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From the beginning, the American West has been a land that we created -- of larger-than-life heroes and villains -- where everything was bigger, better, hotter, colder, richer, poorer, heaven or hell. One thing for certain -- it was not a place for the weak of spirit. The land could make a fool of anyone. It took individuals with plenty of gumption to stick it out. Perhaps that is why so many of the tales about America center around those who went West -- the trapper, the Indian, the miner, the settler in his covered wagon, the cowboy, the rancher, the frontier soldier, the outlaw, the independent woman. In many cases, it is hard to tell where the line between fact and fiction lie. One thing for certain: The American West is the greatest story of all time. And if some of it is not true, perhaps it should have been. What wax
figures are there in the museum?
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1) Before the White
man: The Indian & Buffalo 2) Lewis & Clark Expedition & Sacajawea: Exploring 3) John Colter, Mountain Man 4) Jim Bridger, "The Biggest Liar" 5) Capt. Benjamin Bonneville, Spy? 6) John Charles Fremont, "The Pathfinder" 7) Kit Carson, Mountain Man & Guide 8) Mormon Hand Cart Brigade & Brigham Young 9) Father Jean deSmet meets Flathead & Nez Perce 10) Buffalo Bill Cody & the Death of Yellowhand 11) Charles Russell, The Cowboy's Painter 12) Butch Cassidy & the Hole-in-th-Wall Gang 13) William Henry Jackson & the Hayden Survey 14) The Frontier Lawman: Jail time 15) The Gallows & the Hangman 16) Thomas Edison: Let There Be Light 17) Ella Watson ("Cattle Kate"): Homesteader or Thief? 18) Mining Ghost Town: When the Gold is Gone 19) Esther Hobart Morris: Women and the Right to Vote 20) Dr. John Osborne & "Big Nose" George Parrot |
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