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 West. East of Cody near Kaycee, Wyoming, was the hideout of the Hole in the Wall Gang, which was prominent during the early 20th century. […]
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 bigger than them. The ferret’s fate is intrinsically linked to prairie dogs. Historically, black footed ferrets numbered in the tens of thousands across the Great […]
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 region right away. She wanted to make it her summer home. After the summer, she asked Dunrud to build her a log cabin. Sometime […]
Originally published in Points West magazine Spring 2000 Here, Gone, and Back Again: The Black-Footed Ferret Deborah Deibler Steele Former Curatorial Assistant, Draper Natural History Museum Ed. Note, 12.01.2017: Black-footed ferrets and their recovery have been in the news again recently, and even the subject of a documentary, Ferret Town, produced by The Content Lab […]
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 near Howland Island in the mid-Pacific. No trace of Earhart or her plane was ever found. In recent years, though, Earhart and her plane are […]
Charles Belden photograph of a girl with a lamb On the back of this photograph, Charles Belden wrote, “This little orphan seems to have found a pretty good substitute for its wooly mother.” Belden, who lived and worked at the Pitchfork Ranch (1914 –1940) outside Meeteetse, Wyoming, was a prolific photographer. His collection of 2,500 […]