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Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian Kateri, the Golden BUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST � CODY, WYOMING � SUMMER 2013 � Distinctive firearms from the Smithsonian � Kateri, the golden eagle � Buffalo Bill’s horses To the point ©2013 Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Written permission is required to copy, reprint, or distribute Points West materials in any medium or format. All photographs in Points West are Center photos unless otherwise noted. Questions about image I look across rights and reproduction should be directed to Rights and Reproductions, [email protected]. Bibliographies, the page to the works cited, and footnotes, etc. are purposely omitted to photo above the conserve space. However, such information is available by As contacting the editor. Address correspondence to Editor, Points Table of Contents, it hits me: West, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 720 Sheridan Avenue, We’re officially the Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyoming 82414, or [email protected] Center of the West, and we Managing Editor: have a new façade to prove it. Ms. Marguerite House Assistant Editor: Our name change—from Ms. Nancy McClure By Bruce Eldredge Buffalo Bill Historical Center— Designer: Ms. Tiffany Swain Olson Executive Director is moving along with lightning Contributing Staff Photographers: speed; the sign on the front Nancy McClure, Bonnie Smith, Melissa Hill of the building is just one of the most obvious. We’ve Imaging Manager: changed voicemail messages and e-mail signatures; Mr. Sean Campbell we’ve created new ads and billboards. We have bright, Credits and Permissions: new signs along Eight Street in front of our facility. Our Ms. Ann Marie Donoghue Advisory Team: visitors now sport Center of the West admission stickers, Marguerite House, Public Relations & Managing Editor and merchandise in our Museum Stores carries the Nancy McClure, Public Relations & Assistant Editor ContentsName change tasks continue at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West—including a new moniker for the front of the building. Tiffany Swain Olson, Designer Center’s logos. Business cards are on order, and name Mindy Besaw, Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum badges are in the works. An upgrade to our Web site is Megan Smith, School Services Coordinator FEATURES: DEPARTMENTS: on the agenda, too. Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian. 14–15 BITS AND BYTES Points West is published quarterly for patrons and friends 4 News, activities, and events And the list goes on… of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. For more information, Among these artifacts are numerous patent models documenting contact the editor at the address above. innovations in the field, international imagination, and historic 16–17 CALENDAR OF EVENTS While we’re excited about these changes, our bigger The Center of the West is a private, non-profit, educational distinction. The Smithsonian entrusted the Center with the institution dedicated to preserving and interpreting the natural conservation of these firearms and is honored to display them at and cultural history of the American West. Founded in 1917, its mission is incorporating what the Center represents the Cody Firearms Museum. 28 TREASURES FROM OUR WEST collections include: Buffalo Bill and the West he lived and loved, This issue’s look at our collections throughout our collections and within our activities: The historic photographs and documents, firearms, the nature and Buffalo Bill Center of the West preserves, protects, and science of the Greater Yellowstone region, Plains Indians, and 10 Kateri: good as gold. She turned her thirteen-pound body masterworks of western art. into the wind to gain lift. She heard the familiar roar of a passing 30 BETWEEN THE BOOKENDS promotes the authentic story of the American West. We The mission of Points West is to deliver an engaging vehicle. The sound grew louder and louder…Whack! In that one Peace Medals: Negotiating Power in want you, our visitors on site and online, to gain new educational magazine primarily to our patrons and friends. moment, the golden eagle’s life changed forever. She would never Early America, edited by Dr. Robert Points West will use a multi-disciplinary strategy to connect the again fly free over the open spaces of Wyoming. By Melissa Hill B. Pickering. Review by Dr. Raymond J. appreciation and insights into the West. Simply put, we reader to the nature and culture of the American West, and the DeMallie want you to experience the West first hand—to see it, Buffalo Bill Center of the West in particular, through exceptional images and appealing, reader-friendly stories—all in celebration 18 Buffalo Bill Center of the West remembers Cort Dietler. A THOUSAND WORDS hear it, taste it, draw it, tap your toes to it, smell it, and of the Spirit of the American West. 31 support it. We can’t think of a better place to do that About the cover: 20 Studying the American West from Scotland: the Papers of than one