Each year, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, along with the whole town of Cody, Wyoming, celebrates the birthday of namesake William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. This year, the Center offers free admission all day on Sunday, February 24 in honor of the occasion. Volunteer Mike Parker will be on hand in the Center’s […]
A Celebration of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney The cornerstone of our Whitney Western Art Museum’s collection is a monumental sculpture of William F. Cody by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Buffalo Bill—The Scout. View the video below to learn more about sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the art world of the 1920s when she created this sculpture, and how […]
It’s a tradition in Cody, Wyoming: The town named after William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody celebrates the showman and entrepreneur with several events centered around his birthday in late February. On Friday, February 26—Cody’s 170th birthday—the Buffalo Bill Center of the West throws Buffalo Bill a free birthday party from 5 – 7 p.m. Jeremy […]
When I tell people I manage the Corporate Archive Blueprints for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, they immediately assume I am Harry Potter with the Marauders Map and I know interesting secret passage ways into the building. Alas, I have yet to find a Room of Requirement, the One-Eyed Witch Passage or moving […]
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, namesake of the town of Cody, Wyoming, as well as the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, would be 169 years young this year, and the Center celebrates that fact with a free event on Friday, February 27, 5 – 7 p.m. This year’s birthday bash highlights the music of […]
Today we celebrate the birthday of one of our patrons, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, whose generosity and continued support of his mother’s founding contributions helped to shape the Whitney Western Art Museum into the great institution that it is today. Born in 1899 to Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt (nicknamed CV) went […]