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. #ENTER OF THE 7EST s #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. 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. #ENTER OF THE 7EST s #ODY 7YOMING on page four. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center. L.373.2012.52
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Possessors and users Firearms reveal stories and Distinctive Firearms froomm the Smithsonian reflect diverse cultures. Some of these stories become disjointed n 1876, the Smithsonian’s Another treasure is a beautifully craftsmen sometimes custom- Firearms. The patents for the when the object is separated from National Museum of American embellished Jaeger rifle that Patent and made an experimental firearm selection of firearms on display its owner. However, when the two History established the National belonged to Catherine the Great for a particular individual, never range from 1836 to 1879. come together, the stories are rich I experimental models intending to mass produce it. and entertaining, and can reveal Firearms Collection in honor of the of Russia (1729 – 1796). A velvet American Centennial. Since then, it cheek piece added to this firearm Obtaining a patent is not a new The U.S. Patent Office donated previously untold stories from has grown to nearly 7,000 artifacts. ensured her imperial face would process; in fact, the procedure has the firearms that comprise the history as well as the origin of a In the collection are a range of not touch the stock. been around since ancient Greece. Smithsonian Collection of Patent particular firearm. firearms that have helped shape the The Gatling gun, western Patents were well known in North American experience and identity. cinematic favorite, is easily America as early as the eighteenth The Buffalo Bill Center of recognizable in the category of century, but weren’t strictly the West (formerly Buffalo Bill patent innovation. Before inventor enforced. Thomas Jefferson formed Historical Center), an Affiliate of the Richard Gatling could make his a patent committee in 1790, but Smithsonian Institution, is proud invention a reality, he first created the group dissolved three years to announce the journey westward a miniature wooden prototype for later. The process was revived in of sixty-four unique firearms from the U.S. Patent Office—on display the early nineteenth century, but this collection—including four with this collection. Patent officials was placed under investigation in which many consider national approved the design in 1862, 1836—prompting the U.S. Patent treasures. Among these artifacts allowing for the production of the Act of 1836, which standardized the are numerous patent models full scale Gatling guns, examples of patent process. documenting innovations in the which visitors can see throughout According to the Act, all inventions field, international imagination, and the Cody Firearms Museum. had to be novel and useful. A look at historic distinction. The Smithsonian The Buffalo Bill Center of these patent model firearms shows entrusted the Center with the the West and the Smithsonian that some proved to be innovative conservation of these firearms and Institution invite you to explore technological advancements; others is honored to display them at the these firearms that have helped were downright dangerous. Cody Firearms Museum. shape our nation and beyond. Throughout history, amateur Included in this exhibition is Both institutions hope that you’ll and professional inventors have a seven-foot-long gold Miquelet allow this exhibition to mold your attempted to improve upon The Holler Firm in lock musket given to President own experiences and conceptions firearms technology with rare Germany created this and unique experimental designs. folding knife for display Thomas Jefferson in 1805 by the of firearms from invention to in a store window in New Bey of Tunisia after the Tripolitan production, and then illuminate for Some were successful; others York City. The only feature Wars—an extravagant firearm often you their roles in the development were never produced past their not included in this folding knife is the crown bottle cap considered a national treasure. of our nation. experimental phase. Moreover, opener, featured on Swiss Army knives today; that Above: Ambassador of the Bey of Tunisia, Siddi Suliman Mella, presented this musket to President Thomas Jefferson in 1805. It marked the conclusion of wasn’t invented until 1892. Multi-bladed folding the Tripolitan Wars. This gift influenced the inclusion of the lyrics “to the shores of Tripoli” in the Marine’s Hymn. President Thomas Jefferson’s North African knife with .22 caliber pistol, ca. 1880. John S. Miquelet Jezail (musket), .69 caliber, 1789. Muhammad of Montenegro, maker. L.373.2012.11 Holler, Germany, maker. L.373.2012.5
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Possessors and users Firearms reveal stories and Distinctive Firearms froomm the Smithsonian reflect diverse cultures. Some of these stories become disjointed n 1876, the Smithsonian’s Another treasure is a beautifully craftsmen sometimes custom- Firearms. The patents for the when the object is separated from National Museum of American embellished Jaeger rifle that Patent and made an experimental firearm selection of firearms on display its owner. However, when the two History established the National belonged to Catherine the Great for a particular individual, never range from 1836 to 1879. come together, the stories are rich I experimental models intending to mass produce it. and entertaining, and can reveal Firearms Collection in honor of the of Russia (1729 – 1796). A velvet American Centennial. Since then, it cheek piece added to this firearm Obtaining a patent is not a new The U.S. Patent Office donated previously untold stories from has grown to nearly 7,000 artifacts. ensured her imperial face would process; in fact, the procedure has the firearms that comprise the history as well as the origin of a In the collection are a range of not touch the stock. been around since ancient Greece. Smithsonian Collection of Patent particular firearm. firearms that have helped shape the The Gatling gun, western Patents were well known in North American experience and identity. cinematic favorite, is easily America as early as the eighteenth The Buffalo Bill Center of recognizable in the category of century, but weren’t strictly the West (formerly Buffalo Bill patent innovation. Before inventor enforced. Thomas Jefferson formed Historical Center), an Affiliate of the Richard Gatling could make his a patent committee in 1790, but Smithsonian Institution, is proud invention a reality, he first created the group dissolved three years to announce the journey westward a miniature wooden prototype for later. The process was revived in of sixty-four unique firearms from the U.S. Patent Office—on display the early nineteenth century, but this collection—including four with this collection. Patent officials was placed under investigation in which many consider national approved the design in 1862, 1836—prompting the U.S. Patent treasures. Among these artifacts allowing for the production of the Act of 1836, which standardized the are numerous patent models full scale Gatling guns, examples of patent process. documenting innovations in the which visitors can see throughout According to the Act, all inventions field, international imagination, and the Cody Firearms Museum. had to be novel and useful. A look at historic distinction. The Smithsonian The Buffalo Bill Center of these patent model firearms shows entrusted the Center with the the West and the Smithsonian that some proved to be innovative conservation of these firearms and Institution invite you to explore technological advancements; others is honored to display them at the these firearms that have helped were downright dangerous. Cody Firearms Museum. shape our nation and beyond. Throughout history, amateur Included in this exhibition is Both institutions hope that you’ll and professional inventors have a seven-foot-long gold Miquelet allow this exhibition to mold your attempted to improve upon The Holler Firm in lock musket given to President own experiences and conceptions firearms technology with rare Germany created this and unique experimental designs. folding knife for display Thomas Jefferson in 1805 by the of firearms from invention to in a store window in New Bey of Tunisia after the Tripolitan production, and then illuminate for Some were successful; others York City. The only feature Wars—an extravagant firearm often you their roles in the development were never produced past their not included in this folding knife is the crown bottle cap considered a national treasure. of our nation. experimental phase. Moreover, opener, featured on Swiss Army knives today; that Above: Ambassador of the Bey of Tunisia, Siddi Suliman Mella, presented this musket to President Thomas Jefferson in 1805. It marked the conclusion of wasn’t invented until 1892. Multi-bladed folding the Tripolitan Wars. This gift influenced the inclusion of the lyrics “to the shores of Tripoli” in the Marine’s Hymn. President Thomas Jefferson’s North African knife with .22 caliber pistol, ca. 1880. John S. Miquelet Jezail (musket), .69 caliber, 1789. Muhammad of Montenegro, maker. L.373.2012.11 Holler, Germany, maker. L.373.2012.5
4 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 5 Decorated firearms While the National Firearms Collection is located at an American history museum, the collection is not limited to strictly American firearms. It contains firearms from around the world. Firearms experts know that some of the most embellished guns ever designed were developed in foreign countries. In fact, many art museums display these types of firearms in their galleries as works of art. I The Buffalo Bill Center of the West thanks the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, for sharing this extraordinary exhibit. The collection is on display through 2015. On the pages that follow, read more about other firearms in this special exhibit, along with photos and objects from the Center’s own collections.
Model 1875 Colt Gatling gun, 1875 – 1876. Cody Firearms Museum. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.2626.1
Colt Model 1883 Gatling gun, ca. 1886. Cody Firearms Museum. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.3327
This patent model is a miniature wooden prototype of Richard Gatling’s original design for his Gatling gun. The Miles Greenwood Gatling gun battery, Fort Lincoln, Dakota Territory, showing military quarters and blockhouse, June 1877. Photographed Foundry and Machine Works of Cincinnati, Ohio, made the first six by Frank Jay Haynes within the year following the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. Buffalo Bill Center of the West. MS 021 Gatling guns, but they were destroyed by a fire. The Cooper Firearms Yellowstone National Park Collection. P.21.41 Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, improved this patent model from 1865 through 1866. Gatling gun patent, (Left and opposite) Catherine the Great’s Russian Jaeger Flintlock Rifle, ca. 1780. Smithsonian Institution, National November 4, 1862, Hertford County, North Carolina. L.373.2012.51 Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center. L.373.2012.52
6 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 7 Decorated firearms While the National Firearms Collection is located at an American history museum, the collection is not limited to strictly American firearms. It contains firearms from around the world. Firearms experts know that some of the most embellished guns ever designed were developed in foreign countries. In fact, many art museums display these types of firearms in their galleries as works of art. I The Buffalo Bill Center of the West thanks the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, for sharing this extraordinary exhibit. The collection is on display through 2015. On the pages that follow, read more about other firearms in this special exhibit, along with photos and objects from the Center’s own collections.
Model 1875 Colt Gatling gun, 1875 – 1876. Cody Firearms Museum. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.2626.1
Colt Model 1883 Gatling gun, ca. 1886. Cody Firearms Museum. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.3327
This patent model is a miniature wooden prototype of Richard Gatling’s original design for his Gatling gun. The Miles Greenwood Gatling gun battery, Fort Lincoln, Dakota Territory, showing military quarters and blockhouse, June 1877. Photographed Foundry and Machine Works of Cincinnati, Ohio, made the first six by Frank Jay Haynes within the year following the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. Buffalo Bill Center of the West. MS 021 Gatling guns, but they were destroyed by a fire. The Cooper Firearms Yellowstone National Park Collection. P.21.41 Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, improved this patent model from 1865 through 1866. Gatling gun patent, (Left and opposite) Catherine the Great’s Russian Jaeger Flintlock Rifle, ca. 1780. Smithsonian Institution, National November 4, 1862, Hertford County, North Carolina. L.373.2012.51 Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center. L.373.2012.52
6 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 7 The journey continues: moree firearms from the Smithsonian A three-cylinder revolver. Sliding breech chamber. Revolving firearm that uses a chain. A sundial. Two cylinders, a central axis pin, and two triggers. Blunderbuss. McClellan’s British Lang Lord Patent, Smith & Wesson Magazine Lever Action Patent Turkey, Albania, Germany, Japan, North Africa, France, England, and America. Pepperbox Pistol, 1845. June 12, 1860, February 14, 1854. L.373.2012.15 As you’ve read on the previous pages, Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms L.373.2012.12 Minersville, Pennsylvania. from the Smithsonian is a collection of extraordinary and unusual guns, and gun According to American Civil War parts from around the world. Read on for more information about additional L.373.2012.44 General George B. McClellan, the firearms in this exhibit (indicated by ID numbers that begin with “L”). We’ve James Lord altered a Pennsylvania Duke of Wellington presented him Horace Smith’s and Daniel Wesson’s also included images from the Center of the West’s Winchester Arms Collection, Kentucky long rifle for this patent. with this pepperbox. design is the first lever-action type firearm. It was a gift of the Olin Corporation, indicated by numbers beginning with “1988.” The design includes percussion designed to fire metallic rimfire cartridges. This pistol caps that explode within the barrel, was the grandfather to the lever-action. It was named the Pair of Harpers Ferry so they can operate in all weather volcanic pistol after Smith and Wesson’s Volcanic Repeating North & Cheney Model 1799 Flintlock Pistol conditions. Arms Company. They sold the production rights of this company to Oliver Model 1805 Smoothbore Winchester in 1855. Cody Firearms Museum. 1988.8.418 First Contract. L.373.2012.9 Pistols, 1806. Harpers Ferry Model L.373.2012.6 & L.373.2012.7 1805 Rifled Flintlock Pistol. Colt Patent, February Porter Turret Rifle, The United States government first Only thirty of more than three 25, 1836, Hartford, July 8, 1851, Memphis, commissioned this pistol with Simeon North and hundred Model 1805 pistols L.373.2012.8 Elisha Cheney of Berlin, Connecticut, in two separate manufactured at Harpers Ferry bear There is only one other rifled Connecticut. L.373.2012.22 Tennessee. L.373.2012.17 contracts. The North & Cheney pistol in the Smithsonian an “1806” stamp; this makes the Model 1805 pistol known. It is on This patent consists of an eight exhibit hung in President Kennedy’s Oval Office. Cody Firearms firearm extremely rare. display at the Jefferson County chamber vertical revolving Museum. 1988.8.249 Museum in West Virginia. cylinder. A canister magazine that contains the charge and ball is on This design was top of the cylinder. G.P. Foster in Belton Fusil Repeating Ellsworth Colt Model Mighill Nutting Patent, Sharps Patent, December the first revolving firearm Taunton, Massachusetts, created Musket, 1758. L.373.2012.2 1860 Army Revolver. April 25, 1838, Portland, ever patented. Controversy four models from this patent. 18, 1849, Washington, DC. over a similar patent, issued by The early model with canister Joseph Belton of Philadelphia, L.373.2012.63 L.373.2012.18 Maine. L.373.2012.25 B.M. Darling in 1836, plagued magazine closely follows the Pennsylvania, developed his .72 Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth of This firearm connects two this invention. A fire destroyed patent. Only two were reported caliber fusil repeating musket in 1758. New York was the first notable cylinders by a central axis pin and the original designs of Darling to have been produced. The first Designed to fire eight musket balls in casualty of the Civil War and a two triggers. Nutting received his before a full investigation could and second models had a nine-shot a row, it acted like a Roman candle martyr for the Union cause. He patent two years after Colt received occur. The Colt’s Patent Fire Arms turret, while the third had an eight- as it ignited a fused chain of charged was killed by an innkeeper in his first revolver patent, and Colt Manufacturing Company, originally in shot turret. This is similar to the musket balls stacked in a single Alexandria, Virginia, for lowering a wanted to sue Nutting for patent Christian Sharps’ Paterson, New Jersey, produced rifles production models found at the Cody barrel and packaged in one paper Confederate flag. Private Francis E. infringement. However, the secretary patent has four and revolvers from this patent. The Firearms Museum. A fictitious story cartridge. While the military initially Brownell avenged Ellsworth’s death of the Colt Manufacturing Company stationary barrels and a single revolvers would become known as surfaced that Porter was killed while commissioned one hundred of these and became one of the first heroes advised him against it. Instead, he revolving hammer that is Paterson revolvers. Colt-Paterson No. demonstrating this model to Samuel muskets, Congress later cancelled the of the Civil War. Brownell donated drove Nutting into obscurity: Colt operated with a lever. Cody 3 Belt Revolver, 1838 – 1839. Cody Colt. The rumor is that this story was commission because they were too this Model 1860 Army Revolver to lowered prices, increased advertising, Firearms Museum. 1988.8.711a Firearms Museum. 1988.8.962 created to make an auction catalog expensive. the National Firearms Collection. and publically threatened challengers more interesting. of Colt’s patents.
