Draper Natural History Museum, Buffalo Bill Center of the West Cody Wyoming 2019
Opened in 2002, the Draper Museum of Natural History portrays the natural world as it appeared to early inhabitants and explorers. Trailing down a circular walkway from the alpine tundra to the plains, one hears the far-off cry of the wolf, the crackle of a forest fire, or a gust of wind whisking the pine trees. Along the way, one develops a keen understanding of the ways humans interact with their environment, especially in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. This first natural history museum of the 21st century employs high-tech and interactive audio and visual display panels and open spaces for hands-on entertainment and education for the whole family.
Draper Natural History Museum in the Greater Yellowstone Region
Draper Natural History Museum is one of the five museums within the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, just an hour from Yellowstone National Park. For more information about the Center, feel free to visit our website
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Gear up to explore the Greater Yellowstone region with a stop at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, where visitors discover and explore the authentic story of the American West. We are located in northwest Wyoming, and we're lucky enough to have Yellowstone National Park in our backyard— the Center of the West is a mere 50 miles from the park's East Gate.
We have five enormous galleries covering a range of topics relevant to the American West.
Our Plains Indian Museum covers the past and ongoing cultures of the Great Plains.
Our Draper Natural History Museum is THE museum on the Greater Yellowstone Region and Ecosystem. This is a great way to learn more about the wild you came to see in Yellowstone National Park.
The Cody Firearms Museum has a massive collection of significant firearms, known for their place in history or the attractive nature of their design.
The Whitney Western Art Museum showcases the artwork of the masters of Western painting like Remington and Russell, and offers a variety of artistic perspectives on the West from the distant past to the current day.
The Buffalo Bill Museum focuses on the man, William F. Cody, who was probably the most famous person in the world during much of his lifetime. He was one of the first to share the American West with the world and we are proud to continue his legacy.
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Cody is a town in northwest Wyoming. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West has 5 museums. These include the Buffalo Bill Museum, tracing William F. Cody’s life with multimedia displays, and the Draper Natural History Museum, with wildlife exhibits. Nearby, Old Trail Town is a re-created frontier town with 1800s log cabins and a saloon. Buffalo Bill Scenic Byway winds past craggy cliffs to Yellowstone National Park East Entrance.
Buffalo Bill Museum Interior and Exterior Views, Cody Wyoming 2019
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, formerly known as the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, is a complex of five museums and a research library featuring art and artifacts of the American West located in Cody, Wyoming.
The award-winning Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming is just an hour from Yellowstone National Park, and devotes itself to sharing the story of the authentic American West. Visit our five museums--all under one roof: Buffalo Bill Museum, Cody Firearms Museum, Draper Natural History Museum, Plains Indian Museum, Whitney Western Art Museum. The Center also included the McCracken Research Library.
Buffalo Bill Center of the West Video Overview featuring the Buffalo Bill Band
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, tells the fascinating story of the American West. Its history, culture, nature, and more come alive in five museums: Buffalo Bill Museum, Cody Firearms Museum, Draper Natural History Museum, Plains Indian Museum, and Whitney Western Art Museum. For more information about the Center, feel free to visit our website
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Lee Haines, Public Relations Director for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, takes you on a personalized tour of the 5 museums that comprise the Center located in Cody, WY. Lee first introduces you to the Draper Museum of Natural History which teaches you all about the history of the greater Yellowstone Region, then shows you the Buffalo Bill museum where you can see Buffalo Bills original boyhood home and learn about Buffalo Bills life and the impact he had on the mythology of the great Wild West. Next, he shows you the Plains Indian Museum where you can learn all about the history of the Plains Indian peoples, from the past up to today. He then shows you the Cody Firearms Museum that teaches you the evolution, development, and impact of Firearms, from the 16th Century to today. It happens to be the largest, most complete private collection of firearms in the world. And finally, Lee shows you just a few of the Paintings to be seen in the Whitney Museum of Western Art. The Center is truly a place you wont want to miss when visiting the Cody, WY area. For more information check out their website at bbhc.com
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West - Long Live the Wild West!
