William F. Cody

Reading Room, McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, USA. (BBCW-MRL03)

Ailey Hall, #BuffaloBillDetective

June 24, 2022 by Lorna Gage

Ailey Hall, originally from Houston, Texas, has earned a BA in English from Auburn University in Alabama and a MA in Romantic Victorian studies from University of St. Andrews in […]

Mountain Men of the Old School

April 28, 2021 by Eric Rossborough

Max Wilde first drifted through the Cody area in 1913. An Indiana farm boy, he was fascinated by stories of hunting and trapping in the West and far North. “When […]

Fig. 7: Buffalo Bill's Wild West show cast and personnel, Earl's Court, London, England, May 1887. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection, McCracken Research Library. P.6.205

Finding Frank – Points West Online

March 11, 2021 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2016 Finding Frank By Jennifer R. Henneman In a previous Points West Online article, readers took great delight in Mike Parker’s story about the […]

Kurz and Allison print. "Capture and Death of Sitting Bull," January 5, 1891. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC, 20540 USA. LC-DIG-pga-01896

Sitting Bull: Even Cody Couldn’t Save Him – Points West Online

March 4, 2021 by Nancy McClure

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 […]

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 […]

Lithograph, 1899: "Charge of the 24th and 25th Colored Infantry and Rescue of Rough Riders at San Juan Hill," July 2, 1898. Copyrighted 1899 by Kunz & Allison, 267-269 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 1.69.5750

Blacks in Army Blue – Points West Online

January 22, 2021 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineFall/Winter 2018 Blacks in Army Blue: Early Depictions by Frederic Remington and William F. Cody By Dr. John Langellier John Langellier knows a thing or […]