What do William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Gifford Pinchot, and Horace Albright have in common? All had significant, though differing, roles in shaping modern land use in the American West. At the Draper Natural History Museum’s next Lunchtime Expedition, speaker Jeremy Johnston shares insights into the lives and legacies of Cody, Pinchot, and Albright. The […]
The National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA), the outdoor world’s largest and most prestigious book award program, has tapped Wahb: The Biography of a Grizzly as its winner in the Classic Division of its 2015 awards. Originally penned by Ernest Thompson Seton in 1900, Buffalo Bill Center of the West Curators Jeremy M. Johnston and Charles […]
After a trip to northwest Wyoming in 1899, Ernest Thompson Seton published Wahb: The Biography of a Grizzly through a series of three articles for Century Magazine, and then the story appeared in book form in 1900. More than a hundred years later, Buffalo Bill Center of the West Curators Jeremy Johnston and Charles Preston […]
Originally published in Points West in Spring 2009 Death Gulch, Wahb Springs – A Poetic Addendum to On the Trail of a Bear Named Wahb By Dr. Burt BradleyAssociate Professor of English, Northwest College, Powell, Wyoming Death here burns, without fire or flame.But, hell, the air, like Dante’s Inferno,hangs heavy with brimstone, cloggedwith ancient sulfur. […]
Originally published in Points West in Spring 2009 On the Trail of a Bear Named Wahb: Two Professors on a Bear Hunt By Jeremy JohnstonCurator of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Western American History In the summer of 2008, fellow Northwest College professor Burt Bradley and I set off on a cool, summer morning to […]