This patent opens the breech chamber and This Model 1816 U.S. Morse Patent, October 28, 1856, Contract Musket was adapted to cocks the weapon simultaneously. Morse claimed Breech-loading rifle, patented by G.W. Morse’s breech loading system. Springfield Worchester, Massachusetts. that the firearm was sealed so tightly that the Morse, October 28, 1856, U.S. Patent Armory, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1839, altered number 15,995 G.W. Morse, Worcester, MA, U.S.A. in 1860. Cody Firearms Museum. 1988.8.1508 L.373.2012.45 weapon could be discharged under water. Cody Firearms Museum. 1988.8.1510
8 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 9 The journey continues: moree firearms from the Smithsonian A three-cylinder revolver. Sliding breech chamber. Revolving firearm that uses a chain. A sundial. Two cylinders, a central axis pin, and two triggers. Blunderbuss. McClellan’s British Lang Lord Patent, Smith & Wesson Magazine Lever Action Patent Turkey, Albania, Germany, Japan, North Africa, France, England, and America. Pepperbox Pistol, 1845. June 12, 1860, February 14, 1854. L.373.2012.15 As you’ve read on the previous pages, Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms L.373.2012.12 Minersville, Pennsylvania. from the Smithsonian is a collection of extraordinary and unusual guns, and gun According to American Civil War parts from around the world. Read on for more information about additional L.373.2012.44 General George B. McClellan, the firearms in this exhibit (indicated by ID numbers that begin with “L”). We’ve James Lord altered a Pennsylvania Duke of Wellington presented him Horace Smith’s and Daniel Wesson’s also included images from the Center of the West’s Winchester Arms Collection, Kentucky long rifle for this patent. with this pepperbox. design is the first lever-action type firearm. It was a gift of the Olin Corporation, indicated by numbers beginning with “1988.” The design includes percussion designed to fire metallic rimfire cartridges. This pistol caps that explode within the barrel, was the grandfather to the lever-action. It was named the Pair of Harpers Ferry so they can operate in all weather volcanic pistol after Smith and Wesson’s Volcanic Repeating North & Cheney Model 1799 Flintlock Pistol conditions. Arms Company. They sold the production rights of this company to Oliver Model 1805 Smoothbore Winchester in 1855. Cody Firearms Museum. 1988.8.418 First Contract. L.373.2012.9 Pistols, 1806. Harpers Ferry Model L.373.2012.6 & L.373.2012.7 1805 Rifled Flintlock Pistol. Colt Patent, February Porter Turret Rifle, The United States government first Only thirty of more than three 25, 1836, Hartford, July 8, 1851, Memphis, commissioned this pistol with Simeon North and hundred Model 1805 pistols L.373.2012.8 Elisha Cheney of Berlin, Connecticut, in two separate manufactured at Harpers Ferry bear There is only one other rifled Connecticut. L.373.2012.22 Tennessee. L.373.2012.17 contracts. The North & Cheney pistol in the Smithsonian an “1806” stamp; this makes the Model 1805 pistol known. It is on This patent consists of an eight exhibit hung in President Kennedy’s Oval Office. Cody Firearms firearm extremely rare. display at the Jefferson County chamber vertical revolving Museum. 1988.8.249 Museum in West Virginia. cylinder. A canister magazine that contains the charge and ball is on This design was top of the cylinder. G.P. Foster in Belton Fusil Repeating Ellsworth Colt Model Mighill Nutting Patent, Sharps Patent, December the first revolving firearm Taunton, Massachusetts, created Musket, 1758. L.373.2012.2 1860 Army Revolver. April 25, 1838, Portland, ever patented. Controversy four models from this patent. 18, 1849, Washington, DC. over a similar patent, issued by The early model with canister Joseph Belton of Philadelphia, L.373.2012.63 L.373.2012.18 Maine. L.373.2012.25 B.M. Darling in 1836, plagued magazine closely follows the Pennsylvania, developed his .72 Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth of This firearm connects two this invention. A fire destroyed patent. Only two were reported caliber fusil repeating musket in 1758. New York was the first notable cylinders by a central axis pin and the original designs of Darling to have been produced. The first Designed to fire eight musket balls in casualty of the Civil War and a two triggers. Nutting received his before a full investigation could and second models had a nine-shot a row, it acted like a Roman candle martyr for the Union cause. He patent two years after Colt received occur. The Colt’s Patent Fire Arms turret, while the third had an eight- as it ignited a fused chain of charged was killed by an innkeeper in his first revolver patent, and Colt Manufacturing Company, originally in shot turret. This is similar to the musket balls stacked in a single Alexandria, Virginia, for lowering a wanted to sue Nutting for patent Christian Sharps’ Paterson, New Jersey, produced rifles production models found at the Cody barrel and packaged in one paper Confederate flag. Private Francis E. infringement. However, the secretary patent has four and revolvers from this patent. The Firearms Museum. A fictitious story cartridge. While the military initially Brownell avenged Ellsworth’s death of the Colt Manufacturing Company stationary barrels and a single revolvers would become known as surfaced that Porter was killed while commissioned one hundred of these and became one of the first heroes advised him against it. Instead, he revolving hammer that is Paterson revolvers. Colt-Paterson No. demonstrating this model to Samuel muskets, Congress later cancelled the of the Civil War. Brownell donated drove Nutting into obscurity: Colt operated with a lever. Cody 3 Belt Revolver, 1838 – 1839. Cody Colt. The rumor is that this story was commission because they were too this Model 1860 Army Revolver to lowered prices, increased advertising, Firearms Museum. 1988.8.711a Firearms Museum. 1988.8.962 created to make an auction catalog expensive. the National Firearms Collection. and publically threatened challengers more interesting. of Colt’s patents.
This patent opens the breech chamber and This Model 1816 U.S. Morse Patent, October 28, 1856, Contract Musket was adapted to cocks the weapon simultaneously. Morse claimed Breech-loading rifle, patented by G.W. Morse’s breech loading system. Springfield Worchester, Massachusetts. that the firearm was sealed so tightly that the Morse, October 28, 1856, U.S. Patent Armory, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1839, altered number 15,995 G.W. Morse, Worcester, MA, U.S.A. in 1860. Cody Firearms Museum. 1988.8.1508 L.373.2012.45 weapon could be discharged under water. Cody Firearms Museum. 1988.8.1510
8 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 9 It was a warm summer morning. The sun was coming up over the Big Horn Mountains, and its rays were just reaching the cliff where the magnificent golden eagle stood. She had a commanding view of northeastern Wyoming stretching all the way to the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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he eagle let the warmth her seven-foot wingspan and sped found the carcass. A few ravens Powder River area outside Gillette, Eagle feather lance, ca. 1900. Frederic Remington studio. Gift of The Coe of the rays wash over her, toward the ground at a 45 degree and crows had gathered, but they Wyoming, and resulted in Foundation. 1.67.470 slowly moving across her angle. The rabbit was in her sights were no match for a golden eagle. a severe fracture of her feet and up her body until the with its back to her. As she drew Finally, she descended and landed right humerus (upper feathersT on the back of her neck closer, she threw her powerful feet a few feet from the deer, and the wing bone). Kateri is glistened like gold. She slowly raised out in front of her body, ready to corvids immediately scattered. She one of the lucky ones, her feathers and shook her whole strike. A moment before impact the walked to the deer and began to however, because she received body vigorously. A cloud of dust rabbit spotted the eagle and dove feed. Glancing over her shoulder care for her injuries. The majority and dander surrounded her. It was into a nearby hole. The eagle hit the occasionally, she made quick work of wild animals who are injured a morning like any other. Nothing ground with a thud, sending a cloud of a hind leg. are killed instantly or are never extraordinary for the eagle, but her of dust into the air. No cottontail for When she’d eaten her fill, she discovered and die of their stomach was telling her it was time breakfast today. spread her wings, ready for the injuries. to look for food. After a moment of rest, the eagle flight back to her cliff perch. But, The amazing people at With one smooth motion, she launched herself back into the air to the meal weighed her down, and Northeast Wyoming (NEW) opened her wings and launched her find a new hunting spot. From the it was much more difficult to take Bird Rescue and Rehab picked massive body off the cliff into the immense height of a power pole, to the air. She turned her thirteen- up and cared for Kateri. wind. Gliding lazily along the ridge, she would have a great view of any pound body into the wind to gain Once at the rehabilitation she scanned the valley below for critters moving below. She landed at lift. She heard the familiar roar of center, the staff examined signs of movement. What would the peak of a pole, glanced around a passing vehicle. The sound grew and stabilized the eagle be on today’s menu? A jackrabbit quickly to rule out the approach of louder and louder. until she could be seen by a would be wonderful, but she hadn’t another eagle, and began scanning Whack! veterinarian. Due to the severity seen many lately. A cottontail might the ground again. In that one moment, the golden of the fracture in her wing, the vet be nearly as tasty. She landed Several hours passed with no eagle’s life changed forever. She performed surgery and placed a pin gracefully on a small hill that significant hunting opportunity. would never again fly free over the in the long bone to support the break allowed for a great view of the area. She had even moved to different open spaces of Wyoming. as it healed. During her recovery, Unfortunately, she could see no locations, hoping the prospects Unfortunately, this is a story that she received meals to increase her movement so she waited patiently would be better. Finally, she spotted comes true far too often across strength, shelter to protect her from for her prey to expose itself. a potential meal: a mule deer several not only Wyoming, but throughout the elements and predators, and Soon she spotted a cottontail hundred yards away. It was not the world as well. This is the story medications to control pain and creeping along the prairie, darting moving as it had recently collided of Kateri, a golden eagle, and the infection. between patches of sagebrush for with a car and would make a very newest “Avian Ambassador” for Finally, the day came to remove cover. Again, the eagle took to the air, easy meal indeed. It wasn’t a great the Greater Yellowstone Raptor the pin from her wing and begin flapping laboriously to gain altitude find, but it was a meal nonetheless. Experience. physical therapy to rebuild her and the perfect position from which She moved to a power pole As the story suggests, a semi-truck muscles in preparation for returning to sneak up on the rabbit. When the closer to the deer and surveyed smacked into Kateri. The collision to the wild. Rebuilding muscle is Dr. Charles R. Preston with the Center’s newest raptor, a golden eagle moment was right, she tucked in the area. No other predators had occurred along Interstate-90 in the not easy, and the staff at NEW named Kateri.
10 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 11 It was a warm summer morning. The sun was coming up over the Big Horn Mountains, and its rays were just reaching the cliff where the magnificent golden eagle stood. She had a commanding view of northeastern Wyoming stretching all the way to the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Kateri:goodBy Melissaas Hill gold :
he eagle let the warmth her seven-foot wingspan and sped found the carcass. A few ravens Powder River area outside Gillette, Eagle feather lance, ca. 1900. Frederic Remington studio. Gift of The Coe of the rays wash over her, toward the ground at a 45 degree and crows had gathered, but they Wyoming, and resulted in Foundation. 1.67.470 slowly moving across her angle. The rabbit was in her sights were no match for a golden eagle. a severe fracture of her feet and up her body until the with its back to her. As she drew Finally, she descended and landed right humerus (upper feathersT on the back of her neck closer, she threw her powerful feet a few feet from the deer, and the wing bone). Kateri is glistened like gold. She slowly raised out in front of her body, ready to corvids immediately scattered. She one of the lucky ones, her feathers and shook her whole strike. A moment before impact the walked to the deer and began to however, because she received body vigorously. A cloud of dust rabbit spotted the eagle and dove feed. Glancing over her shoulder care for her injuries. The majority and dander surrounded her. It was into a nearby hole. The eagle hit the occasionally, she made quick work of wild animals who are injured a morning like any other. Nothing ground with a thud, sending a cloud of a hind leg. are killed instantly or are never extraordinary for the eagle, but her of dust into the air. No cottontail for When she’d eaten her fill, she discovered and die of their stomach was telling her it was time breakfast today. spread her wings, ready for the injuries. to look for food. After a moment of rest, the eagle flight back to her cliff perch. But, The amazing people at With one smooth motion, she launched herself back into the air to the meal weighed her down, and Northeast Wyoming (NEW) opened her wings and launched her find a new hunting spot. From the it was much more difficult to take Bird Rescue and Rehab picked massive body off the cliff into the immense height of a power pole, to the air. She turned her thirteen- up and cared for Kateri. wind. Gliding lazily along the ridge, she would have a great view of any pound body into the wind to gain Once at the rehabilitation she scanned the valley below for critters moving below. She landed at lift. She heard the familiar roar of center, the staff examined signs of movement. What would the peak of a pole, glanced around a passing vehicle. The sound grew and stabilized the eagle be on today’s menu? A jackrabbit quickly to rule out the approach of louder and louder. until she could be seen by a would be wonderful, but she hadn’t another eagle, and began scanning Whack! veterinarian. Due to the severity seen many lately. A cottontail might the ground again. In that one moment, the golden of the fracture in her wing, the vet be nearly as tasty. She landed Several hours passed with no eagle’s life changed forever. She performed surgery and placed a pin gracefully on a small hill that significant hunting opportunity. would never again fly free over the in the long bone to support the break allowed for a great view of the area. She had even moved to different open spaces of Wyoming. as it healed. During her recovery, Unfortunately, she could see no locations, hoping the prospects Unfortunately, this is a story that she received meals to increase her movement so she waited patiently would be better. Finally, she spotted comes true far too often across strength, shelter to protect her from for her prey to expose itself. a potential meal: a mule deer several not only Wyoming, but throughout the elements and predators, and Soon she spotted a cottontail hundred yards away. It was not the world as well. This is the story medications to control pain and creeping along the prairie, darting moving as it had recently collided of Kateri, a golden eagle, and the infection. between patches of sagebrush for with a car and would make a very newest “Avian Ambassador” for Finally, the day came to remove cover. Again, the eagle took to the air, easy meal indeed. It wasn’t a great the Greater Yellowstone Raptor the pin from her wing and begin flapping laboriously to gain altitude find, but it was a meal nonetheless. Experience. physical therapy to rebuild her and the perfect position from which She moved to a power pole As the story suggests, a semi-truck muscles in preparation for returning to sneak up on the rabbit. When the closer to the deer and surveyed smacked into Kateri. The collision to the wild. Rebuilding muscle is Dr. Charles R. Preston with the Center’s newest raptor, a golden eagle moment was right, she tucked in the area. No other predators had occurred along Interstate-90 in the not easy, and the staff at NEW named Kateri.
