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The western meadowlark is one of the birds featured in the Draper Natural History Museum. Wyoming was the first state to make the meadowlark its state bird in 1927.
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The birds have long beaks they use to scarf up ants and beetles on the forest floor, or they drum on tree bark to find bugs.
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The Whitney Western Art Museum has more than 40 of W.H.D. Koerner's works as well as artifacts from the artist’s studio.
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Museum Minute: Abstract expressionist painter Neltje finds home and inspiration in Wyoming’s scenery“Even though you can't necessarily see an exact landscape or a mountain form or something like that, when you look at it, it feels like Wyoming." Whitney Western Art Museum Assistant Curator Ashlea Espinal says of Neltje’s painting “My Heart Tumbles.”
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Museum Minute: ‘All our dreams star Buffalo Bill’: a poet reflects on the showman’s presence in CodyArtist Evan Wambeke penned 10 poems inspired by artworks in the Whitney Western Art Museum that are now part of a community-focused digital exhibition. His poem, “Buffalo ‘Ballad’ Bill,” explores how much of the showman’s presence is still felt in the town of Cody today.
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In 1901, William F. Cody was photographed on a group hunting trip near Yellowstone National Park’s East entrance. Cody Firearms Museum Curator Danny Michael says he’s carrying an 1895 Winchester rifle.
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Cody Firearms Museum Curator Danny Michael says a lever action shotgun shows a different side to the man.
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Julie Golob is one of the athletes featured in the shooting sports gallery at the Cody Firearms Museum.
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Elizabeth, nicknamed Plinky, and her husband Adolph Topperwein rose to fame as a sharpshooting duo known as the “Fabulous Topperweins.” They showcased their marksmanship skills on stage in the first half of the 20th century touring for nearly four decades
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Around 20 rifles at the Cody Firearms Museum came from Coors Brewing Company. Curator Danny Michael said Coors used these firearms in the 1980’s to try and revive a target shooting festival that combined marksmanship with beer drinking.
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William F. Cody might not have become “Buffalo Bill” without an 1866 Springfield trapdoor needle gun. That’s according to Danny Michael, curator of the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
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One of the firearms Roosevelt used on the trip, an 1895 Winchester lever action rifle, is now on display at the museum. Michael says the highly embellished rifle tells us a bit about who Roosevelt was as a hunter.