, i first visited this wonderful institution in the company with two of my high school chums, steve horowitz and don fork, and we had just graduated from short ridge high school in indianapolis, and we had don's volkswagen bus and had simon & garfunkel's "america" ringing in our ears, and we went out in search of america. i'm still looking. [ laughter ] well, the boys were anxious to get to the climax of our trip, our final destination, the really golden dream at the end of the western rainbow for all young men, las vegas, nevada. [ laughter ] but i would not be a party to the trip unless we -- unless we visited first the black hills and then the little big horn battlefield and then here to cody, wyoming to -- to this museum, and they reluctantly agreed to -- to that, and they were perhaps not as delighted as i was by this institution in 1968, but they -- they pretended to be charmed. well, it's now been 49 years since i made that journey. 51 years from the time of buffalo bill's death until i made the journey, 49 years now since i did that, and my point to you is just how short our history