Michael Wallis, historian and biographer of the American West, explores how the West of myth and the West of reality collided and became one in a free lecture at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Friday, June 14 at 4 p.m. The free talk, titled The Creation of the Wild West, is sponsored by […]
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 […]
What can the Wild West teach us about the 21st century? Turns out, quite a lot. At noon on Wednesday, December 3, Dr. Tim White shares Leadership Secrets of the Wild West in a free presentation in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Coe Auditorium. In the program, White takes the audience through a […]
“I was born here, in this place that would come to be called the Old West. But, to my kind, the land was ageless. It had no beginning and no end, no boundary between earth and sky. Like the wind and the buffalo, we belonged here, we would always belong here…Whether that west was won or lost in […]
Originally published in Points West magazine in Fall 2008 Annie Oakley embroidered pillow cover This linen pillow cover was embroidered by Annie Oakley over the signatures of Wild West performers and friends. These signatures were added between the years 1887 – 1897 based on the dates included with several of them. Oakley used different colors of […]
Originally published in Points West magazine in Winter 2007 Sharpshooter’s glass target ball Sharpshooters in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West used clay rather than glass target balls because broken glass in the arena presented a hazard. Outside the Wild West show, exhibition shooters preferred the glass balls. Consequently, organizers […]