The Cody Firearms Museum is well known for its huge collection of Winchester firearms. But Danny Michael, museum’s curator, said the museum actually has a much larger Winchester archival collection. […]
Winchester Arms Collection
Donor Spotlight: Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
From Atlanta to Cody: Robert W. Woodruff Foundation continues support of the Cody Firearms Museum Robert W. Woodruff’s lifelong love for the West, and Cody in particular, was sparked by […]
Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum launches major reload
The Cody Firearms Museum (CFM) at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West knows a thing or two about reloading—guns and rifle ammunition, that is. Today, however, instead of reloading […]
Museum Minute: Jennings Rifle
The earliest known reference to the Winchester Arms Collection is a letter from Oliver Winchester to R.S. Lawrence in 1871. Oliver Winchester asked to have the Jennings rifle for his […]
Treasures from Our West: Winchester factory lintel
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2010 Stone lintel from the Winchester factory In 1975, the Winchester Arms Collection arrived at the then-named Buffalo Bill Historical Center under […]
Herbert G. Houze named Curator Emeritus for Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum
Please note: Herbert Houze was named Curator Emeritus in 2016; he passed away in 2019. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, has named Herbert G. Houze […]
