"The Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody"

Features art and artifacts representative of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Discusses insights about the West and its people revealed by these materials and the course of art as it was influenced by the wilderness experience.

"The nineteenth century saw major changes in the U.S. frontier and in the interactions among the peoples living in its borderlands. The Old Northwest territories, which became Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, were opened to European American settlement, disrupting a native economy well adapted to the fur trade. Eventually the Great Lakes tribes were consolidated in reservations or pushed beyond the Mississippi to settle adjacent to Plains Indians...