CODY — On the lower level of the Draper Natural History Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the usually quiet area is bustling with activity.

Under the bright lights, bones are scattered across multiple tables, with several volunteers working to put them together.

At the center of it all is Lee “The Boneman” Post, who is in Cody for two weeks to assemble the skeleton of a 3-year-old male bison, building it bone by bone right on the museum floor.

“It's a puzzle, but it’s absolutely logical,” he said of articulation, or putting bones together. “The way these pieces fit together and form and make joints, and the sequences, it’s art and nature.”

Based in Homer, Alaska, Post has spent more than 30 years putting together the skeletons of whales, moose, wolves, sea turtles and many

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