When Tim McCoy was eight years old, his father took him to a showing of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Tim dated his desire to be a Westerner from that point. […]
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Bierstadt: Decimation of the Herds
Bierstadt used art as a platform to denounce the decimation of America’s most iconic and largest mammal. Some of his paintings present the bison as flourishing and others lament the […]
Ceremonial Pipes in the Plains Indian Museum – Points West Online
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 1994 Ceremonial Pipes in the Plains Indian Museum By Emma I. HansenCurator Emerita, Plains Indian Museum Before talking of holy things, we prepare ourselves […]
