Written by Andrew-Rossi on May 5, 2021
A lawsuit alleging employment discrimination and wrongful termination has been filed against the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and several current and former employees.
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West faces more litigation in 2021. But the museum won’t be facing this lawsuit in Park County – it was filed in a federal court.
“Bonnie Smith vs. the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association” was filed in the United States District Court for the State of Wyoming on Tuesday, May 4. It names the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association and six current and former employees as defendants.
The Buffalo Bill Memorial Association is a non-profit organization that does business as the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. It manages the museums and handles all the legal business, assets, and employees.
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Early one morning, eight volunteers surrounded a table with a 400 pound grizzly bear carcass in its center. Draper Natural History Museum Assistant curator Corey Anco said they are defleshing the animal. They are removing all of the meat around the bones, all the meat around the ribs, all the meat around the vertebrae, said Anco. And they re trying to get this as clean as we can reasonably so.
Anco said once the bones are cleaned as well as possible without hurting them, the bones are then given to flesh eating beetles. They will then clean those bones to the best of their ability, he said. And they do a remarkable job with minimal or no damage at all to the skeletons as opposed to boiling it, which can really kind of break down the integrity of the skeleton.