10 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 11 Kateri:good as gold As it turns out, that day of pick up our new bird on January Bird Rescue and Rehab watched we were looking for, what kind “thinking it over” was more for 21, 2013. Diane was gracious Kateri closely, ever hopeful that she of housing we had lined up for an Diane than for me. Like any good enough to meet us in Buffalo, would fly farther and farther, and eagle, and how much and what type rehabber, she wanted to make Wyoming, and give us a little higher and higher in the flight barn. of experience I had with eagles. sure that the bird she had rescued more information about the bird’s Unfortunately, that did not happen. International Wildlife Rehabilitators We had two options for our and cared for over the last several journey from the wild to this point. She could fly from one five-foot Council Web site, hoping to discover eagle: either a small, second-year months would be going to a great True to her caring and protective tall perch to another perch of the the perfect bird for our program. male who had suffered severe head home. Luckily for us, the folks nature, Diane made me promise Isham same height twenty feet away, but Finally, in late October 2012, trauma, or a very mellow adult she talked to about me and our to be patient and take good care she couldn’t move any higher. The I saw a posting for a golden eagle female with a fractured humerus. program had only good things to of this amazing animal as she was realization hit: While the fracture from our rehabber here in town— Diane suggested I think it over and say. By November 2, 2012, we truly something special. As she had healed nicely, there was too Ironside Bird Rescue! I immediately give her a call back in a couple days. agreed that the female golden carefully moved the eagle from her much damage to the muscle and called owner Susan to inquire about At first glance, the male appeared eagle was ours. Now, I just had to vehicle to ours, Diane told Kateri, tissue in the wing for her to regain the eagle, but she already had two to be the better choice. None of convince the U.S. Fish and Wildlife “Be patient with them, they’re flight. Kateri could never be released other programs interested in this our volunteers had ever worked Service (USFWS) that it was a great only human.” back into the wild. particular bird. The odds of this with an eagle, and a female eagle match, too. Kateri has now been with us for At the same time, we here at transfer falling through twice were can weigh up to fourteen pounds I quickly added the last bits of seven months and it has been an Kateri the Greater Yellowstone Raptor pretty slim. Luckily, Susan informed while a male is typically only eight information to the USFWS Eagle incredible journey. She received her Experience of the Buffalo Bill Center me that her rehabber-friend in or nine pounds. Simply put: A Exhibition Permit Application and beautiful and fitting name through of the West had pretty much given up Gillette had a couple of golden male would be easier on our arms! reviewed it one last time. I had a worldwide online contest. Her the dream of having a golden eagle eagles that were not going to be A female, however, is bigger and worked on this application for a name means “child of nature” for our program. They are extremely releasable, and I should contact her more impressive on the glove, but year and a half in anticipation of and brings to mind the first Native difficult to acquire because every at NEW Bird Rescue. the size definitely can be harder to getting an eagle. Finally, in early American saint of the same name. program like ours wants one, and I immediately called NEW Bird handle. Still, the decision was easy November, I dropped the eighteen- She is doing amazingly well in her very few rehabilitation centers to inquire about the eagles. After an for me: Even though her weight page application in the mail…and training. Since her arrival, we have have golden eagles that they are exchange of messages and missed might be a challenge, I would the waiting began. moved at her pace, never asking trying to place in permanent returned calls, I was finally able to rather have a large, mellow bird After two months of agonized her to do more than she could homes. Every day, I searched the speak to staffer Diane about the than a smaller one who might have Teasdale waiting, we finally received word handle or that with which she was animal placement postings on the eagles she had. She asked what issues due to head trauma. on our application. I expected a uncomfortable. Surprisingly, she’s reply stating that they would be coming along quite quickly. She’s finishing it soon, and that they completely comfortable in her would get back to me. Instead, new home, steps onto my glove the reply simply stated that our very willingly and gently, and now approved permit and transfer works with the volunteers as well. papers were attached, with hard Kateri now makes appearances copies to follow in the mail. in public—she is the “grand finale” I stared in shock for a few of our summer programming. Like minutes. Finally, I picked up all the birds here at the Center, Hayabusa the phone with a shaking hand Kateri has a very important role and called my boss, Dr. Charles as an ambassador for her species. Preston, to give him the good These birds represent the power, news. He was as ecstatic as I was— beauty, wildness, and true spirit of possibly more so—as he’d been the West, and although they can no waiting for this moment since he longer be free, we hope that spirit is began planning the Draper Natural contagious and inspires everyone History Museum in 1998. who sees them to take a moment A couple more phone calls to appreciate what Mother Nature Melissa Hill and Kateri followed, and we had arranged to has to offer. Suli
12 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 13 Kateri:good as gold As it turns out, that day of pick up our new bird on January Bird Rescue and Rehab watched we were looking for, what kind “thinking it over” was more for 21, 2013. Diane was gracious Kateri closely, ever hopeful that she of housing we had lined up for an Diane than for me. Like any good enough to meet us in Buffalo, would fly farther and farther, and eagle, and how much and what type rehabber, she wanted to make Wyoming, and give us a little higher and higher in the flight barn. of experience I had with eagles. sure that the bird she had rescued more information about the bird’s Unfortunately, that did not happen. International Wildlife Rehabilitators We had two options for our and cared for over the last several journey from the wild to this point. She could fly from one five-foot Council Web site, hoping to discover eagle: either a small, second-year months would be going to a great True to her caring and protective tall perch to another perch of the the perfect bird for our program. male who had suffered severe head home. Luckily for us, the folks nature, Diane made me promise Isham same height twenty feet away, but Finally, in late October 2012, trauma, or a very mellow adult she talked to about me and our to be patient and take good care she couldn’t move any higher. The I saw a posting for a golden eagle female with a fractured humerus. program had only good things to of this amazing animal as she was realization hit: While the fracture from our rehabber here in town— Diane suggested I think it over and say. By November 2, 2012, we truly something special. As she had healed nicely, there was too Ironside Bird Rescue! I immediately give her a call back in a couple days. agreed that the female golden carefully moved the eagle from her much damage to the muscle and called owner Susan to inquire about At first glance, the male appeared eagle was ours. Now, I just had to vehicle to ours, Diane told Kateri, tissue in the wing for her to regain the eagle, but she already had two to be the better choice. None of convince the U.S. Fish and Wildlife “Be patient with them, they’re flight. Kateri could never be released other programs interested in this our volunteers had ever worked Service (USFWS) that it was a great only human.” back into the wild. particular bird. The odds of this with an eagle, and a female eagle match, too. Kateri has now been with us for At the same time, we here at transfer falling through twice were can weigh up to fourteen pounds I quickly added the last bits of seven months and it has been an Kateri the Greater Yellowstone Raptor pretty slim. Luckily, Susan informed while a male is typically only eight information to the USFWS Eagle incredible journey. She received her Experience of the Buffalo Bill Center me that her rehabber-friend in or nine pounds. Simply put: A Exhibition Permit Application and beautiful and fitting name through of the West had pretty much given up Gillette had a couple of golden male would be easier on our arms! reviewed it one last time. I had a worldwide online contest. Her the dream of having a golden eagle eagles that were not going to be A female, however, is bigger and worked on this application for a name means “child of nature” for our program. They are extremely releasable, and I should contact her more impressive on the glove, but year and a half in anticipation of and brings to mind the first Native difficult to acquire because every at NEW Bird Rescue. the size definitely can be harder to getting an eagle. Finally, in early American saint of the same name. program like ours wants one, and I immediately called NEW Bird handle. Still, the decision was easy November, I dropped the eighteen- She is doing amazingly well in her very few rehabilitation centers to inquire about the eagles. After an for me: Even though her weight page application in the mail…and training. Since her arrival, we have have golden eagles that they are exchange of messages and missed might be a challenge, I would the waiting began. moved at her pace, never asking trying to place in permanent returned calls, I was finally able to rather have a large, mellow bird After two months of agonized her to do more than she could homes. Every day, I searched the speak to staffer Diane about the than a smaller one who might have Teasdale waiting, we finally received word handle or that with which she was animal placement postings on the eagles she had. She asked what issues due to head trauma. on our application. I expected a uncomfortable. Surprisingly, she’s reply stating that they would be coming along quite quickly. She’s finishing it soon, and that they completely comfortable in her would get back to me. Instead, new home, steps onto my glove the reply simply stated that our very willingly and gently, and now approved permit and transfer works with the volunteers as well. papers were attached, with hard Kateri now makes appearances copies to follow in the mail. in public—she is the “grand finale” I stared in shock for a few of our summer programming. Like minutes. Finally, I picked up all the birds here at the Center, Hayabusa the phone with a shaking hand Kateri has a very important role and called my boss, Dr. Charles as an ambassador for her species. Preston, to give him the good These birds represent the power, news. He was as ecstatic as I was— beauty, wildness, and true spirit of possibly more so—as he’d been the West, and although they can no waiting for this moment since he longer be free, we hope that spirit is began planning the Draper Natural contagious and inspires everyone History Museum in 1998. who sees them to take a moment A couple more phone calls to appreciate what Mother Nature Melissa Hill and Kateri followed, and we had arranged to has to offer. Suli
12 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 13 Center of the West Bits & Bytes Center of the West Bits & Bytes &HQWHURIWKH:HVWHDUQV7ULS$GYLVRU&HUWLÀFDWHRI([FHOOHQFH Center curator receives grants to study the work of
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West for our visitors. Because of their hard naturalists Olaus and Adolph Murie has just learned that we are a recipient work, the people who interact with Buffalo Bill Center of the West Curator who spent much of their careers in of TripAdvisor’s 2013 Certificate of us—in person or online—get to know of Western History, Dr. John Rumm, wildlife research and management in Excellence award. The accolade is the American West in a personal and has received the 2013 Joseph M. Carey Wyoming, especially at Grand Teton presented only to businesses that meaningful way. These individuals’ Research Fellowship, awarded annually and Yellowstone.” He notes that while consistently achieve outstanding votes of confidence through 664 by the American Heritage Center at the much scholarship work exists on the traveler reviews on the travel Web reviews to date—561 of which are University of Wyoming. Rumm will use Muries’ research in Alaska, their wildlife site TripAdvisor and is extended to ‘excellent’—are evidence that we’re the $2,500 grant to study the wildlife research in Wyoming and other areas qualifying businesses worldwide. achieving our goal of helping visitors research, management work, and in the American West has received less Only the top-performing 10 percent connect with the American West.” writings of brothers Olaus and Adolph attention. of businesses listed on TripAdvisor TripAdvisor is the world’s largest Murie in Wyoming and other parts of Rumm plans to produce two receive this prestigious award. travel Web site, and its branded sites the West. Rumm is also the recipient monographs: a dual biography of the To qualify for a Certificate of make up the largest travel community of a $750 Lola Homsher research grant lives and careers of the Muries, as well Excellence, businesses must maintain in the world, with more than 200 from the Wyoming Historical Society as the development of the wildlife an overall rating of four or higher, million unique monthly visitors and for the same project. profession, 1920s – 1950s. As research from a possible five, as reviewed by more than 100 million reviews and According to Rumm, the Muries naturalists and leaders in the is completed, Rumm expects to begin travellers on TripAdvisor.com and opinions. Stephen Kaufer, President were “prominent twentieth-century American environmental movement, presenting his findings later this year. must have been listed on TripAdvisor “We are delighted with the TripAdvisor and CEO of TripAdvisor wrote that, for at least twelve months. Additional award,” says Bruce Eldredge, Executive “At TripAdvisor, we understand the Win this Buffalo Bill-inspired jacket criteria include the volume of reviews Director and CEO of the Center of the power of traveler reviews—and today William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody knew pockets, front, and cuffs with long received within the last twelve months. West. “It is due to the tireless efforts of we’re proud to recognize Buffalo Bill a thing or two about “bling.” We’re sure fringe on the sleeves and shoulders. The Center of the West is the top-rated our staff that we’ve received this honor; Center of the West for the exceptional his embroidered and fringed jackets The late silversmith Roger Miller attraction in Cody according to visitor we congratulate them for all they do feedback you’ve earned from travelers for his Wild West show captured created the jacket’s sterling silver reviews on TripAdvisor. to create an extraordinary experience over the past year.” considerable attention—even among buffalo buttons. This hand-crafted and the colorful performers. designed leatherwork is a ladies size Leather artist Jan Faulkner of medium and valued at $3,000. Ramseur, North Carolina, says that Tickets are $10 each or six for 3DWURQV%DOOUHVHUYDWLRQVFORVH what she creates “is meant to be $50; you can purchase them at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West members and donors worn, lived in, danced in, and Center’s admission desk, in the received invitations to this year’s Rendezvous Royale events— filled with a life”—including museum store, or online at including Patrons Ball commemorating the 100th anniversary her own version of that www.centerofthewest.org. of Camp Monaco—only to discover that the Ball is already Buffalo Bill show jacket- The drawing is sold out! If you would like to be placed on the waiting list style, one of the raffle September 21, 2013, and should there be cancellations, please prizes at this year’s ticket holders need not contact [email protected] Patrons Ball. The be present to win. All or call 307.578.4021. extraordinary tan, proceeds benefit the Looking for another way to lambskin woman’s educational programs of support the Center? Participate in our jacket has fringed the Buffalo Bill Center car raffle (see back page) or jacket and embellished of the West. raffle (opposite). Check out www.rendezvousroyale.org William F. Cody buckskin jacket, Gift of Robert F. Garland. 1.69.776 for all the great activities ca. 1890. in Cody during this “immerse yourself in the arts” event. Name change. Prince of Monaco. Patrons Ball. Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection. Right: William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and the Prince of Monaco Wielgus firearms exhibit. Watch for our special combination fall/winter issue with these stories and much on Sheridan Avenue in Cody, The Camp Monaco tree on loan from the more, arriving at your mailbox in November. Wyoming, 1913. P.69.1611 Shoshone National Forest. L.28.91.20