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, is where the American West lives. Find your true West here in our five museums: Buffalo Bill Museum, Whitney Western Art Museum, Plains Indian Museum, Cody Firearms Museum, and Draper Natural History Museum. Visit us in person or online at
Buffalo Bill Center of the West: 2004 Promotional Video
Promotional video for Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2004. Draper Natural History Museum, Plains Indian Museum, Whitney Western Art Museum, Cody Firearms Museum, Buffalo Bill Museum, in Cody Wyoming, near Yellowstone National Park. For more information about the Center, feel free to visit our website
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This museum, along with the Plains Indian Museum, gives visitors the opportunity to learn about Native American life.
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- ... Après-midi fort instructive dans le Buffalo Bill Historical Center qui rassemble 5 musées aux thèmes complémentaires ...
- ... Saturday 8/20 We started the day at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center with it's 5 museums - Cody Firearms, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Plains Indian Museum, Buffalo Bill Museum and the Draper ...
- ... We visited the Buffalo Bill Historical Center which is a complex of five museums celebrating the culture of the west ...
- ... From the nightly shoot-out in front of the Irma Hotel to the internationally-recognized Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the Wild West is all around ...
- ... We then went to more museums located in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody ...
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Scenes from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West Museum
We highly recommend a trip to Cody Wyoming on the way into Yellowstone National Park to visit the Buffalo Bill Center of the West Smithsonian’ museums. It's really five museums in one. If you have limited time to visit, skip the Buffalo Bill exhibit and the firearms exhibit. But don’t miss the Whitney Western Art Museum, the Draper Natural History Museum and the Plains Indians Museum.
[One correction: The voice at the Remington Studio isn't really his daughter, according to a member of the staff. It's a local woman doing the voice over].
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Buffalo Bill Comes Home
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The Buffalo Bill Center of the West opened in its current location in 1968. At that time it was called the Buffalo Bill Museum and was right next to the current Whitney Western Art Museum. The Center was large back then, but it still didn't have the Draper Natural History Museum, the Plains Indians Museum, or Cody Firearms Museum.
This film shows an excerpt from a film made at the opening of the new Buffalo Bill back in 1968. We found it inside of the Center's Vaults, and it's been some time since it was last seen. It will likely be brand new to most of you! The hair and dress styles alone make for a wonderful time capsule; the same goes for the timbre and tone of the omniscient Buffalo Bill narrator voice.
Did you know that there used to be a serious conflict over where William F. Cody was buried? Do you remember when it was put to rest in 1968? Was it actually put to rest? Does anyone in Wyoming still harbor resentment over the burial of Buffalo Bill in COLORADO, on Lookout Mountain? Do you have a theory that he's actually not buried there? Feel free to share.
The new Buffalo Bill Museum opened in time for the 2012 summer season. It has been fully re-imagined and re-designed. The re-installed Buffalo Bill Museum respects the traditions of the past while utilizing new interactive and multimedia exhibits with some of the latest technology. The new Buffalo Bill section will wow you, as former Senator Al Simpson said.
It has attractions that will grip and engage every member of your family, and when viewed alongside the 4 other incredible wings of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the answer is clear: this place is worth a visit. The Yellowstone Natural History wing covers all of the science and ecology that anybody ask for, to supplement a trip to Yellowstone National Park. The Plains Indian Cultures wing offers a broad and inside look at the cultures that occupied the West before White Settlers came, and it continues to the current Plains Indian Cultures that are still alive in the West. The Cody Firearms wing has a gigantic collection of firearms that will blow you away, including the impressive Winchester Arms Collection, and more. The Whitney Gallery of Western Art features the artwork of the American West from Master artists such as Remington and Russell.
Cody, WY is located just outside the East Gate to Yellowstone National Park, and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is worth the trip.
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Buffalo Bill (Personal) Museum, Buffalo Bill Center of the West Cody Wyoming 2019
William Frederick Buffalo Bill Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in Toronto Township, Ontario, Canada, before the family returned to the Midwest and settled in the Kansas Territory.
Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his father's death, and became a rider for the Pony Express at age 15. During the American Civil War, he served the Union from 1863 to the end of the war in 1865. Later he served as a civilian scout for the US Army during the Indian Wars, receiving the Medal of Honor in 1872.
One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill's legend began to spread when he was only twenty-three. Shortly thereafter he started performing in shows that displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Indian Wars. He founded Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1883, taking his large company on tours in the United States and, beginning in 1887, in Great Britain and continental Europe.
Golden Colorado, Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave
See the world through her Asperger eyes. On a cold December Sunday in 2016, we visited the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave in Golden Colorado. The views are spectacular and it’s only 20 minutes from Denver. If you are ever driving past Denver on interstate 70, be sure to check it out. We had a good day. B and B Adventures - Like us on Facebook
Stopped at Yellowstone Valley Inn Restaurant - Cody - Wyoming
In this video we going towards South Dakota and on our way we stopped at Yellowstone Valley Inn lodge,This rustic mountain lodge is off Highway 16 on the Shoshone River, 16 miles from Old Trail Town and 33 miles from the East Entrance of Yellowstone National Park.
Cody is a town in northwest Wyoming. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West has 5 museums. These include the Buffalo Bill Museum, tracing William F. Cody’s life with multimedia displays, and the Draper Natural History Museum, with wildlife exhibits. Nearby, Old Trail Town is a re-created frontier town with 1800s log cabins and a saloon. Buffalo Bill Scenic Byway winds past craggy cliffs to Yellowstone National Park.
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Wyoming Outdoor Hall of Fame at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
The Wyoming Outdoor Hall of Fame is in the Draper Natural History Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. You can see it on the left wall just past the entrance to the Draper. This video answers the question of why the Wyoming Outdoor Hall of Fame is at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Special thanks to Richard Chapman for the wildlife footage he shot for the Greater Yellowstone Sights and Sounds project. Additional footage by Jeremy Goodman and Penny Preston.
Edited by Jeremy Goodman. Narrated by Dr. Charles Preston, senior curator of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
For more information about the Center, feel free to visit our website
The Nebraska Prairie Museum
A One Tank Trip story, about the Nebraska Prairie Museum, in Holdrege Nebraska.
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An amazing set of museums in Cody, WY. This is the Draper Mt to Plains
Tony Mong with There & Back Again: Annual Ungulate Movement in Eastern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Tony Mong, Wildlife Biologist with the Cody District of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, presents To There & Back Again: The Annual Movement of Ungulates in the Eastern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
The Eastern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (EGYE) is one of the most intact ecosystems in the lower 48 states. The complexity of managing this system is accentuated by the movement patterns of mule deer, elk, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats in the area. Technology drives our ability to investigate this system and the movements of these incredibly resilient animals. We are fortunate to have data from satellite radio telemetry and long-term trail cameras to help us understand these complexities in the EGYE. In this talk, Mong uses these technologies to explore how the movement patterns of these ungulates overlap, change, or stay the same, and ultimately how the patterns drive their ability to survive in this ecosystem as well as how that drives the management of these species.
Mong received his Bachelor of Science degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Science in 2001 from the University of Missouri, and a Master of Science degree in Wildlife Ecology from Kansas State University in 2005, studying resource selection of Upland Sandpipers in relation to differing fire management applications in a Prairie ecosystem. From 2005 to 2009, he worked as a project manager for a research project that determined the demographic, survival, and harvest rates of mourning doves in a landscape managed for mourning dove hunting.
In 2010, Mong began his career working for the Wyoming Game & Fish Department as a Senior Wildlife Biologist in Baggs, where he successfully raised funds and coordinated research to study elk response to beetle kill, pronghorn movement and survival in relation to anthropocentric development, sex-based differences in mule deer migration route use, body conditions scoring of mule deer using trail cameras, and alternative methods for mark-recapture techniques in mule deer. Mong has been in his current position since 2017.