Clue! at the Cowboy
“A crime has been committed in Prosperity Junction. A prominent citizen has been murdered. You have been deputized to help find out what happened.” Relive your childhood by playing the …
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Read the West Book Club: Killers of the Flower Moon
Back by popular demand; read before seeing the movie! From #1 New York Times best-selling author David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon is a twisting, haunting, true-life murder mystery …
Curator Conversations – Forensics and Historical Objects
The National Cowboy Museum is the repository of a purse allegedly belonging to Bonnie Parker. To determine the veracity of that claim, the Museum turned to the W. Roger Webb …
Brown Bag: Toys R Western: The Lasting Pop Culture Influence of Western-Themed Play 
Western-themed toys, games, comics and other kids’ products hit their height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s alongside the TV Westerns. Yet, today they can be seen as more …
Brown Bag Lunch Series: Wild West Toys
The exhibition Playing Cowboy is drawn entirely of selections from the Johnie and Bob Terry collection in Springtown, Texas. The Terrys own and operate Wild West Toys, a company that …
Curator Conversations: Cartoons and Caricatures: The Playful Side of Western Artists
In conjunction with the exhibition ARToons, join Kera Newby, Director of the Dickinson Research Center and Curator of Archives at the National Cowboy Museum, for an evening exploring the cartoony …
Brown Bag Lunch Series: Playing Cowboy
Since there have been children in what is now called the American West, toys have been part of their lives. These toys often helped them “become” someone else: a brave …
Date with the Duke: North to Alaska
John Wayne and Stewart Granger strike it rich in this rousing comedy adventure set during the Alaskan gold rush. When prospectors Sam McCord (Wayne) and George Pratt (Granger) hit the …
Read the West Book Club: Lonesome Dove
The Pulitzer Prize–winning American classic of the American West follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. A love story, an adventure and an epic of the frontier, …
Brown Bag: Exploring Comics
Comic books emerged in the 1930s. Through a natural evolution, cartoons developed into comic books, first through publications containing compilations of cartoon re-prints, then as books which featured unique content. Superheroes entered the …
