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Current News
Center participates in Blue Star Museums program offering free admission to military personnel
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Today the Buffalo Bill Center of the West announces the launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,800 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through [...]
Next lunchtime expedition lecture considers man’s place in nature
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Do people stand apart from nature, or are we inextricably tied to the natural world? Chris Madson, editor of Wyoming Wildlife magazine, says, “We’ve struggled with that question for thousands of years.” In a June 6 lecture at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, he considers the roots of this ancient human dilemma. In [...]
‘New York Times’ bestselling author Craig Johnson returns to Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Friday, May 17th, 2013
Four days before the official release of his latest Walt Longmire Mystery novel, bestselling author Craig Johnson visits the Buffalo Bill Center of the West to talk about the series and sign advance copies of this ninth installment, A Serpent’s Tooth. Johnson’s public program takes place in the Coe Auditorium May 31, 1:30 p.m. and [...]
32nd Annual Plains Indian Museum Powwow coincides with opening of Dyck Gallery
Friday, May 17th, 2013
At the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the weekend of June 15 and 16 celebrates Plains Indian culture, arts, and music with two major events: the annual Plains Indian Museum Powwow and the long-anticipated opening of the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Gallery of the Center’s Plains Indian Museum. This marks the 32nd [...]
Well-seasoned “Cookie” shares Dutch oven cooking secrets at workshop
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
It wasn’t necessarily the trail boss who was the king of the cattle drive. More often than not, it was “Cookie,” the resident chef-of-the-trail who manned the outfit’s chuckwagon and used his trusty Dutch oven to “rustle up some grub.” The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s well-seasoned campfire cook, Cookie Ron Reed, stokes the [...]
Buffalo Bill Center of the West opens downtown store
Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Galloping into an arena at Omaha, Nebraska, on May 19, 1883, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody burst on the world stage with the first of his 30 years of Wild West shows. Now, just as its namesake sought to bring the West to the world 130 years ago, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West [...]
Camp Monaco Prize: Greater Yellowstone biodiversity research
Saturday, April 20th, 2013
Thank you to all who submitted proposals for the Camp Monaco Prize. A note from Dr. Charles R. Preston: We received fourteen (14) proposals by the April 19 deadline. They were submitted from universities, federal, state, and local agencies, and non-governmental organizations, including several proposals establishing broad, interorganizational partnerships. The topics range from large ungulate [...]
May brings expanded hours and special exhibitions
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Several stellar exhibitions highlight the upcoming season as the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (formerly the Buffalo Bill Historical Center) moves into summer operating hours of 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily. The schedule change takes place May 1 and remains in effect through September 15. Already on display and remaining so through August [...]
Nineteenth century American West on view with Bodmer exhibit
Friday, April 12th, 2013
Had it not been for Karl Bodmer’s 1830s drawings of the people and places of the American West, that way of life might have remained shadowy at best. Now, visitors can share Bodmer’s journey with the new exhibit Karl Bodmer Prints: Images of North America, on view at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West [...]
Smithsonian’s National Firearms Collection journeys West
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
The Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is proud to announce the journey westward of 64 unique firearms from the National Museum of American History’s National Firearms Collection—including four national treasures. Among these artifacts are numerous patent models documenting innovations in the field, international imagination, and historic distinction. [...]