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The Buffalo Bill Center of the West for our visitors. Because of their hard naturalists Olaus and Adolph Murie has just learned that we are a recipient work, the people who interact with Buffalo Bill Center of the West Curator who spent much of their careers in of TripAdvisor’s 2013 Certificate of us—in person or online—get to know of Western History, Dr. John Rumm, wildlife research and management in Excellence award. The accolade is the American West in a personal and has received the 2013 Joseph M. Carey Wyoming, especially at Grand Teton presented only to businesses that meaningful way. These individuals’ Research Fellowship, awarded annually and Yellowstone.” He notes that while consistently achieve outstanding votes of confidence through 664 by the American Heritage Center at the much scholarship work exists on the traveler reviews on the travel Web reviews to date—561 of which are University of Wyoming. Rumm will use Muries’ research in Alaska, their wildlife site TripAdvisor and is extended to ‘excellent’—are evidence that we’re the $2,500 grant to study the wildlife research in Wyoming and other areas qualifying businesses worldwide. achieving our goal of helping visitors research, management work, and in the American West has received less Only the top-performing 10 percent connect with the American West.” writings of brothers Olaus and Adolph attention. of businesses listed on TripAdvisor TripAdvisor is the world’s largest Murie in Wyoming and other parts of Rumm plans to produce two receive this prestigious award. travel Web site, and its branded sites the West. Rumm is also the recipient monographs: a dual biography of the To qualify for a Certificate of make up the largest travel community of a $750 Lola Homsher research grant lives and careers of the Muries, as well Excellence, businesses must maintain in the world, with more than 200 from the Wyoming Historical Society as the development of the wildlife an overall rating of four or higher, million unique monthly visitors and for the same project. profession, 1920s – 1950s. As research from a possible five, as reviewed by more than 100 million reviews and According to Rumm, the Muries naturalists and leaders in the is completed, Rumm expects to begin travellers on TripAdvisor.com and opinions. Stephen Kaufer, President were “prominent twentieth-century American environmental movement, presenting his findings later this year. must have been listed on TripAdvisor “We are delighted with the TripAdvisor and CEO of TripAdvisor wrote that, for at least twelve months. Additional award,” says Bruce Eldredge, Executive “At TripAdvisor, we understand the Win this Buffalo Bill-inspired jacket criteria include the volume of reviews Director and CEO of the Center of the power of traveler reviews—and today William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody knew pockets, front, and cuffs with long received within the last twelve months. West. “It is due to the tireless efforts of we’re proud to recognize Buffalo Bill a thing or two about “bling.” We’re sure fringe on the sleeves and shoulders. The Center of the West is the top-rated our staff that we’ve received this honor; Center of the West for the exceptional his embroidered and fringed jackets The late silversmith Roger Miller attraction in Cody according to visitor we congratulate them for all they do feedback you’ve earned from travelers for his Wild West show captured created the jacket’s sterling silver reviews on TripAdvisor. to create an extraordinary experience over the past year.” considerable attention—even among buffalo buttons. This hand-crafted and the colorful performers. designed leatherwork is a ladies size Leather artist Jan Faulkner of medium and valued at $3,000. Ramseur, North Carolina, says that Tickets are $10 each or six for 3DWURQV%DOOUHVHUYDWLRQVFORVH what she creates “is meant to be $50; you can purchase them at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West members and donors worn, lived in, danced in, and Center’s admission desk, in the received invitations to this year’s Rendezvous Royale events— filled with a life”—including museum store, or online at including Patrons Ball commemorating the 100th anniversary her own version of that www.centerofthewest.org. of Camp Monaco—only to discover that the Ball is already Buffalo Bill show jacket- The drawing is sold out! If you would like to be placed on the waiting list style, one of the raffle September 21, 2013, and should there be cancellations, please prizes at this year’s ticket holders need not contact [email protected] Patrons Ball. The be present to win. All or call 307.578.4021. extraordinary tan, proceeds benefit the Looking for another way to lambskin woman’s educational programs of support the Center? Participate in our jacket has fringed the Buffalo Bill Center car raffle (see back page) or jacket and embellished of the West. raffle (opposite). Check out www.rendezvousroyale.org William F. Cody buckskin jacket, Gift of Robert F. Garland. 1.69.776 for all the great activities ca. 1890. in Cody during this “immerse yourself in the arts” event. Name change. Prince of Monaco. Patrons Ball. Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection. Right: William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and the Prince of Monaco Wielgus firearms exhibit. Watch for our special combination fall/winter issue with these stories and much on Sheridan Avenue in Cody, The Camp Monaco tree on loan from the more, arriving at your mailbox in November. Wyoming, 1913. P.69.1611 Shoshone National Forest. L.28.91.20
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Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Preview Exhibition On view August 21 – September 20
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Curator’s Choice: Audubon and Friends Cody High Style Fashion Boot, Scoot ‘n Boogie Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Shows / Cody Auditorium, Downtown Cody Dinner and auction Quick Draw, 9 a.m. $ 5:30 & 7 p.m. $ 4 – 8 p.m. 6:30 p.m. $ —— 15 Karl Bodmer16 Prints: Images of North America17 18 19 20 21Patrons Ball, 6 p.m. $
Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Preview Exhibition On view August 21 – September 20
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Draper Natural History Museum OCTOBER Lunchtime Expedition The Challenges of Success: Bear Management in Grand Teton National Park Sue Consolo-Murphy, 12:15 p.m. 293012345
Buffalo Gals Luncheon $ CFM Records Office has a table at 11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Ohio Gun Collectors Association Speaker: Greater Yellowstone Show in Columbus, Ohio Raptor Experience’s Melissa Hill with Golden Eagle Kateri Advanced reservations encouraged 6789101112
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27 28 29 30 31 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily November 1 – 30 $ Denotes additional fee required. IT’S A DATE ... pullout calendar Buffalo Bill Center of the West Buffalo Bill Center of the West Board of Trustees remembers Cort Dietler Resolution of appreciation and fond remembrance – September 26, 2008 Smart. Savvy. Wise. Honest. Forthright. Compassionate. Generous. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West Board of Trustees and Development Department Oilman. Entrepreneur. Wit. Trailblazer. Leader. Legend. are deeply honored and humbled by the recent legacy gift left to the Center by the estate The descriptions fit to the proverbial “T.” of Cortlandt S. “Cort” Dietler. This planned gift will be instrumental in the institution’s But even more so, this: Gentleman and Friend. long-range planning—ensuring that future generations have the opportunity to Cortlandt Scoville “Cort” Dietler experience and interpret the authentic stories of the American West that Cort so loved. September 19, 1921 – July 10, 2008. Read more about Cort Dietler in the story that follows, and learn more about your own legacy Whereas, at www.bbhclegacy.org or by calling the Development Department at 307-578-4013. The Denver native insisted he wasn’t a cowboy— pon receiving the 2007 and community awards including the Although he owned a racehorse or two and some cattle before it was trendy— Citizen of the West Award by Denver Petroleum Club’s Oil Man of The National Western Stock Show begged to differ the National Western Stock the Year; Pioneer Oil Man of the Year; And named him its 2007 Citizen of the West. U “He illustrates the spirit and determination of the Western pioneer Show in Denver, Cortlandt “Cort” Colorado Petroleum Association Man Dietler quipped, “I’d like to thank my of the Year; Honorary Doctorate of And who is committed to perpetuating those Western ethics.” wife, Martha, and associates past and Business, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Cort put it a different way: “They have no better choice at this time.” present who’ve helped me get to where Michigan; Colorado Business Hall Whereas, I am today—wherever that is.” of Fame; Distinguished Alumnus Some said, “He started or bought companies every year or two And Dietler’s “wherever-that-is,” from the University of Tulsa; and Like most people buy suits and ties,” according to the Denver Post, was Mizel Museum’s Community Cultural Cort’s gut instinct was fine-tuned; his business acumen unparalleled. being labeled “a serial entrepreneur… Enrichment Award. He was involved with more than thirty companies, explaining, viewed in petroleum circles as a Born in Denver in 1921, Dietler’s “I couldn’t hold a job, so I decided I’d have to create my own,” near-legendary figure who helped Cortlandt S. “Cort” Dietler family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Including TransMontaigne, which moves oil “from Point A to Point B.” build Denver’s reputation as a major early 2007, when the intensely private he was 10 years old. He graduated from corporate energy center.” man was asked about the key to his Culver Military Academy in Indiana and Whereas, For the Buffalo Bill Center of the success, he responded, “Staying out served in World War II with the U.S. He worked just as hard for his community as for his business, West, Dietler was a noble friend. of jail. That’s helpful.” Ever the wit, he Army Corps of Engineers from 1942 A host of organizations benefited from his charity: Indeed, Alan K. Simpson, former was also the consummate nice guy. – 1945, commanding a transportation The arts with the Denver Art Museum, U.S. Senator from Wyoming and Among his accomplishments are company responsible for delivering History with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and the Colorado Historical Foundation, former chairman of the Center’s board helping to found the city of Vail, fuel to combat units in North Africa, Education in the Culver Educational Foundation and the University of Tulsa, of trustees, called his longtime friend Colorado; serving on the boards of the Italy, France, and Germany. After the The infirmed with the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation, a great human being. “Cort was the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, war, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Kids with the Boy Scouts of America, to whom he directed memorials, most generous guy—with his time, University of Tulsa, and Denver Area history and political science from the And the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. his friendship, his treasure, his talent. Council of the Boy Scouts of America; University of Tulsa in 1947. He flew under the radar. He did things generously contributing to the Denver Dietler’s wife of sixty years, Martha, Whereas, On his appointment to the Board of Trustees ten years ago, we’ll never find out about.” Art Museum; and being named “2007 passed away in 2012. The Trustees Cort announced, “For what little I can offer, I would be honored to contribute.” Dietler was involved in some thirty Citizen of the West” by the National of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West And contribute he did—on an extraordinary scale: companies, and in 1995, he founded Western Stock Show, a group for which adopted the resolution on the opposite Capital campaign. Posse. Annual Fund. Conservation. Acquisitions. Member. TransMontaigne, Inc., a fuel storage he was a past director. page to commemorate Dietler’s loyalty As we came to know and hold in our hearts Cortlandt Dietler, and transport company in Denver. In Dietler won numerous industry to the Center. We learned what Dwight Eisenhower meant as he said, “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, Of getting along with people, of getting things done.” We’re sure Cort would have agreed.
In his memory, and in appreciation for his life of service, we, the Board of Trustees of the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association, do approve this resolution in fond remembrance of our friend and fellow Trustee, Cort Dietler. William Jacob Hays, Sr. (1830–1875). A Herd of Bison Crossing the Missouri River, 1863. Oil on canvas. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust Fund Purchase. 3.60 (detail)
18 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 19 Buffalo Bill Center of the West Buffalo Bill Center of the West Board of Trustees remembers Cort Dietler Resolution of appreciation and fond remembrance – September 26, 2008 Smart. Savvy. Wise. Honest. Forthright. Compassionate. Generous. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West Board of Trustees and Development Department Oilman. Entrepreneur. Wit. Trailblazer. Leader. Legend. are deeply honored and humbled by the recent legacy gift left to the Center by the estate The descriptions fit to the proverbial “T.” of Cortlandt S. “Cort” Dietler. This planned gift will be instrumental in the institution’s But even more so, this: Gentleman and Friend. long-range planning—ensuring that future generations have the opportunity to Cortlandt Scoville “Cort” Dietler experience and interpret the authentic stories of the American West that Cort so loved. September 19, 1921 – July 10, 2008. Read more about Cort Dietler in the story that follows, and learn more about your own legacy Whereas, at www.bbhclegacy.org or by calling the Development Department at 307-578-4013. The Denver native insisted he wasn’t a cowboy— pon receiving the 2007 and community awards including the Although he owned a racehorse or two and some cattle before it was trendy— Citizen of the West Award by Denver Petroleum Club’s Oil Man of The National Western Stock Show begged to differ the National Western Stock the Year; Pioneer Oil Man of the Year; And named him its 2007 Citizen of the West. U “He illustrates the spirit and determination of the Western pioneer Show in Denver, Cortlandt “Cort” Colorado Petroleum Association Man Dietler quipped, “I’d like to thank my of the Year; Honorary Doctorate of And who is committed to perpetuating those Western ethics.” wife, Martha, and associates past and Business, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Cort put it a different way: “They have no better choice at this time.” present who’ve helped me get to where Michigan; Colorado Business Hall Whereas, I am today—wherever that is.” of Fame; Distinguished Alumnus Some said, “He started or bought companies every year or two And Dietler’s “wherever-that-is,” from the University of Tulsa; and Like most people buy suits and ties,” according to the Denver Post, was Mizel Museum’s Community Cultural Cort’s gut instinct was fine-tuned; his business acumen unparalleled. being labeled “a serial entrepreneur… Enrichment Award. He was involved with more than thirty companies, explaining, viewed in petroleum circles as a Born in Denver in 1921, Dietler’s “I couldn’t hold a job, so I decided I’d have to create my own,” near-legendary figure who helped Cortlandt S. “Cort” Dietler family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Including TransMontaigne, which moves oil “from Point A to Point B.” build Denver’s reputation as a major early 2007, when the intensely private he was 10 years old. He graduated from corporate energy center.” man was asked about the key to his Culver Military Academy in Indiana and Whereas, For the Buffalo Bill Center of the success, he responded, “Staying out served in World War II with the U.S. He worked just as hard for his community as for his business, West, Dietler was a noble friend. of jail. That’s helpful.” Ever the wit, he Army Corps of Engineers from 1942 A host of organizations benefited from his charity: Indeed, Alan K. Simpson, former was also the consummate nice guy. – 1945, commanding a transportation The arts with the Denver Art Museum, U.S. Senator from Wyoming and Among his accomplishments are company responsible for delivering History with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and the Colorado Historical Foundation, former chairman of the Center’s board helping to found the city of Vail, fuel to combat units in North Africa, Education in the Culver Educational Foundation and the University of Tulsa, of trustees, called his longtime friend Colorado; serving on the boards of the Italy, France, and Germany. After the The infirmed with the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation, a great human being. “Cort was the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, war, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Kids with the Boy Scouts of America, to whom he directed memorials, most generous guy—with his time, University of Tulsa, and Denver Area history and political science from the And the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. his friendship, his treasure, his talent. Council of the Boy Scouts of America; University of Tulsa in 1947. He flew under the radar. He did things generously contributing to the Denver Dietler’s wife of sixty years, Martha, Whereas, On his appointment to the Board of Trustees ten years ago, we’ll never find out about.” Art Museum; and being named “2007 passed away in 2012. The Trustees Cort announced, “For what little I can offer, I would be honored to contribute.” Dietler was involved in some thirty Citizen of the West” by the National of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West And contribute he did—on an extraordinary scale: companies, and in 1995, he founded Western Stock Show, a group for which adopted the resolution on the opposite Capital campaign. Posse. Annual Fund. Conservation. Acquisitions. Member. TransMontaigne, Inc., a fuel storage he was a past director. page to commemorate Dietler’s loyalty As we came to know and hold in our hearts Cortlandt Dietler, and transport company in Denver. In Dietler won numerous industry to the Center. We learned what Dwight Eisenhower meant as he said, “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, Of getting along with people, of getting things done.” We’re sure Cort would have agreed.
