by Johnny D. Boggs | Aug 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
What we learned over the past year is this: Communication is important, even in museums. In August 2013, History Colorado Center closed its exhibit on the Sand Creek Massacre after complaints from Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians because those tribes had not been...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Apr 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
The American West, imagined and celebrated worldwide in art and literature, film and television, is equally a land of grace and grief. Since Columbus sailed the Atlantic, world history changed, not just in the Americas, but, around the globe, with the near immediate...
by TW Editors | Mar 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ART SHOWS Cowgirl Up! Wickenburg, AZ, April 1-30: Opening gala at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum kicks off the invitational Western Art exhibit by women. 928-684-2272 • WesternMuseum.org...
by Bob Boze Bell | Jan 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
February 1, 1896 Albert Jennings Fountain is agitated. It’s cold and windy, and his young son is coming down with a cold. Fountain is anxious to get the eight year old home to his mother, but his discomfort has more to do with three suspicious horseback riders who...
by Jana Bommersbach | Nov 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
What comes first to mind when you want to talk Western history? Probably Texas. Caroline Frick guessed that, even while she was working at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., or at Warner Bros. in Los Angeles, California. So when she came to the University of...