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Museum Minute: How A Museum Decides What To Collect

1:00 The Cody Firearms Museum has over 7,000 firearms in the collection. So are they looking to add anything to the collection? Danny Micheal, the curator of the museum, said yes, but we tend to be really, really selective. Micheal said the mission of the museum is to interpret all of firearms history. So in that way, we can kind of justify anything from a hand cannon to, you know, something like a very modern 3d printed firearm, since that s been in the news lately. But they do still need to be conscious of what they can care for, manage and make sure to be good stewards of the collection they have already. Plus, when it comes to certain topics, Michael said the collection is already pretty well represented.

Museum Minute: The Biography That Made Colt Buntline Revolvers Famous

1:00 Colt Buntline Revolvers weren t very well known until a biography was written about Wyatt Earp. Earp was an American law enforcement officer who served as deputy marshal Tombstone, Arizona Territory during the late 1800s and into early 1900s. The book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal was written by Stuart N. Lake in 1931. The story was largely fictionalized but portrayed as a biography. In the biography, it s described that Earp ordered a number of these guns in this specific configuration with a long barrel and a stock, said Danny Micheal, the curator of the Cody Firearms Museum. These became to be known as the Buntline special after a figure, Ned Buntline.

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