Originally published in 1980 in the Center’s newsletter, and reprinted in Points West magazineFall/Winter 2015 Sitting Bull: Even Cody Couldn’t Save Him By Gene BallFormer Education Director The following article appeared in the Jan-Feb-March 1980 newsletter of the then-named Buffalo Bill Historical Center. At the time, Gene Ball served as the Center’s education director. Sitting […]
Originally published in Points West magazineWinter 2001 How the West was Written By Nathan BenderFormer Curator, McCracken Research Library Writing was an integral part of personal life even in the frontier west. It permitted the keeping of diaries, long distance correspondence and business, and the formal printing of laws, books and newspapers. Despite the stereotype […]
On this day, December 29, 1890, Chief Spotted Elk’s band of Mni Coujou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Sioux were intercepted by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment fleeing from the Standing Rock Agency to the Pine Ridge Agency. At this time, the Mni Coujou and Hunkpapa mourned the death of Chief Sitting Bull, only 14 days prior […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall/Winter 2015 1904 colorized postcard of a ca. 1887 photograph of Sitting Bull Likely the best-known American Indian of his time, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in 1885 after long attempts by William F. Cody to recruit him. As noted in the […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall 2008 Custer’s Last Stand painting and sketches by Edgar S. Paxson Edgar S. Paxson came to Montana in 1877, a year after the Battle of Little Bighorn. The artist was fascinated by the battle and said, “I will paint that scene…during my leisure hours. I kept dabbling […]