Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody
The Buffalo Bill Historical Center, over 200,000 square feet in size, is five museums in one. Tour the Whitney Gallery of Western Art and view works by Remington, Russell and Bierstadt. Visit the Plains Indian Museum and see a Nez Perce tipi as well as art and artifacts of the Crow and other Northern Plains peoples. Check out the gun collection at the Cody Firearms Museum and observe 400 years of change. Walk the halls of the Buffalo Bill Museum and chronicle the life of Colonel Cody and his Wild West Show. Discover the exhibits at the Draper Museum of Natural History and explore the diversity... Read More of the Greater Yellowstone region. The Buffalo Bill Historical Center may not be the American Museum of Natural History nor the Louvre but it boasts a Western collection few museums can claim.
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Frederick Remington
 Frederick Remington, born October 4, 1861 in Canton, New York, is an American artist best known for his chronicles of the Ol' West. Remington was an illustrator, painter and later in life became a sculptor too. His preferred subjects were people - cowboys, cavalrymen and American Indians - and animals - horses and buffalo. Remington depicted his subjects just as they appeared, a style known as realism, and his works showed the drama and action of life in the American West. And while Remington enjoyed drawing from an early age he was a failed sheep farmer and failed saloon keeper before becoming a successful Western artist. |