where the West is so central. William F. Cody and University of Strathclyde. In addition to drawing international attention to the mission of the Papers project, And that, friends, is the reason the word “Center” the conference demonstrated the value of examining William F. takes center stage in our new name. Cody and the American West in a transnational context. By Jeremy Johnston, Gregory Davis, and Alessandra Alice Magrin Still, Buffalo Bill is a big part of the West, too, and a Buffalo Bill and His Horses. From those early scouting days on, Throughout this issue big part of Cody, Wyoming. We kept his name in ours 22 of Points West, there he [William F. Cody] was continually on horseback, except for a are numerous gift icons. because of the roots and heritage of the museum, the few years when he was playing in melodrama. He early mastered Each one represents a town, and the surrounding area in which William F. the accomplishment of riding bareback and leaping off and on donor(s) who has made his horse while the animal was galloping at full speed. By Agnes the event, program, or “Buffalo Bill” Cody envisioned and developed the Cody Wright Spring acquisition possible. community. Thank you donors! I hope you like our new direction and the new look of the Center’s communications to you. Let me know how The Buffalo Bill Center of the West is pleased to partner with we are doing! the Smithsonian Institution in the extraordinary Journeying Do you receive our e-newsletter West: Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian. Included in the Visit us Western Wire? If not, sign up Smithsonian Affiliations exhibit is Catherine the Great’s Russian Jaeger Flintlock Rifle, today! . Check it out at Magazine of the Buffalo Bill ca. 1780 (detail). Read more about the exhibit beginning online support.bbhc.org/enewsletter. #ENTEROFTHE7ESTs#ODY 7YOMING on page four. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center. L.373.2012.52 I 2 POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 3 To the point ©2013 Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Written permission is required to copy, reprint, or distribute Points West materials in any medium or format. All photographs in Points West are Center photos unless otherwise noted. Questions about image I look across rights and reproduction should be directed to Rights and Reproductions, [email protected]. Bibliographies, the page to the works cited, and footnotes, etc. are purposely omitted to photo above the conserve space. However, such information is available by As contacting the editor. Address correspondence to Editor, Points Table of Contents, it hits me: West, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 720 Sheridan Avenue, We’re officially the Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyoming 82414, or [email protected] Center of the West, and we Managing Editor: have a new façade to prove it. Ms. Marguerite House Assistant Editor: Our name change—from Ms. Nancy McClure By Bruce Eldredge Buffalo Bill Historical Center— Designer: Ms. Tiffany Swain Olson Executive Director is moving along with lightning Contributing Staff Photographers: speed; the sign on the front Nancy McClure, Bonnie Smith, Melissa Hill of the building is just one of the most obvious. We’ve Imaging Manager: changed voicemail messages and e-mail signatures; Mr. Sean Campbell we’ve created new ads and billboards. We have bright, Credits and Permissions: new signs along Eight Street in front of our facility. Our Ms. Ann Marie Donoghue Advisory Team: visitors now sport Center of the West admission stickers, Marguerite House, Public Relations & Managing Editor and merchandise in our Museum Stores carries the Nancy McClure, Public Relations & Assistant Editor ContentsName change tasks continue at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West—including a new moniker for the front of the building. Tiffany Swain Olson, Designer Center’s logos. Business cards are on order, and name Mindy Besaw, Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum badges are in the works. An upgrade to our Web site is Megan Smith, School Services Coordinator FEATURES: DEPARTMENTS: on the agenda, too. Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian. 14–15 BITS AND BYTES Points West is published quarterly for patrons and friends 4 News, activities, and events And the list goes on… of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. For more information, Among these artifacts are numerous patent models documenting contact the editor at the address above. innovations in the field, international imagination, and historic 16–17 CALENDAR OF EVENTS While we’re excited about these changes, our bigger The Center of the West is a private, non-profit, educational distinction. The Smithsonian entrusted the Center with the institution dedicated to preserving and interpreting the natural conservation of these firearms and is honored to display them at and cultural history of the American West. Founded in 1917, its mission is incorporating what the Center represents the Cody Firearms Museum.
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