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Categorized In: Annie Oakley Society
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Categorized In: Annie Oakley Society
Categorized In: Exhibition
Categorized In: Exhibition
Categorized In: Exhibition
Categorized In: Annie Oakley Society
Categorized In: Exhibition
August 6, 2020
Prix de West Works in Progress
Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting some Prix de West 2020 art and artists on our blog. There’s so much to share and we don’t want you to miss a single piece of this fantastic Western art so keep checking back. This week we’re going to share some art while it was […]
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July 9, 2020
#hashtagblog
We have some awesome people that work at the Museum. They’ve got a million stories to tell you. You’re gonna learn a lot.
Categorized In: Collections
July 7, 2020
Find Your West
History is more than a timeline. At its core, it is about people. Not just the famous and infamous, but the everyday and ordinary.
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March 20, 2018
Fields of Fearlessness
Stories about Fields vary from source to source, but the most common theme is of her brazen, bold, and daring personality. There is no question she was a strong African American woman in a time when being a woman alone was stifling and offered few options.
Categorized In: Dickinson Research Center
September 19, 2017
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Rather than being untold stories, however, for many these are stories well known. Stories of individuals such as my grandfather, James Nidey, who today at age 96 still lives on the same section of land where, as a young man, he endured the 1930s in the epicenter of the Dust Bowl:
Categorized In: Dickinson Research Center
July 31, 2017
A Cowboy’s Funeral
Cowboys lived and invariably died here. Though the flagstone structures built up to protect their graves are beginning to crumble due to time, they are still standing nevertheless.
Categorized In: Cowboy
June 29, 2017
Seven Things You Didn’t Know About the Chisholm Trail
Ironically, Jesse Chisholm never knew that cowboys adopted his name for the most famous cattle trail in the West.
Categorized In: Cowboy
June 27, 2016
SUNDOG
When one considers that the appearance of sundogs actually presaged the Battle of the Washita, it becomes clear how an abstract work of art, when viewed through a certain contextual prism, can reveal a story as profound as that of the United States’ conflict with Plains Indian cultures of the 19th century.
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November 10, 2015
Jackson Sundown: Busting Broncs, Breaking Barriers
He challenged the perceptions and definitions of identity. He demonstrated that people are multi-faceted and not one dimensional. He was not a Nez Perce or a cowboy. He was a Nez Perce and a cowboy.