In his memory, and in appreciation for his life of service, we, the Board of Trustees of the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association, do approve this resolution in fond remembrance of our friend and fellow Trustee, Cort Dietler. William Jacob Hays, Sr. (1830–1875). A Herd of Bison Crossing the Missouri River, 1863. Oil on canvas. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust Fund Purchase. 3.60 (detail)
18 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 19 potential career in lecturing. American culture as represented by shaping my own culture—thanks to its Studying the The Papers of William F. Cody Finally, in the autumn of 2012, I Buffalo Bill Cody: cowboys, American living emblem Buffalo Bill. undertook a research trip to Salt Lake Indians, and American technological Working on behalf of the Papers and University of Strathclyde City where I was able to collate a advancements. The evidence I of William F. Cody at the Buffalo American West wealth of both primary and secondary uncovered demonstrates how Buffalo Bill Center of the West has been an from Scotland material to narrow the focus of my Bill’s Wild West marked a watershed invaluable experience. It has allowed Jeremy Johnston, Gregory Davis, and Alessandra Alice Magrin work. This visit gave me the opportunity in the development of a new Italian me many opportunities including To further academic research examining the international legacy of William F. Cody, the Papers of William F. to experience the desert landscape for popular culture—resulting in Italian traveling to Wyoming to carry out Cody at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West collaborated with the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. We myself, and to consider—within the versions of the Wild West myth in research at the McCracken Research began this endeavor in 2009 through the work of Chris Dixon who edited Charles Eldridge Griffin’s book Four Years context of my studies—the respective operas, novels, comics, and “Spaghetti Library to immerse myself in genuine in Europe with Buffalo Bill. In June 2010, the Papers hosted an international academic conference at the University reactions of both Mormons and non- western” films. western culture. I have had the fortune of Strathclyde titled “Buffalo Bill and Europe.” In addition to drawing international attention to the mission of the Mormons to that environment some Studying this topic made me to collaborate with a great network Papers project, the conference demonstrated the value of examining William F. Cody and the American West in a century and a half ago. I appreciate aware of the complex and fascinating of researchers associated with the transnational context. To facilitate academic research in this area, we sponsored two scholarships at Strathclyde. all the support the Buffalo Bill Center history of the American West and its Papers who are located in the United Under the supervision of Dr. Mark Ellis, doctoral candidates Alessandra Magrin and Gregory Davis are completing of the West provided to further my people, of how frequently reality and States and abroad. I would like to their doctorate degrees in American Studies this year. The two researchers share with us their experiences and academic career. myth intermingle, and how difficult take this opportunity to thank my discuss how they benefited from their connection to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. it is to discern one from the other— fellow scholars and all the donors who Alessandra Alice Magrin especially in the case of Buffalo Bill. contributed to the Papers for providing Gregory Davis the experiences in Utah Territory and bolsters personal justification I am originally Also, examining extensively the figure me with an enriching and collaborative I grew up in Shropshire, an English during this period highlight how through the meanings we attach to it. from Varese, which of Cody made me cognizant of the academic journey. � county that borders the eastern the physical environment is neither Beyond the parameters of is located in important role he played as an active limit of Wales. I physically nor metaphorically independent research, I have been northwest Italy. participant in the process of cultural/ received both a static. Rather, it is an ever-changing able to exchange knowledge while Since 2006 I have national formation, and how little of In upcoming issues of Points Bachelor of Arts entity, continually re-perceived and developing my skills for public speaking lived in the United this merit has been so far acknowledged West, read more about the people of Degree in History redefined by communities living both through the presentation of papers Kingdom. I hold in academic discussions. In particular, the Papers of William F. Cody. Visit and a Master of concurrently and at different points at numerous academic conferences. a Bachelor of Arts researching Buffalo Bill in relation to www.codyarchive.org for additional Arts Degree in in time. This reminds us that the I have also been privileged enough degree in Foreign Italy made me realize the extent of information about the Papers project. American History, fundamental human sense of place to teach graduate level students Languages and Literatures from the the impact of the American West in with distinction, is important—not just because it currently studying history at the University of Milan, a Master of Letters from the University provides physical sustenance, but also University of Strathclyde, which has with Distinction in American Studies of Sheffield. because it provides personal identity been invaluable in preparing me for a from the University of Glasgow, and I am My research explores the currently completing my Doctorate at the relationship between Mormons University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I have and non-Mormons in the desert presented lectures at several national environment of mid-nineteenth and international conferences including century Utah Territory. I had a the British Association for American particular interest in how each of Studies, Heidelberg Spring Academy, and these communities—including both the American Indian Workshop at the Indian and white peoples—created European Network of Native American its own exclusive definition of the Studies. Recently I received an “Eccles surrounding landscape as a means Center Postgraduate Award” to research toward developing and maintaining its at the British Library of London. own survival, identity, and hegemony My doctoral dissertation, “W.F. Cody in the region. and Italy” focuses on Buffalo Bill’s From my study, I learned how Wild West tours in the nineteenth the natural landscape of the mid- and twentieth centuries and their nineteenth century American West influence on Italian society and existed as much in the imagination culture. Drawing upon archival, visual, as it did in reality. From the and oral history records located in Italian repositories, I examined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Italy, 1890, with Mount Vesuvius in background. Original Buffalo Bill encompassing Myth of the Garden to Frederic Remington’s (1861 – 1909) undated desert sketch is a good illustration of the landscape that can Museum Collection. P.69.806. Sidebar Image: William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody in front of his Wild West the contending Myth of the Desert, be at once garden or desert, according to Gregory Davis’s research. Gift of The Coe Foundation. 37.67 the reaction of the Italian people to tent, Italy, 1906. The Bradford-Decker Collection. P.69.86
20 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 � 21 potential career in lecturing. American culture as represented by shaping my own culture—thanks to its Studying the The Papers of William F. Cody Finally, in the autumn of 2012, I Buffalo Bill Cody: cowboys, American living emblem Buffalo Bill. undertook a research trip to Salt Lake Indians, and American technological Working on behalf of the Papers and University of Strathclyde City where I was able to collate a advancements. The evidence I of William F. Cody at the Buffalo American West wealth of both primary and secondary uncovered demonstrates how Buffalo Bill Center of the West has been an from Scotland material to narrow the focus of my Bill’s Wild West marked a watershed invaluable experience. It has allowed Jeremy Johnston, Gregory Davis, and Alessandra Alice Magrin work. This visit gave me the opportunity in the development of a new Italian me many opportunities including To further academic research examining the international legacy of William F. Cody, the Papers of William F. to experience the desert landscape for popular culture—resulting in Italian traveling to Wyoming to carry out Cody at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West collaborated with the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. We myself, and to consider—within the versions of the Wild West myth in research at the McCracken Research began this endeavor in 2009 through the work of Chris Dixon who edited Charles Eldridge Griffin’s book Four Years context of my studies—the respective operas, novels, comics, and “Spaghetti Library to immerse myself in genuine in Europe with Buffalo Bill. In June 2010, the Papers hosted an international academic conference at the University reactions of both Mormons and non- western” films. western culture. I have had the fortune of Strathclyde titled “Buffalo Bill and Europe.” In addition to drawing international attention to the mission of the Mormons to that environment some Studying this topic made me to collaborate with a great network Papers project, the conference demonstrated the value of examining William F. Cody and the American West in a century and a half ago. I appreciate aware of the complex and fascinating of researchers associated with the transnational context. To facilitate academic research in this area, we sponsored two scholarships at Strathclyde. all the support the Buffalo Bill Center history of the American West and its Papers who are located in the United Under the supervision of Dr. Mark Ellis, doctoral candidates Alessandra Magrin and Gregory Davis are completing of the West provided to further my people, of how frequently reality and States and abroad. I would like to their doctorate degrees in American Studies this year. The two researchers share with us their experiences and academic career. myth intermingle, and how difficult take this opportunity to thank my discuss how they benefited from their connection to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. it is to discern one from the other— fellow scholars and all the donors who Alessandra Alice Magrin especially in the case of Buffalo Bill. contributed to the Papers for providing Gregory Davis the experiences in Utah Territory and bolsters personal justification I am originally Also, examining extensively the figure me with an enriching and collaborative I grew up in Shropshire, an English during this period highlight how through the meanings we attach to it. from Varese, which of Cody made me cognizant of the academic journey. � county that borders the eastern the physical environment is neither Beyond the parameters of is located in important role he played as an active limit of Wales. I physically nor metaphorically independent research, I have been northwest Italy. participant in the process of cultural/ received both a static. Rather, it is an ever-changing able to exchange knowledge while Since 2006 I have national formation, and how little of In upcoming issues of Points Bachelor of Arts entity, continually re-perceived and developing my skills for public speaking lived in the United this merit has been so far acknowledged West, read more about the people of Degree in History redefined by communities living both through the presentation of papers Kingdom. I hold in academic discussions. In particular, the Papers of William F. Cody. Visit and a Master of concurrently and at different points at numerous academic conferences. a Bachelor of Arts researching Buffalo Bill in relation to www.codyarchive.org for additional Arts Degree in in time. This reminds us that the I have also been privileged enough degree in Foreign Italy made me realize the extent of information about the Papers project. American History, fundamental human sense of place to teach graduate level students Languages and Literatures from the the impact of the American West in with distinction, is important—not just because it currently studying history at the University of Milan, a Master of Letters from the University provides physical sustenance, but also University of Strathclyde, which has with Distinction in American Studies of Sheffield. because it provides personal identity been invaluable in preparing me for a from the University of Glasgow, and I am My research explores the currently completing my Doctorate at the relationship between Mormons University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I have and non-Mormons in the desert presented lectures at several national environment of mid-nineteenth and international conferences including century Utah Territory. I had a the British Association for American particular interest in how each of Studies, Heidelberg Spring Academy, and these communities—including both the American Indian Workshop at the Indian and white peoples—created European Network of Native American its own exclusive definition of the Studies. Recently I received an “Eccles surrounding landscape as a means Center Postgraduate Award” to research toward developing and maintaining its at the British Library of London. own survival, identity, and hegemony My doctoral dissertation, “W.F. Cody in the region. and Italy” focuses on Buffalo Bill’s From my study, I learned how Wild West tours in the nineteenth the natural landscape of the mid- and twentieth centuries and their nineteenth century American West influence on Italian society and existed as much in the imagination culture. Drawing upon archival, visual, as it did in reality. From the and oral history records located in Italian repositories, I examined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Italy, 1890, with Mount Vesuvius in background. Original Buffalo Bill encompassing Myth of the Garden to Frederic Remington’s (1861 – 1909) undated desert sketch is a good illustration of the landscape that can Museum Collection. P.69.806. Sidebar Image: William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody in front of his Wild West the contending Myth of the Desert, be at once garden or desert, according to Gregory Davis’s research. Gift of The Coe Foundation. 37.67 the reaction of the Italian people to tent, Italy, 1906. The Bradford-Decker Collection. P.69.86
20 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 � 21 Brigham, a buffalo hunter against forty-six for Comstock. After the competition was over, Cody Buckskin Joe, the lifesaver Brigham, a horse which Bill Cody removed his saddle and bridle and Rated almost as high as Brigham as obtained from a Ute Indian and riding Brigham bareback, guided a buffalo hunter was another Indian named for the Mormon leader, was the horse with his hand and knee pony, Buckskin Joe, an army horse, considered by him to be the best into a herd of buffalo. Shooting from which Cody rode on and off on scouting horse he ever saw for buffalo chasing. the horse’s back with his needle- and hunting expeditions from 1869 to He called him the “King buffalo killer.” gun, a breech-loading 50-caliber 1872. Although “rather sorry looking,” It was this horse that helped him to Springfield, which he called “Lucretia this horse was known all over the win the sobriquet of Buffalo Bill, which Borgia,” Bill Cody killed thirteen frontier as the greatest long distance remained with him through life. He additional animals. When the Kansas horse of his day. rode Brigham while he was hunting Pacific suspended work in 1808, buffalo to supply the construction Buffalo Bill, then 22 years old, was camps along the Kansas Pacific. out of work as a supplier of meat to The longer the chase, the Within seventeen months he killed, the construction crews. In order to better the pony seemed By Agnes Wright Spring by his count, some 4,280 buffalo. get money with which to take his wife to like it. In the buffalo killing contest with and baby back to Leavenworth for the In the acknowledgements of her book, Billy Comstock, one of General winter, Cody raffled off Brigham. Ike Old Buckskin was said to have been author Agnes Wright Spring wrote, “I wish Custer’s guides, Buffalo Bill rode Bonham, holder of the lucky ticket, Buffalo Bill’s favorite on the trail when especially to acknowledge the assistance of Brigham and dropped thirty-eight of took Brigham to Wyandotte, Kansas, work was dangerous. Cody usually rode Cody liked riding at full speed. In this undated the shaggy animals on his first run where the horse continued to hold another horse and let Buckskin Joe photo, he races his horse in an arena. Vincent James White, editor of Western Farm Life, Mercaldo Collection. P.71.40.1 [compared] to Comstock’s twenty- his own in various contests of speed follow along to be used for reserve in who envisaged the story and gave me the three. His total score was sixty-nine and endurance. case Cody had to make a run for his assignment in 1948.” The Buffalo Bill Center life. Buckskin Joe instinctively scented of the West thanks Alice Beatty, Agnes’s niece, danger and showed his fear at once. He was almost human in thrusting his for loaning her copy of Buffalo Bill and His head into the bridle and in standing still Horses (1935) for the excerpts that follow. to be saddled. The longer the chase, the better the pony seemed to like it. In the great buffalo hunt engineered illiam F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody After the Pony Express was by General Phil Sheridan and staged was, above all else, a superb inaugurated in 1860, Bill Cody, 14, along the Republican River for Grand horseman with the horses became a rider [a fact often disputed Duke Alexis of Russia in 1872, Cody linked to almost every phase of his life. by historians]. He made a name for permitted the duke to ride Buckskin WBorn in Iowa on February 26, 1846, himself for endurance as a carrier. Joe. Frank Thompson, a fox hunter Cody went with his family, by saddle, to Later he joined the Seventh Kansas of Pennsylvania, also shared this the new western frontier called Kansas Cavalry, and then became a scout, honor. Later, Thompson, who became before he was eight years old. guide and plainsman. From those president of the Pennsylvania When Cody was 10 years old, his early scouting days on, he was Railroad, referred to him as “the most father died, and Bill went to work for continually on horseback, except for celebrated horse of the plains.” William Russell [as a teamster] in order a few years when he was playing in Several times, because of his to help support his mother. He began melodrama. He early mastered the endurance ability, Buckskin Joe as a herder and had a small mule accomplishment of riding bareback Frederic Remington (1861 – 1909) painted several carried Buffalo Bill to safety from of William F. Cody’s horses. Here, he and his mount for a mount. Through hard work he and leaping off and on his horse Indian attacks. One terrific ride, share the spotlight. Buffalo Bill in the Limelight, rapidly advanced and in time became while the animal was galloping at however, of 195 miles from the ca. 1899. (detail) Gift of The Coe Foundation, H.P. a wagonmaster. full speed. As in his days of hunting buffalo for the Kansas Pacific Railroad, Buffalo Bill demonstrated buffalo Skoglund, Ernest Goppert Sr. and John S. Bugas. 23.71 hunting in the Wild West arena with live, running buffalo, ca. 1905. P.69.1002 headwaters of the Republican River
