beautiful piece and he was a master of india ink and the brush and becomes good friends with bradford brintonnd he goes on to collect over 230 pieces. we are now in the brinton house. this is the original part of the institution. for the first 50 years of the institution's history, this was the main thing to see here. to 1892, states back william moncrief and his brother built the house and william lives here with his wife until 1910 when he sells the biggest part of the ranch to the gallatin family. in 1923, bradford brinton buys the house and he puts it into this shape in 1928 after a remodel. in it five bedrooms including bradford's big bedroom . when brinton remodeled it in 1927, he made sure every bedroom had its own bath. home for a ideal country gentleman is what it was. this was the repository of his art. this is where he came to relax and have a good time in sheridan and those days. it was basically the heartbeat of the dude ranch industry so there were lots of dude ranches and bradford had very good relations with those people and entertained them here. the history of this area is w

brinton buysford the house. he puts it into this shape in 1928 after a remodel. it,as five bedrooms in including bradford's big bedroom. when brinton remodeled it, he made sure every bedroom had its own bath. it was a good home for a country gentleman. this was the repository for his art. this was to relax and have a good time. sheridan was the heartbeat of the dude ranch industry. there were lots of dude ranches and bradford had good relations is -- relations with those people. is whatory of this area gives rise to that marvelous museum building. what we would like visitors to walk away with is a better picture of what the west was. andasn't all indian fights cowboys herding cattle. it was more refined than anybody ever thought it was in this area. thats a part of history most people thought had ever existed out here. >> the c-span cities tour is exploring the american story. john is the first and third weekends of each month as we take both in american history tv on the road. to watch videos from any of the places we have been, go to c-span.org/cities tour. follow us on twitter at c-span cities tour get