The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum, completely redesigned and renovated in 2019, includes about 4,200 firearms in its 40,000 square feet of exhibit space along with thousands more related artifacts. The oldest guns date all the way back to the 1400s, and the newest was made as recently as late 2018. […]
The Cody Firearms Museum (CFM) at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West knows a thing or two about reloading—guns and rifle ammunition, that is. Today, however, instead of reloading cartridges, staffers are reloading the entire firearms museum. On the proverbial drawing Board since 2009, the time is now right for the museum to undergo […]
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West has learned that it is a recipient of a “Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections” grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The project upgrades environmental controls, and improves fire and security systems in the Cody Firearms Museum (CFM). The $300,000 NEH award requires a $100,000 match from […]
As the great-great-great-granddaughter of Oliver Winchester, author Laura Trevelyan knows a thing or two about the Winchesters—the family and the guns. On Thursday, May 18 at 5:15 p.m., the Buffalo Bill Center of the West hosts Trevelyan for a lecture about her book, The Winchester: The Gun that Built an American Dynasty. The free talk […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2010 Stone lintel from the Winchester factory In 1975, the Winchester Arms Collection arrived at the then-named Buffalo Bill Historical Center under the terms of a long-term loan from the Olin Corporation. Ownership of the collection was formally transferred to the Center in 1988, and by 1991, […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2015 Thomas K. Bacon pocket model revolver Thomas K. Bacon was associated with many companies throughout his life. He initially worked with arms maker Ethan Allen (unrelated to the Allen of Revolutionary War-era fame), but in the late 1840s, he formed Bacon & Company. In 1857, he […]