22 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 23 Brigham, a buffalo hunter against forty-six for Comstock. After the competition was over, Cody Buckskin Joe, the lifesaver Brigham, a horse which Bill Cody removed his saddle and bridle and Rated almost as high as Brigham as obtained from a Ute Indian and riding Brigham bareback, guided a buffalo hunter was another Indian named for the Mormon leader, was the horse with his hand and knee pony, Buckskin Joe, an army horse, considered by him to be the best into a herd of buffalo. Shooting from which Cody rode on and off on scouting horse he ever saw for buffalo chasing. the horse’s back with his needle- and hunting expeditions from 1869 to He called him the “King buffalo killer.” gun, a breech-loading 50-caliber 1872. Although “rather sorry looking,” It was this horse that helped him to Springfield, which he called “Lucretia this horse was known all over the win the sobriquet of Buffalo Bill, which Borgia,” Bill Cody killed thirteen frontier as the greatest long distance remained with him through life. He additional animals. When the Kansas horse of his day. rode Brigham while he was hunting Pacific suspended work in 1808, buffalo to supply the construction Buffalo Bill, then 22 years old, was camps along the Kansas Pacific. out of work as a supplier of meat to The longer the chase, the Within seventeen months he killed, the construction crews. In order to better the pony seemed By Agnes Wright Spring by his count, some 4,280 buffalo. get money with which to take his wife to like it. In the buffalo killing contest with and baby back to Leavenworth for the In the acknowledgements of her book, Billy Comstock, one of General winter, Cody raffled off Brigham. Ike Old Buckskin was said to have been author Agnes Wright Spring wrote, “I wish Custer’s guides, Buffalo Bill rode Bonham, holder of the lucky ticket, Buffalo Bill’s favorite on the trail when especially to acknowledge the assistance of Brigham and dropped thirty-eight of took Brigham to Wyandotte, Kansas, work was dangerous. Cody usually rode Cody liked riding at full speed. In this undated the shaggy animals on his first run where the horse continued to hold another horse and let Buckskin Joe photo, he races his horse in an arena. Vincent James White, editor of Western Farm Life, Mercaldo Collection. P.71.40.1 [compared] to Comstock’s twenty- his own in various contests of speed follow along to be used for reserve in who envisaged the story and gave me the three. His total score was sixty-nine and endurance. case Cody had to make a run for his assignment in 1948.” The Buffalo Bill Center life. Buckskin Joe instinctively scented of the West thanks Alice Beatty, Agnes’s niece, danger and showed his fear at once. He was almost human in thrusting his for loaning her copy of Buffalo Bill and His head into the bridle and in standing still Horses (1935) for the excerpts that follow. to be saddled. The longer the chase, the better the pony seemed to like it. In the great buffalo hunt engineered illiam F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody After the Pony Express was by General Phil Sheridan and staged was, above all else, a superb inaugurated in 1860, Bill Cody, 14, along the Republican River for Grand horseman with the horses became a rider [a fact often disputed Duke Alexis of Russia in 1872, Cody linked to almost every phase of his life. by historians]. He made a name for permitted the duke to ride Buckskin WBorn in Iowa on February 26, 1846, himself for endurance as a carrier. Joe. Frank Thompson, a fox hunter Cody went with his family, by saddle, to Later he joined the Seventh Kansas of Pennsylvania, also shared this the new western frontier called Kansas Cavalry, and then became a scout, honor. Later, Thompson, who became before he was eight years old. guide and plainsman. From those president of the Pennsylvania When Cody was 10 years old, his early scouting days on, he was Railroad, referred to him as “the most father died, and Bill went to work for continually on horseback, except for celebrated horse of the plains.” William Russell [as a teamster] in order a few years when he was playing in Several times, because of his to help support his mother. He began melodrama. He early mastered the endurance ability, Buckskin Joe as a herder and had a small mule accomplishment of riding bareback Frederic Remington (1861 – 1909) painted several carried Buffalo Bill to safety from of William F. Cody’s horses. Here, he and his mount for a mount. Through hard work he and leaping off and on his horse Indian attacks. One terrific ride, share the spotlight. Buffalo Bill in the Limelight, rapidly advanced and in time became while the animal was galloping at however, of 195 miles from the ca. 1899. (detail) Gift of The Coe Foundation, H.P. a wagonmaster. full speed. As in his days of hunting buffalo for the Kansas Pacific Railroad, Buffalo Bill demonstrated buffalo Skoglund, Ernest Goppert Sr. and John S. Bugas. 23.71 hunting in the Wild West arena with live, running buffalo, ca. 1905. P.69.1002 headwaters of the Republican River
22 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 23 to Fort McPherson was too much for Willing speed, tireless the loyal animal. The strain of the hours at her easel in Cody’s camp. blazes.” [The painting is now in the trip caused him to go blind. When in courage…you have never There she painted her well-known Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s 1877, Buckskin Joe was condemned failed me. picture of Cody on his “favorite” Whitney Western Art Museum.] by the government and sold at public white horse, whose name is said by sale, Dave Berry of North Platte But on the homeward journey one authority to have been Tucker; by Billy dropped dead [Nebraska] bought him and gave him to America, when the S.S. Persian another, McKinley. to Cody. Cody kept him at the ranch Monarch was in mid-ocean, Old Charlie Prints of the picture were sold After the Colonel’s horse Old Charlie and cared for him until he died of became ill and died. His death cast throughout the United States and died, one of Charlie’s companions, a old age. The horse was buried and a gloom over the entire ship. The carcass Europe. The original painting was white horse, took his place. This was tombstone was erected over his grave was taken to the main deck, wrapped in sent to Cody’s home in North Platte, Billy. His picture was placarded on which was inscribed: canvas and covered with an American then called “Welcome Wigwam.” It walls and exhibited in windows all over “Old Buckskin Joe, the horse that flag. Members of Cody’s company and is reported that when Cody later was the land. Billy probably appeared in on several occasions saved the life of others assembled on the deck. Cody, notified one day that his house was more cities and before more persons of Buffalo Bill, by carrying him safely out standing alone near the lifeless form, is burning, he telegraphed to Nebraska distinction, rank, wealth, and character of range of Indian bullets. Died of old reported to have said in part: as follows: “Save Rosa Bonheur’s than any of Cody’s previous mounts. age, 1882.” picture and the house may go to Singularly enough, it was on the Old fellow, your journeys Buffalo Bill on his old warhorse Charlie, ca. 1883. Vincent Mercaldo Collection. P.71.34.1 Tall Bull, are over…Obedient to my call, gladly you bore your burden on, much attention that many members a fast running horse Charlie, almost human little knowing, little reckoning of royalty sought the favor of riding what the day might bring, Among the best horses that Buffalo Stranger and Charlie were two him. Among these was Grand Duke shared sorrows and pleasures Bill ever possessed were Tall Bull and other horses which were Buffalo Bill’s Michael of Russia, who several times alike. Willing speed, tireless Powder Face. They were captured companions in his scouting days. rode him in a chase after Buffalo Bill’s courage…you have never failed from Indians in 1869 during a fight Charlie, a half-blood Kentucky horse, herd of buffalo. When the Prince me. Ah, Charlie, old fellow, I under General Carr’s command at purchased for Buffalo Bill as a 5-year- of Wales visited the show’s stables, have had many friends, but Summit Springs, Colorado. old in Nebraska, was perhaps the most he had the old horse stripped and few of whom I could say that…I Cody called Tall Bull “the fastest publicized horse of his day. examined him carefully. The Prince love you as you loved me. Men running horse west of the Mississippi.” According to Buffalo Bill: “Charlie in speaking of his visit to the grounds, tell me you have no soul; but He could ride Tall Bull bareback, and was an animal of almost human was quoted as saying: “I liked best if there is a heaven and scouts holding to his mane, he could jump intelligence, extraordinary speed, looking at the mustangs.” can enter there, I’ll wait at the to the ground and up again, repeating endurance and fidelity. When he was [Upon Charlie’s death,] one of the gate for you, old friend. eight times. He won considerable quite young, I rode him on a hunt for London reporters wrote, “I saw Buffalo money racing these two horses at Fort wild horses, which he ran down after Bill’s horse, Charlie, 20 years old, a While the band played, Old Charlie McPherson and nearby, until the army a chase of fifteen miles. At another tame old gee-gee who licked my hand. was allowed to slide slowly down skids officers and others refused to compete time, on a wager of $500 that I could Mr. Cody has ridden him upwards of into the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. with Cody. ride him over the prairies 100 miles in 14 years in all his campaigns and Upon being summoned to Fort D.A. ten hours, he went the distance in nine western exploits.” Russell near Cheyenne, Wyoming, as a hours and forty-five minutes.” Charlie raced around the arena at witness at a court martial once, Cody When the Wild West Show opened the American Exposition grounds Rosa Bonheur was delayed for some time. In treating at Omaha in May, 1883, Charlie near London while his owner shot paints Cody his friends while he waited for the was the star horse, and he held that dozens of glass balls that were tossed trial, Cody spent the money which he position at all exhibitions in this up as turrets. The horse appeared to It was during the season of had promised to use to buy furniture country and in Europe during the first be at his best when Buffalo Bill rode 1889, while Buffalo Bill’s show was for Mrs. Cody. Finding himself without season abroad, 1887. him at the “command performance” performing for the Great International Exhibition at Paris, that Rosa Bonheur, funds, he sold Tall Bull to buy furniture. In London, Charlie attracted so at Windsor Castle. Rosa Bonheur (1822 – 1899). Col. William F. Cody, 1889. Oil on canvas. Given in Memory of world-famous artist, spent many William R. Coe and Mai Rogers Coe. 8.66 Buffalo Bill’s boyhood home now in the Center’s Greever Garden. Gift of Burlington Northern Railroad. 1.69.2280 I 24 POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 25 to Fort McPherson was too much for Willing speed, tireless the loyal animal. The strain of the hours at her easel in Cody’s camp. blazes.” [The painting is now in the trip caused him to go blind. When in courage…you have never There she painted her well-known Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s 1877, Buckskin Joe was condemned failed me. picture of Cody on his “favorite” Whitney Western Art Museum.] by the government and sold at public white horse, whose name is said by sale, Dave Berry of North Platte But on the homeward journey one authority to have been Tucker; by Billy dropped dead [Nebraska] bought him and gave him to America, when the S.S. Persian another, McKinley. to Cody. Cody kept him at the ranch Monarch was in mid-ocean, Old Charlie Prints of the picture were sold After the Colonel’s horse Old Charlie and cared for him until he died of became ill and died. His death cast throughout the United States and died, one of Charlie’s companions, a old age. The horse was buried and a gloom over the entire ship. The carcass Europe. The original painting was white horse, took his place. This was tombstone was erected over his grave was taken to the main deck, wrapped in sent to Cody’s home in North Platte, Billy. His picture was placarded on which was inscribed: canvas and covered with an American then called “Welcome Wigwam.” It walls and exhibited in windows all over “Old Buckskin Joe, the horse that flag. Members of Cody’s company and is reported that when Cody later was the land. Billy probably appeared in on several occasions saved the life of others assembled on the deck. Cody, notified one day that his house was more cities and before more persons of Buffalo Bill, by carrying him safely out standing alone near the lifeless form, is burning, he telegraphed to Nebraska distinction, rank, wealth, and character of range of Indian bullets. Died of old reported to have said in part: as follows: “Save Rosa Bonheur’s than any of Cody’s previous mounts. age, 1882.” picture and the house may go to Singularly enough, it was on the Old fellow, your journeys Buffalo Bill on his old warhorse Charlie, ca. 1883. Vincent Mercaldo Collection. P.71.34.1 Tall Bull, are over…Obedient to my call, gladly you bore your burden on, much attention that many members a fast running horse Charlie, almost human little knowing, little reckoning of royalty sought the favor of riding what the day might bring, Among the best horses that Buffalo Stranger and Charlie were two him. Among these was Grand Duke shared sorrows and pleasures Bill ever possessed were Tall Bull and other horses which were Buffalo Bill’s Michael of Russia, who several times alike. Willing speed, tireless Powder Face. They were captured companions in his scouting days. rode him in a chase after Buffalo Bill’s courage…you have never failed from Indians in 1869 during a fight Charlie, a half-blood Kentucky horse, herd of buffalo. When the Prince me. Ah, Charlie, old fellow, I under General Carr’s command at purchased for Buffalo Bill as a 5-year- of Wales visited the show’s stables, have had many friends, but Summit Springs, Colorado. old in Nebraska, was perhaps the most he had the old horse stripped and few of whom I could say that…I Cody called Tall Bull “the fastest publicized horse of his day. examined him carefully. The Prince love you as you loved me. Men running horse west of the Mississippi.” According to Buffalo Bill: “Charlie in speaking of his visit to the grounds, tell me you have no soul; but He could ride Tall Bull bareback, and was an animal of almost human was quoted as saying: “I liked best if there is a heaven and scouts holding to his mane, he could jump intelligence, extraordinary speed, looking at the mustangs.” can enter there, I’ll wait at the to the ground and up again, repeating endurance and fidelity. When he was [Upon Charlie’s death,] one of the gate for you, old friend. eight times. He won considerable quite young, I rode him on a hunt for London reporters wrote, “I saw Buffalo money racing these two horses at Fort wild horses, which he ran down after Bill’s horse, Charlie, 20 years old, a While the band played, Old Charlie McPherson and nearby, until the army a chase of fifteen miles. At another tame old gee-gee who licked my hand. was allowed to slide slowly down skids officers and others refused to compete time, on a wager of $500 that I could Mr. Cody has ridden him upwards of into the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. with Cody. ride him over the prairies 100 miles in 14 years in all his campaigns and Upon being summoned to Fort D.A. ten hours, he went the distance in nine western exploits.” Russell near Cheyenne, Wyoming, as a hours and forty-five minutes.” Charlie raced around the arena at witness at a court martial once, Cody When the Wild West Show opened the American Exposition grounds Rosa Bonheur was delayed for some time. In treating at Omaha in May, 1883, Charlie near London while his owner shot paints Cody his friends while he waited for the was the star horse, and he held that dozens of glass balls that were tossed trial, Cody spent the money which he position at all exhibitions in this up as turrets. The horse appeared to It was during the season of had promised to use to buy furniture country and in Europe during the first be at his best when Buffalo Bill rode 1889, while Buffalo Bill’s show was for Mrs. Cody. Finding himself without season abroad, 1887. him at the “command performance” performing for the Great International Exhibition at Paris, that Rosa Bonheur, funds, he sold Tall Bull to buy furniture. In London, Charlie attracted so at Windsor Castle. Rosa Bonheur (1822 – 1899). Col. William F. Cody, 1889. Oil on canvas. Given in Memory of world-famous artist, spent many William R. Coe and Mai Rogers Coe. 8.66 Buffalo Bill’s boyhood home now in the Center’s Greever Garden. Gift of Burlington Northern Railroad. 