Charles Goodnight letters 1906.

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Charles Goodnight letters 1906.

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This collection, contained in a folder, includes one letter, dating April 12, 1906, from Charles Goodnight pertaining to a donation of a bison calf to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science; a second letter accepting the donation; and a computer printout of a biography of Goodnight. Goodnight was the pioneering developer of cattle trails in the 1860s through 1870s, and established a bison ranch in the Palo Duro area of north Texas in the early part of the twentieth century.

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Alfred M. Bailey Library

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Alfred M. Bailey Library

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Goodnight, Charles, 1836-1929

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Denver Museum of Nature and Science

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The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has 104 dioramas depicting the context of many of the Museum's collections of specimens and artifacts. From around 1910, the first diorama-type displays at DMNS consisted of flat oil paintings placed behind specimens. Installation of the first of the present-day displays began in 1936, under the direction of Alfred M. Bailey, the Museum's director from 1936 to 1969. Bailey introduced the use of curved and domed backgrounds for habitat dioramas, lighting ...