The Valley Ranch Boarding School was founded by Larry Larom and Winthrop […]
McCracken Research Library
Museum Minute: Photo Manipulation In The Early 1900s
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. […]
Treasures from Our West: Photograph: Making a garden in North Platte, Nebraska, 1909
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2019 Photograph: Making a garden in North Platte, Nebraska, 1909 For these folks, spring undoubtedly meant consulting the Old Farmer’s Almanac and […]
Museum Minute: The Cody Red Sox
Did you ever think that Cody had a connection with the Boston Red Sox? Well, it turns out there is a connection. Eric Rossborough, the associate librarian at the McCracken […]
Museum Minute: A $10,000 Deal
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 […]
Museum Minute: Historic Video Archives Teach a Lesson: Don’t Get Close to Wildlife
The McCracken Research Library has been working to compile historical video footage of natural history events in the Greater Yellowstone Area. There are well over 80,00 video clips in the […]