1.69.2280 I 24 POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 25 return from the second triumphal tour “Farewell tours” Nebraska, just to bid on a white horse A bronze rider scouts on of the Wild West show in Europe in 1892 named Isham. To some, the horse was that Billy, without any premonitory While the Wild West was playing on just a “flea-bitten nag,” but to Bills, In 1922, Smokey, a favorite horse symptoms of sickness, walked off the Continent about 1905, glanders he was the most desirable animal on of Buffalo Bill, was shipped from the the gangplank of the ship, neighed as [an infectious disease primarily in the lot. Isham had carried Buffalo Bill TE ranch on the South Fork of the his hoofs struck his native shore, and horses, mules, and donkeys] broke out around the arena in many a show. Shoshone River in Wyoming, to the New dropped dead. among the horses in the show. Little Slowly the bidding crept up— York City studio of Mrs. Harry Payne or no publicity was given to the fact and then—Isham was “sold to the Whitney, to be used as a model for a that approximately three hundred fine gentleman from Lincoln” for $150. statue. The sturdy equestrian statue Duke, a magnificent horse animals, including racers, buckers, and Bills’ mission had been successful. He fashioned by Mrs. Whitney now stands Percherons belonging to the Show had shipped Isham up to the TE Ranch in on the edge of the little Wyoming city One of the most beautiful horses to be shot. This was a severe jolt to the Wyoming and gave him to Buffalo Bill that bears the name of Cody. There in which Buffalo Bill ever owned was men who had come to know and love “for keeps.” the shadow of the peaks where Buffalo Duke, a magnificent chestnut, a the horses. But soon after his Show was closed, Bill loved to hunt and to entertain his present from General Nelson A. Miles. About this time Cody began to make Cody spent many strenuous hours in friends, a spirited bronze horse, on a In 1898, on the day set aside as Cody final “farewell tours,” with the hope the saddle in a last supreme endeavor great granite base, carries in his saddle Day at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition that he could retire to his Wyoming to recoup his losses by promoting a a bronze rider who is scouting trail. � at Omaha [Nebraska], Cody, mounted ranch near Yellowstone National Park motion picture. This picture he hoped Buffalo Bill driving the Spider Phaeton carriage behind two white dappled horses in Sheridan, on this splendid animal, led his show to spend his last days in the great would depict the Indian troubles at Wyoming, ca. 1916. Source unknown. P.69.1672 parade. Twenty-four thousand persons outdoors. But his mining and other the time of the Wounded Knee battle Born in Colorado and raised in stood and cheered. Duke was known ventures did not pay off. He was in 1890. In that undertaking, he top from his saddle. But he was forced, Wyoming, Agnes Rebecca Wright Spring to audiences all over the country in the constantly in need of money and more undoubtedly overtaxed his strength… because of his waning strength, to lead (1894 – 1988) was a noted historian early 1900s. money. It was therefore necessary to Cody, however, took to the road again the parades as the driver of a team of and prolific writer, publishing dozens of repeat many of his “farewells.” with the Sells-Floto Circus. He greeted white horses hitched to a phaeton. books and short stories, and hundreds the great audiences under the white Even so, he was still a striking figure of articles. She held positions in the …horses, camels, as he skillfully “handled the ribbons.” state governments of both Wyoming and Cody often said, “Back in 1870 I could Colorado, and was inducted into both mules, sacred cows, drive any horse that ever had a bit in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and and band wagons went his mouth and a lot that hadn’t.” And National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. She was under the hammer. he could drive just as well in his later director of the Wyoming Federal Writers years as in his youth. Project during the Great Depression, In August 1913, the failure of was women’s editor for the Wyoming Cody’s old Wild West Show was Stockman-Farmer for twenty-seven announced to Denver’s public by the years, and received lifetime achievement staccato rap of a whipstock and the awards from the University whir of a buckskin thong-lash wielded of Wyoming and Western by George Colliding, auctioneer for Writers Association. United States Marshal Bailey. As the spieler, E.R. “Kid” Austin, ballyhooed and beat a tattoo on the rostrum with a cane—horses, camels, mules, sacred cows, and band wagons went under the hammer. The most determined bidder of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney the day was Colonel C.J. Bills, who (1875 – 1942). Buffalo Bill—The Buffalo Bill on Duke, undated. Vincent Mercaldo had come all the way from Lincoln, Buffalo Bill on his horse Isham at his Wyoming Scout, 1924. Bronze. Gift of the Collection. P.71.56.1 TE Ranch, ca. 1914. Source unknown. P.69.1979 artist. 3.58
26 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 � 27 return from the second triumphal tour “Farewell tours” Nebraska, just to bid on a white horse A bronze rider scouts on of the Wild West show in Europe in 1892 named Isham. To some, the horse was that Billy, without any premonitory While the Wild West was playing on just a “flea-bitten nag,” but to Bills, In 1922, Smokey, a favorite horse symptoms of sickness, walked off the Continent about 1905, glanders he was the most desirable animal on of Buffalo Bill, was shipped from the the gangplank of the ship, neighed as [an infectious disease primarily in the lot. Isham had carried Buffalo Bill TE ranch on the South Fork of the his hoofs struck his native shore, and horses, mules, and donkeys] broke out around the arena in many a show. Shoshone River in Wyoming, to the New dropped dead. among the horses in the show. Little Slowly the bidding crept up— York City studio of Mrs. Harry Payne or no publicity was given to the fact and then—Isham was “sold to the Whitney, to be used as a model for a that approximately three hundred fine gentleman from Lincoln” for $150. statue. The sturdy equestrian statue Duke, a magnificent horse animals, including racers, buckers, and Bills’ mission had been successful. He fashioned by Mrs. Whitney now stands Percherons belonging to the Show had shipped Isham up to the TE Ranch in on the edge of the little Wyoming city One of the most beautiful horses to be shot. This was a severe jolt to the Wyoming and gave him to Buffalo Bill that bears the name of Cody. There in which Buffalo Bill ever owned was men who had come to know and love “for keeps.” the shadow of the peaks where Buffalo Duke, a magnificent chestnut, a the horses. But soon after his Show was closed, Bill loved to hunt and to entertain his present from General Nelson A. Miles. About this time Cody began to make Cody spent many strenuous hours in friends, a spirited bronze horse, on a In 1898, on the day set aside as Cody final “farewell tours,” with the hope the saddle in a last supreme endeavor great granite base, carries in his saddle Day at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition that he could retire to his Wyoming to recoup his losses by promoting a a bronze rider who is scouting trail. � at Omaha [Nebraska], Cody, mounted ranch near Yellowstone National Park motion picture. This picture he hoped Buffalo Bill driving the Spider Phaeton carriage behind two white dappled horses in Sheridan, on this splendid animal, led his show to spend his last days in the great would depict the Indian troubles at Wyoming, ca. 1916. Source unknown. P.69.1672 parade. Twenty-four thousand persons outdoors. But his mining and other the time of the Wounded Knee battle Born in Colorado and raised in stood and cheered. Duke was known ventures did not pay off. He was in 1890. In that undertaking, he top from his saddle. But he was forced, Wyoming, Agnes Rebecca Wright Spring to audiences all over the country in the constantly in need of money and more undoubtedly overtaxed his strength… because of his waning strength, to lead (1894 – 1988) was a noted historian early 1900s. money. It was therefore necessary to Cody, however, took to the road again the parades as the driver of a team of and prolific writer, publishing dozens of repeat many of his “farewells.” with the Sells-Floto Circus. He greeted white horses hitched to a phaeton. books and short stories, and hundreds the great audiences under the white Even so, he was still a striking figure of articles. She held positions in the …horses, camels, as he skillfully “handled the ribbons.” state governments of both Wyoming and Cody often said, “Back in 1870 I could Colorado, and was inducted into both mules, sacred cows, drive any horse that ever had a bit in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and and band wagons went his mouth and a lot that hadn’t.” And National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. She was under the hammer. he could drive just as well in his later director of the Wyoming Federal Writers years as in his youth. Project during the Great Depression, In August 1913, the failure of was women’s editor for the Wyoming Cody’s old Wild West Show was Stockman-Farmer for twenty-seven announced to Denver’s public by the years, and received lifetime achievement staccato rap of a whipstock and the awards from the University whir of a buckskin thong-lash wielded of Wyoming and Western by George Colliding, auctioneer for Writers Association. United States Marshal Bailey. As the spieler, E.R. “Kid” Austin, ballyhooed and beat a tattoo on the rostrum with a cane—horses, camels, mules, sacred cows, and band wagons went under the hammer. The most determined bidder of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney the day was Colonel C.J. Bills, who (1875 – 1942). Buffalo Bill—The Buffalo Bill on Duke, undated. Vincent Mercaldo had come all the way from Lincoln, Buffalo Bill on his horse Isham at his Wyoming Scout, 1924. Bronze. Gift of the Collection. P.71.56.1 TE Ranch, ca. 1914. Source unknown. P.69.1979 artist. 3.58
26 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 � 27 Treasures from our West NEZ PERCE PUNCTURED SHIRT CHARLES CARY RUMSEY’S DYING INDIAN
Nineteenth-century warriors of of the Plains Indian Museum, open Charles Cary Rumsey’s Dying Indian in American sculpture— the Plateau and Northwestern to the public as of June 15. The new portrays a slouched Native American away from realism and Plains sometimes wore shirts with gallery features exclusively objects male atop a starving pony. The subject classic idealizing tendencies, perforations for ceremonial and from the Paul Dyck Collection, which matter may seem familiar because it and more toward concerns formal occasions. Such shirts signified dates from the late 1700s to the 1900s. is similar to James Earl Fraser’s iconic of abstract foundations of membership in a military society that Long recognized as the most historic End of the Trail (see Points West, Spring art—design, composition, prepared men for battle and honored and important privately-held collection 2013). Rumsey’s depiction, however, and focus on emotion. their victories. This Ni-mii-puu (Nez of Plains Indian artifacts, artwork, stands in contrast to Fraser’s idealized In his brief career (his life was Perce) punctured shirt dates to around and related materials in the world, it figure and horse. Rumsey conveys cut tragically short in an automobile 1850 and is made of tanned hide, became part of the Center’s collection immediacy and dramatic power accident), Rumsey created a rich variety I pigment, glass beads, human hair, in 2007. through quick modeling and a lack of of sculpture. He created numerous small and sinew. Punctured shirt. ca. 1850. The Paul Dyck Plains surface detail to further emphasize the bronzes of horses, buffalo, and other Charles Cary Rumsey (1879 – 1922). Dying Indian, The shirt is one of more than eighty Indian Buffalo Culture Collection, acquired through symbolic plight of the defeated warrior. animals; many studies of the human ca. 1904. Bronze, 27 1/2 x 30 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. items on view in the new Paul Dyck the generosity of the Dyck family and additional Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rumsey. 1.13 gifts of the Nielson Family and the Estate of Like Fraser, Rumsey studied sculpture figure; and a multitude of polo players Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Gallery Margaret S. Coe. NA.202.1209 in Paris and was exposed to the work of and horse and rider groupings. Rumsey’s the New York City entrance of the the great American sculptor, Augustus monumental public sculptures appear Manhattan Bridge; and a monumental THE WHEELLOCK Saint-Gaudens. Rumsey’s art, however, throughout his hometown of Buffalo, version of Dying Indian now rests in the represents an early example of the shift New York; his Buffalo Hunt frieze marks Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. I The wheellock mechanism was the causing the gun to fire. the match. These advantages, first self-igniting firearm action, but it By the first decade of the sixteenth however, were outweighed by the ART HANSEN’S VIOLIN is probably the least known of all gun century (1500 – 1510), the wheellock wheellock’s complexity and expensive action types. Its functional capability pistol was in extensive use in the construction. It usually had to be Born in Norway, Arndt (Art) 1910, he joined up with a cousin who Hansens moved to Cody. In summers, depends on two elements: a spring- German provinces. In 1517, its use was made, and repaired, by clock makers Hansen (1890 – 1963) longed to be was homesteading near Miles City, they worked at the 7D Ranch in activated, serrated wheel that revolves banned in the Hapsburg Empire, and and locksmiths. By 1550, a simpler a professional violinist until a hand Montana, and became a cowboy, Sunlight Basin—Helen as cook and when the trigger is pulled, and a piece in 1522 it was banned in Italy. It was and less costly ignition system, the injury ended his dream. Believing his herding cattle and breaking broncs. Art as handyman. During winters, of iron pyrite held in jaws that force feared as an ideal assassin’s weapon. flintlock, had been introduced, and it life would be better in America, his In 1917, Hansen married Helen ran a bakery, and Art was a it against the wheel. When the wheel Regardless of this stigma, the upper would dominate firearms types for the parents put the 12-year-old on a ship, Helen Evans, daughter of another butcher at the Cody Trading Company. spins against the pyrite, sparks are classes of the continent were quick next one hundred years. along with some money, his violin, homesteader. As their family grew “Even more important than the help generated that ignite a small amount to adapt the action to sporting arms, Still, the often beautiful and more a New Testament, and their good (two sons and two daughters), Hansen they gave us, was who Art and Helen of gunpowder in the priming pan. since it was no longer necessary reliable wheellock would continue to wishes. Hansen landed at Ellis Island supported them through butchering, were,” recalled Dewitt Dominick, The resultant “flash in the pan” is to hunt with a smoldering match be used by its wealthy and prominent and made his way to Wisconsin, where fiddle-playing at dances, fur-trapping, owner of the 7D Ranch. “[T]heir lives transferred through a small hole to that betrayed a hunter’s presence, owners well into the middle of the he worked on an uncle’s dairy farm. giving skiing lessons, and training were stories of settling the West.” I the propulsion charge in the barrel, or to stop periodically to rekindle eighteenth century. I He also attended school, becoming hunting dogs. When times turned a barber after graduating. Around tough in the Great Depression, the
