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This list of museums in Wyoming encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Buffalo: One of Wyoming's leading examples of Gothic Revival architecture, an 1889 church whose original members were key figures in Buffalo's and Johnson County's early history. [24] 21: Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch: February 23, 2016 : Forest Service Rd. 293
Khosrova, Elaine. Butter: A Rich History (2016) excerpt; Kurlansky, Mark. Milk: A 10,000-Year History (2019) excerpt; McMurry, Sally. Transforming rural life: Dairying families and agricultural change, 1820-1885 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1995). Porter, John. The History and Economics of the New Hampshire Dairy Industry (University of New Hampshire ...
Elaine Khosrova traces the invention of butter back to Neolithic-era Africa 8,000 BC in her book. [31] A later Sumerian tablet, dating to approximately 2,500 B.C., describes the butter making process, from the milking of cattle, [ 32 ] [ 33 ] while contemporary Sumerian tablets identify butter as a ritual offering.
The five museums include the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Plains Indians Museum, the Whitney Western Art Museum, the Draper Natural History Museum, and the Cody Firearms Museum. Founded in 1917 to preserve the legacy and vision of Col. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody , the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is the oldest and most comprehensive museum ...
In the late 1980s the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum acquired and moved into the library. [3] The original museum was founded 1957 and focuses on Johnson County and frontier history. The museum's dioramas feature historic events and life along the Bozeman Trail , including the Wagon Box Fight , the Johnson County War between ranchers in the 1890s ...
The Main Street Historic District of Buffalo, Wyoming, also known as Buffalo Main Street Historic District, is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The district included 12 contributing buildings. [1]
"Harrison's" grandson, William C. Holland married Marian Josephine Richter on November 29, 1929. William C. was the mayor of Buffalo from 1946 to 1950. Willam C. also served in the Wyoming State Legislature from 1943 to 1945, and from 1971 to 1978. [4] He was also the chairman of the committee that produced the centennial history of Buffalo."