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Juneteenth, a holiday recognizing the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S., has been a federal holiday since 2021, but about a third of states still don’t recognize it as a paid day off, including the Equality State.
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Former Wyoming State Archeologist and author Mark Miller has written a new book, titled “A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections of Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family.” Wyoming Public Radio’s Grady Kirkpatrick recently spoke with Miller about the book.
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More than 30 Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show posters produced over 100 years ago are part of a new exhibition at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Wyoming Public Radio’s Olivia Weitz spoke with Assistant Curator Sam Hanna about the new exhibit and the careful steps taken to display the posters for the show.
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Buffalo Bill Museum Curator Jeremy Johnston says some of the images in posters that are part of a new exhibition opening this month are ones you might not expect.
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A new exhibition opening later this month at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West shares posters that were used to advertise the Wild West show in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Wyomingite Walt Gasson has published award winning essays in "Wyoming Wildlife Magazine," "High Country News" and "Trout Magazine." They’re now included in a new book titled "Craven Creek." Wyoming Public Media’s Grady Kirkpatrick recently spoke with the author about the essays.
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Rosa Bonheur, a 19th century French painter and sculptor most well-known for her highly detailed depictions of animals, never visited the American West. But Whitney Western Art Museum Assistant Curator Ashlea Espinal says she developed a fascination with the place through interacting with American artists and her friendship with William F. Cody.
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A fourteen-piece ragtime orchestra made up of Black musicians performed with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show for two seasons in the early 1900s.
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Known as the “red house,” it was originally owned by descendants of the region’s early settlers. It was slated for demolition before it was picked up off its foundation and moved 50 miles south.This was all coordinated by the local organization Shacks on Racks, which also bought the land and renovated the house, for a fraction of the typical price of new construction.
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At the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, there’s a wall-size panoramic photo of Wild West Show performers, and in it there's a group of Black musicians.Siriana Lundgren studies the musical history of the American West as a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. There wasn't much known about Ferris's Satisfied Musical Entertainers, who toured with the Wild West Show for two seasons in the early 1900s – until Siriana interned at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West last summer.