Museum merger dead

The merger between cowboys and Indians was supposed to enhance two Los Angeles museums of the American West. Dana Bartholomew in the Daily News.

But the dust-up between the Autry National Center and defenders of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian has left a $175 million museum expansion dead and the city's oldest museum gravely wounded.

After negotiations with the city to safeguard the Mt. Washington museum failed, the Autry this week shelved plans for its grand expansion in Griffith Park.