The McCracken Research Library is a local history library not only a library specializing in all things Buffalo Bill. And the Cody area is not lacking interesting stories of the […]
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Museum Minute: The Black Footed Ferret Success Story
The black footed ferret is a fierce but tiny predator. They are typically under three pounds and 90 percent of their diet is comprised of prairie dogs, which are usually […]
Museum Minute: Amelia Earhart in Wyoming
The famous aviator first visited Wyoming in 1934. She traveled to Meeteetse for summer break where she stayed on local guide Carl Dunrud’s dude ranch. Earhart fell in love with […]
The Black-Footed Ferret – Points West Online
Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2000 Here, Gone, and Back Again: The Black-Footed Ferret Deborah Deibler SteeleFormer Curatorial Assistant, Draper Natural History Museum Ed. Note, 12.01.2017: Black-footed ferrets and […]
Buffalo Bill Center of the West has its own piece of Amelia Earhart history
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, almost 40 at the time, disappeared on July 2, 1937, on an around-the-world flight in her twin-engine Lockheed Electra. She and navigator Fred Noonan’s last transmission was […]
Treasures from Our West: Photograph, girl with lamb
Originally featured in Points West, Fall 2007 Charles Belden photograph of a girl with a lamb On the back of this photograph, Charles Belden wrote, “This little orphan seems to […]