Harold McCracken
(1894-1983)
Dr. Harold McCracken was the founding Director
of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art and of the Buffalo Bill Historical
Center. To honor his lifelong search for knowledge and his devotion
to research and scholarship, the McCracken Research Library was dedicated
on August 15, 1980. New library facilities were rededicated and opened
to the public on June 24, 1994.
Bibliography of Published Books
McCracken, Harold. The American Cowboy.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973.
The Beast That Walks Like Man: The Story of the Grizzly Bear.
Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1955.
Beyond the Frozen Frontier. NY: Robert Speller Publishing
Corp., 1936.
The Biggest Bear on Earth. Drawings by Paul Bransom.
Philadelphia and New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1943.
and Richard I. Frost. The Buffalo Bill Story: A Brief Account.
Cody, Wyo.: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, [n.d.].
Caribou Traveler. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1949.
The Charles M. Russell Book: The Life and Work of the Cowboy
Artist. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957.
The Flaming Bear. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1951.
The Frank Tenney Johnson Book: A Master Painter of the Old West.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
Frank Tenney Johnson Western Paintings. Dallas, Tex.: The
Exchange Bank and Trust Co., 1971.
Frederic Remington. NY: Graham Galleries, 1971.
Frederic Remington, Artist of the Old West (With a Bibliographical
Check List of Remington Pictures and Books.) Introduction
by James Chillman, Jr. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co.,
1947.
The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966.
Frederic Remington Memorial Collection. NY: Knoedler
Galleries, 1954.
The Frederic Remington Studio Collection. NY:
Gallery Press, [n.d.].
George Catlin and the Old Frontier. NY: Dial
Press, 1959.
The Great White Buffalo. Illustrated by Remington Schuyler.
NY and Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1946.
and Paul Dyke. A Heritage of the Blackfeet.
Educational Series Number 1. Cody, Wyo.: Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, 1972.
Hoof, Claws and Antlers: the Story of American Big-Game Animals.
Illustrated by Lee J. Ames. Garden City, NY: Garden City Books,
1958.
Hunters of the Stormy Sea. Garden City, NY: Doubleday
& Co., 1957.
Iglaome: The Lone Hunter. NY: The Century Co., 1930.
Waldo R. Wedel, Robert Edgar, John H. Moss, H.E. Wright, Wilfred
M. Husted, and William Mulloy. The Mummy Cave Project in
Northwestern Wyoming. Cody, Wyo.: Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, 1978.
Nicolai Fechin. NY: Hammer Galleries, 1961.
Pirate of the North. Drawings by Ernest Tonk.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1953.
Portrait of the Old West: With a Biographical Check List of Western
Artists. Foreword by R.W.G. Vail. NY: McGraw-Hill,
1952.
Roughnecks and Gentlemen. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1968. [McCracken's Autobiography].
Sentinel of the Snow Peaks. Illustrated by Enos B.
Comstock. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1945.
Toughy. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1948.
and Harry Van Cleve. Trapping: The Craft and Science of Catching
Fur-Bearing Animals. Illustrated by Howard L. Hastings.
NY: A.S. Barnes, 1947.
Winning of the West. Illustrated by Lee Ames.
Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1955.
Other Works
Catlin, George. Catlin's North American
Indian Portfolio. Introduction by Harold McCracken.
Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1970.
Loan Exhibition of Western Americana "How
the West was Won" Paintings, Watercolors, Bronzes by
Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell for the Benefit of the
Hospital for Special Surgery. Introduction by Harold McCracken.
NY: Wildenstein, [n.d.].
Remington, Frederic. Frederic Remington's
Own West. Edited and with an introduction by Harold McCracken.
NY: Dial Press, 1960.
The West of Buffalo Bill. Introduction
by Harold McCracken. NY: H.N. Abrams, 1974.
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