County museum features cowboys, Indians exhibit

“Cowboys and Indians: Myth and Reality” is on exhibit through June 30 at the Clark County Museum, 1830 S. Boulder Highway in Henderson. The exhibit investigates popular romantic notions and widely held misconceptions of the Western frontier and examines some historical and contemporary realities.

With a timeline that stretches from the late 1880s to the present, “Cowboys and Indians: Myth and Reality” explores the contributions of showmen, stockmen, artists and hands to one of the Southwest’s first major narratives: the tensions between the wild untamed frontier and rapidly encroaching civilization.

In addition to the exhibit, children will enjoy the Museum Explorers Finders Guide, an Eye-Spy activity book. Museum staff have traveled through the exhibit hall, over the Ghost Town and Nature Trail, and on Heritage Street taking pictures of selected artifacts.

The museum is a 30-acre site that features an exhibit hall with a timeline exhibit about Southern Nevada from prehistoric to modern times and restored historical buildings that depict daily life from different decades in Las Vegas, Boulder City, Henderson and Goldfield.