Wheelock musket. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.1028
Violin. 1.69.4824.1 Art Hansen
28 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 29 Treasures from our West NEZ PERCE PUNCTURED SHIRT CHARLES CARY RUMSEY’S DYING INDIAN
Nineteenth-century warriors of of the Plains Indian Museum, open Charles Cary Rumsey’s Dying Indian in American sculpture— the Plateau and Northwestern to the public as of June 15. The new portrays a slouched Native American away from realism and Plains sometimes wore shirts with gallery features exclusively objects male atop a starving pony. The subject classic idealizing tendencies, perforations for ceremonial and from the Paul Dyck Collection, which matter may seem familiar because it and more toward concerns formal occasions. Such shirts signified dates from the late 1700s to the 1900s. is similar to James Earl Fraser’s iconic of abstract foundations of membership in a military society that Long recognized as the most historic End of the Trail (see Points West, Spring art—design, composition, prepared men for battle and honored and important privately-held collection 2013). Rumsey’s depiction, however, and focus on emotion. their victories. This Ni-mii-puu (Nez of Plains Indian artifacts, artwork, stands in contrast to Fraser’s idealized In his brief career (his life was Perce) punctured shirt dates to around and related materials in the world, it figure and horse. Rumsey conveys cut tragically short in an automobile 1850 and is made of tanned hide, became part of the Center’s collection immediacy and dramatic power accident), Rumsey created a rich variety I pigment, glass beads, human hair, in 2007. through quick modeling and a lack of of sculpture. He created numerous small and sinew. Punctured shirt. ca. 1850. The Paul Dyck Plains surface detail to further emphasize the bronzes of horses, buffalo, and other Charles Cary Rumsey (1879 – 1922). Dying Indian, The shirt is one of more than eighty Indian Buffalo Culture Collection, acquired through symbolic plight of the defeated warrior. animals; many studies of the human ca. 1904. Bronze, 27 1/2 x 30 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. items on view in the new Paul Dyck the generosity of the Dyck family and additional Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rumsey. 1.13 gifts of the Nielson Family and the Estate of Like Fraser, Rumsey studied sculpture figure; and a multitude of polo players Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Gallery Margaret S. Coe. NA.202.1209 in Paris and was exposed to the work of and horse and rider groupings. Rumsey’s the New York City entrance of the the great American sculptor, Augustus monumental public sculptures appear Manhattan Bridge; and a monumental THE WHEELLOCK Saint-Gaudens. Rumsey’s art, however, throughout his hometown of Buffalo, version of Dying Indian now rests in the represents an early example of the shift New York; his Buffalo Hunt frieze marks Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. I The wheellock mechanism was the causing the gun to fire. the match. These advantages, first self-igniting firearm action, but it By the first decade of the sixteenth however, were outweighed by the ART HANSEN’S VIOLIN is probably the least known of all gun century (1500 – 1510), the wheellock wheellock’s complexity and expensive action types. Its functional capability pistol was in extensive use in the construction. It usually had to be Born in Norway, Arndt (Art) 1910, he joined up with a cousin who Hansens moved to Cody. In summers, depends on two elements: a spring- German provinces. In 1517, its use was made, and repaired, by clock makers Hansen (1890 – 1963) longed to be was homesteading near Miles City, they worked at the 7D Ranch in activated, serrated wheel that revolves banned in the Hapsburg Empire, and and locksmiths. By 1550, a simpler a professional violinist until a hand Montana, and became a cowboy, Sunlight Basin—Helen as cook and when the trigger is pulled, and a piece in 1522 it was banned in Italy. It was and less costly ignition system, the injury ended his dream. Believing his herding cattle and breaking broncs. Art as handyman. During winters, of iron pyrite held in jaws that force feared as an ideal assassin’s weapon. flintlock, had been introduced, and it life would be better in America, his In 1917, Hansen married Helen ran a bakery, and Art was a it against the wheel. When the wheel Regardless of this stigma, the upper would dominate firearms types for the parents put the 12-year-old on a ship, Helen Evans, daughter of another butcher at the Cody Trading Company. spins against the pyrite, sparks are classes of the continent were quick next one hundred years. along with some money, his violin, homesteader. As their family grew “Even more important than the help generated that ignite a small amount to adapt the action to sporting arms, Still, the often beautiful and more a New Testament, and their good (two sons and two daughters), Hansen they gave us, was who Art and Helen of gunpowder in the priming pan. since it was no longer necessary reliable wheellock would continue to wishes. Hansen landed at Ellis Island supported them through butchering, were,” recalled Dewitt Dominick, The resultant “flash in the pan” is to hunt with a smoldering match be used by its wealthy and prominent and made his way to Wisconsin, where fiddle-playing at dances, fur-trapping, owner of the 7D Ranch. “[T]heir lives transferred through a small hole to that betrayed a hunter’s presence, owners well into the middle of the he worked on an uncle’s dairy farm. giving skiing lessons, and training were stories of settling the West.” I the propulsion charge in the barrel, or to stop periodically to rekindle eighteenth century. I He also attended school, becoming hunting dogs. When times turned a barber after graduating. Around tough in the Great Depression, the
Wheelock musket. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.1028
Violin. 1.69.4824.1 Art Hansen
28 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 29 Between the bookends A thousand words
Peace Medals: Negotiating Power in Early America $R 2OBERT " 0ICKERING EDITOR s 2EVIEW BY 2AYMOND * $E-ALLIE he Gilcrease Museum medal symbolized Keokuk’s in Tulsa, Oklahoma, commitment to diplomacy— Tproduced this volume in contrast to the rival chief, in conjunction with the exhibit Black Hawk, who chose the Peace Medals: Symbols of path of war—and that he wore hen you walk into the Influence and Prestige in North it “when it suited his larger newly-opened Paul Dyck America. As befits an exhibit purposes” (p. 80). Plains Indian Buffalo catalog, the essays are brief, The book is beautifully W Culture Gallery in our Plains Indian diverse, and specialized— illustrated in color with Museum, you are drawn to a photo offering perspectives that photographs of medals, as mural of this image. Touch the Clouds, range from the numismatic well as historical paintings a Minneconjou Lakota, is said to have (study of coins) to the and photographs showing been an imposing seven feet tall. ethnographic (study of the ubiquitous presence of Although not involved in the Little cultures). Usually cast in silver, peace medals in the visual Bighorn Battle in 1876, he joined with occasionally in gold, medals record. It will be of value to Crazy Horse later that year. In early depicting kings and presidents specialists, but it could also 1878 he settled at the Cheyenne River were prized diplomatic gifts serve to introduce general Agency in South Dakota, where he was that dignitaries presented to readers to this important item a leader in the Minneconjou band for American Indian leaders as of American Indian material the remainder of his life. tokens of allegiance. From culture and the multiple In this 1877 image, one of hundreds Indian perspectives, they the medals were given including meanings peace medals have collected by Paul Dyck, Touch the Clouds became valued status symbols, and Cherokee, Iowa, Ojibwa, and Sac. had over time. Q wears leggings, beaded moccasins, and objects of pride and jealousy. The final essay by Frank H. an impressive full-length war bonnet As tokens of friendship, peace Goodyear III is a thoughtful Robert B. Pickering, PhD is Senior in mid-nineteenth-century Lakota medals were “badges of power” investigation of the U.S. government’s Curator at the Gilcrease Museum and style. See similar and equally exquisite and “trophies of renown” according gift of peace medals to Sac chief Director of the Museum Science & bonnets, leggings, and other clothing to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Keokuk who had at least four, each Management program at the University and accoutrements from Plains Indian Thomas L. McKenney in 1829. Non- one received after the signing of a of Tulsa in Oklahoma. He is the tribes in the new Paul Dyck gallery at Indians have long valued them as treaty. Goodyear examines paintings former Collier-Read Deputy Director the Center. well, so that the majority of surviving and photographs of Keokuk for for Collections and Education at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, as The Wyoming Humanities Council, medals that were actually presented evidence of the medals. He finds that well as chairman of the department of the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, and to Indians are today in museums or in portraits painted in 1824 by James anthropology at the Denver Museum of Deborah and Rusty Rokita supported private collections. Otto Lewis and 1837 by Charles Bird Nature & Science. the creation of the new gallery, which Robert B. Pickering opens the King, and in a photographic portrait in Raymond J. DeMallie, PhD is opened to the public June 15. Read volume with a brief introduction to 1847, a year before his death, Keokuk Chancellors’ Professor of Anthropology Black and white postcard. Touch the Clouds wearing war bonnet and traditional regalia. Photo attributed more about the exhibit in the fall issue peace medals, their creation, and the is prominently wearing a peace and American Indian Studies at Indiana to Julius Ulke. The Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection, acquired through the generosity of the Dyck family and additional gifts of the Nielson Family and the Estate of Margaret S. Coe. P.69.810 of Points West. differences between genuine and fake medal; all these portraits were made University where he also directs the examples. Other essay authors and on occasions when the chief was American Indian Studies Research scholars write about ethnographic away from home. However, in 1835, Institute. Q One picture is worth a thousand words. Q perspectives; the governments who when George Catlin visited Keokuk Peace Medals is a 2011 publication of The McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West offers access to thousands of historic images for research and publication. To learn more, contact the library at 307.578.4063, or search the online collections at http://library.bbhc.org/cdm/. produced peace medals, such as at his home in Iowa and painted the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Spanish, French, British, and two portraits of him, no medal is and is distributed by the University of American; and those tribes to whom visible. Goodyear concludes that the Oklahoma Press.
30 I POINTS WEST SUMMER 2013 I 31 Between the bookends A thousand words
Peace Medals: Negotiating Power in Early America $R 2OBERT " 0ICKERING EDITOR s 2EVIEW BY 2AYMOND * $E-ALLIE he Gilcrease Museum medal symbolized Keokuk’s in Tulsa, Oklahoma, commitment to diplomacy— Tproduced this volume in contrast to the rival chief, in conjunction with the exhibit Black Hawk, who chose the Peace Medals: Symbols of path of war—and that he wore hen you walk into the Influence and Prestige in North it “when it suited his larger newly-opened Paul Dyck America. As befits an exhibit purposes” (p. 80). Plains Indian Buffalo catalog, the essays are brief, The book is beautifully W Culture Gallery in our Plains Indian diverse, and specialized— illustrated in color with Museum, you are drawn to a photo offering perspectives that photographs of medals, as mural of this image. Touch the Clouds, range from the numismatic well as historical paintings a Minneconjou Lakota, is said to have (study of coins) to the and photographs showing been an imposing seven feet tall. ethnographic (study of the ubiquitous presence of Although not involved in the Little cultures). Usually cast in silver, peace medals in the visual Bighorn Battle in 1876, he joined with occasionally in gold, medals record. It will be of value to Crazy Horse later that year. In early depicting kings and presidents specialists, but it could also 1878 he settled at the Cheyenne River were prized diplomatic gifts serve to introduce general Agency in South Dakota, where he was that dignitaries presented to readers to this important item a leader in the Minneconjou band for American Indian leaders as of American Indian material the remainder of his life. tokens of allegiance. From culture and the multiple In this 1877 image, one of hundreds Indian perspectives, they the medals were given including meanings peace medals have collected by Paul Dyck, Touch the Clouds became valued status symbols, and Cherokee, Iowa, Ojibwa, and Sac. had over time. Q wears leggings, beaded moccasins, and objects of pride and jealousy. The final essay by Frank H. an impressive full-length war bonnet As tokens of friendship, peace Goodyear III is a thoughtful Robert B. Pickering, PhD is Senior in mid-nineteenth-century Lakota medals were “badges of power” investigation of the U.S. government’s Curator at the Gilcrease Museum and style. See similar and equally exquisite and “trophies of renown” according gift of peace medals to Sac chief Director of the Museum Science & bonnets, leggings, and other clothing to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Keokuk who had at least four, each Management program at the University and accoutrements from Plains Indian Thomas L. McKenney in 1829. Non- one received after the signing of a of Tulsa in Oklahoma. He is the tribes in the new Paul Dyck gallery at Indians have long valued them as treaty. Goodyear examines paintings former Collier-Read Deputy Director the Center. well, so that the majority of surviving and photographs of Keokuk for for Collections and Education at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, as The Wyoming Humanities Council, medals that were actually presented evidence of the medals. He finds that well as chairman of the department of the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, and to Indians are today in museums or in portraits painted in 1824 by James anthropology at the Denver Museum of Deborah and Rusty Rokita supported private collections. Otto Lewis and 1837 by Charles Bird Nature & Science. the creation of the new gallery, which Robert B. Pickering opens the King, and in a photographic portrait in Raymond J. DeMallie, PhD is opened to the public June 15. Read volume with a brief introduction to 1847, a year before his death, Keokuk Chancellors’ Professor of Anthropology Black and white postcard. Touch the Clouds wearing war bonnet and traditional regalia. Photo attributed more about the exhibit in the fall issue peace medals, their creation, and the is prominently wearing a peace and American Indian Studies at Indiana to Julius Ulke. The Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection, acquired through the generosity of the Dyck family and additional gifts of the Nielson Family and the Estate of Margaret S. Coe. P.69.810 of Points West. differences between genuine and fake medal; all these portraits were made University where he also directs the examples. Other essay authors and on occasions when the chief was American Indian Studies Research scholars write about ethnographic away from home. However, in 1835, Institute. Q One picture is worth a thousand words. Q perspectives; the governments who when George Catlin visited Keokuk Peace Medals is a 2011 publication of The McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West offers access to thousands of historic images for research and publication. To learn more, contact the library at 307.578.4063, or search the online collections at http://library.bbhc.org/cdm/. produced peace medals, such as at his home in Iowa and painted the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Spanish, French, British, and two portraits of him, no medal is and is distributed by the University of American; and those tribes to whom visible. Goodyear concludes that the Oklahoma Press.
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