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Heritage Table: Hispanic Heritage Month
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, explore Museum galleries and learn about the very first cowboys: vaqueros! Adventure through the Museum to look and find tools that are used by vaqueros. Stop by the Museum’s Heritage Table to create an important vaquero tool of your own — a pair of espuelas (spurs)!
Signature Tour
From Albert Bierstadt’s glowing landscape Emigrants Crossing the Plains to pieces by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, see some of the finest Western art in the country. View ethnographic material from Native Americans and mountain men and learn about frontier military life. Round out the tour with a look at the evolution of the working … Continued
Signature Tour
From Albert Bierstadt’s glowing landscape Emigrants Crossing the Plains to pieces by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, see some of the finest Western art in the country. View ethnographic material from Native Americans and mountain men and learn about frontier military life. Round out the tour with a look at the evolution of the working … Continued
Signature Tour
From Albert Bierstadt’s glowing landscape Emigrants Crossing the Plains to pieces by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, see some of the finest Western art in the country. View ethnographic material from Native Americans and mountain men and learn about frontier military life. Round out the tour with a look at the evolution of the working … Continued
Signature Tour
From Albert Bierstadt’s glowing landscape Emigrants Crossing the Plains to pieces by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, see some of the finest Western art in the country. View ethnographic material from Native Americans and mountain men and learn about frontier military life. Round out the tour with a look at the evolution of the working … Continued
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Brown Bag: Fred Morohashi and the 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate)
Brown Bag: Fred Morohashi and the 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate)
Brummell Echohawk’s portrait of Japanese-American soldier Fred Morohashi evokes one of the most inspiring accounts in American history: The story of the 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate). Formed in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, this segregated Army unit of Japanese-Americans proved their loyalty to the United States on the battlefields of Italy and … Continued
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OktoberWest
OktoberWest
Raise your stein and prost to autumn at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s OktoberWest, where Bavarian celebration meets the Great Plains. Enjoy an evening of live music and games while savoring German specialty foods and beer.
