Texas Jack could have been the person about whom the phrase “tall, dark and handsome” was coined. And Giuseppina Morlacc…
Building Your Western Library: Steve Friesen The former director of the Buffalo Bill Museum shares his book recommendations.
Steve Friesen recently retired after 22 years as director of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave. He is the author of Buff…
Legendary Westerners Review of Deanne Stillman's Blood Brothers.
Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship Between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill by Deanne Stillman (Simon and …
Buffalo Bill & His “Blood-Thirsty” Indians The hardest-fighting tribe of the American West devoured European audiences alive...with eloquence and wit!
“Heap-big Injun likum Paris?” asked The New York Times reporter. Chief Daniel Black Horn replied, “I think it migh…
Lakota Globetrotter Sam Lone Bear, a learned dandy, represented his people on the world stage.
Sam Lone Bear was the Beau Brummell of his time and a savant. At least that was what the newspapers reported in 1899, an…
Paris Catches Wild West Fever Buffalo Bill’s Wild West nearly eclipsed the 1889 exposition that boasted the brand-new Eiffel Tower.
Paris was a city Buffalo Bill’s Wild West hoped to conquer. Cody’s show proved a sensation. Parisians flocked to Neuilly…
Rocky Mountain National Park Rush to the Rockies and see grand Western art, iconic grave sites and a settler’s wonderland.
During Colorado’s gold “Rush to the Rockies,” Joel Estes was hunting with his son in 1859 when they stumbled across beau…
Celebrating Buffalo Bill
Johnny Baker founded the Buffalo Bill Museum in 1921 near William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s grave on Lookout Mountain in …