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firearms and other subjects. Clothing and The sculpture Buffalo Bill—the Scout
items used by the Native American actors in front of the center was created by
in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show are on dis- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who estab-
play at the Plains Indian Museum, filled lished Manhattan’s Whitney Museum of
with fascinating and beautiful examples of American Art in 1931 and was a valuable
Plains Indian artistry from mid-19th Cen- patron of the Cody museum. The sculp-
tury to the present. The Whitney Western ture overlooks two teepees, a stage-
Art Museum contains art from renowned coach and, in summer months, the
painters and sculptures from the early 19th campfires where 2 Mules Chuckwagon
Century to the present, including Edgar cooks offer a special barbecue on the
Paxson’s 1899 oil Custer’s Last Stand, Rem- grounds, which will certainly be on my
ington’s bronze Coming through the Rye itinerary nex t time I’m in town.
and other important works.
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