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New York's Park Theatre (foreground) and environ, ca. 1830. Wikipedia.

Will the Real Frontiersman Please Stand Up? – Points West Online

February 19, 2021 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2015 Will the Real Frontiersman Please Stand Up? By Sandra K. Sagala The controversy over the film The Interview (2014), in which North Korea […]

The Huntington Avenue venue in Boston (full name: Huntington Avenue American League Baseball Grounds) was the first home of the Boston Red Sox and a huge arena for Black America. (This game is Boston vs. New York on October 8, 1904, attendance 28,040.) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540 USA. LC-USZ62-97762

Nate Salsbury’s Black America, Part 2 – Points West Online

September 18, 2020 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2019 Nate Salsbury’s Black America: Its Origins and ProgramsPart 2 Click here to read part 1 By Sandra K. Sagala In the previous issue […]

Buffalo's Bill Wild West poster, Congress of Rough Riders of the World, ca. 1895. Gift of The Coe Foundation. 1.69.170

Nate Salsbury’s Black America, Part 1 – Points West Online

September 11, 2020 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineFall/Winter 2018 Nate Salsbury’s Black America: Its Origins and Programs Part 1 By Sandra K. Sagala In spring 1895, Nate Salsbury (1846–1902) and William F. […]

Buffalo Bill and Mark Twain. (BB - P.69.544)

Mark Twain and Buffalo Bill Cody, part 3 – Points West Online

September 3, 2016 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazine in Fall 2006 Mark Twain and Buffalo Bill Cody: Mirrored through a Glass Darkly, part 3 By Sandra K. SagalaGuest Author In this, the […]

Buffalo Bill takes time to play with young American Indian children whose parents were more than likely actors in his Wild West, ca. 1913. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection. P.6.243

Mark Twain and Buffalo Bill Cody, part 2 – Points West Online

August 27, 2016 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazine in Spring 2006 Mark Twain and Buffalo Bill Cody: Mirrored through a Glass Darkly, part 2 By Sandra K. SagalaGuest Author In her last […]

The "City of Memphis" was the Mississippi river boat that Mark Twain piloted from 1859 to 1861. Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Connecticut. River boats #33.

Mark Twain and Buffalo Bill Cody, part 1 – Points West Online

August 20, 2016 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazine in Winter 2005 Mark Twain and Buffalo Bill Cody: Mirrored through a Glass Darkly, part 1 By Sandra K. SagalaGuest Author William Frederick “Buffalo […]