Shortly after I started at the McCracken Research Library, our Director, Mary Robinson, came into my office one day. “Do you want to go to lunch?’ “Huh?” I usually just bring my lunch. “There’s a lunch today, at Willis McDonald’s house. It’s his birthday.” I knew the name Willis McDonald. Willis had gifted the McCracken […]
Before the late Buffalo Bill Center of the West Trustee Willis McDonald IV (1926–2015) retired to Wyoming in 1996, he was an attorney with the prestigious New York law firm of White & Case, specializing in public and private finance. With a posthumous gift, McDonald’s detailed records of some 200 transactions from around the globe—completed […]