Actors Bruce Boxleitner and the late Fess Parker; animal scientist, best-selling author and austism advocate Temple Grandin; the late historian and author Walter Prescott Webb; and the late spur maker and cowboy Jerry Cates will be celebrated at the 51st anniversary Western Heritage Awards next month at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
The Board of Directors at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum announced today the 2012 inductees who will be celebrated at the April 21 gala.
Michael Martin Murphey brings Cowboy Christmas Ball back to Oklahoma City For the 17th year, the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter is helping the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum continue the American holiday tradition.
n Murphey is bringing a truly American Christmas tradition to Oklahoma City.…
Landscape painter Wilson Hurley is shown with his "New Mexico Suite," one of his five "Windows to the West" triptychs that hang in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in this 2005 photo from The Oklahoman Archives.
Acclaimed Tulsa-born landscape painter Wilson Hurley (1924-2008) will be featured in a television narrative titled “Wilson Hurley: Envisioning the West” airing at 9:30 p.m. Sunday on local PBS station OETA.
Hurley is best known for creating the five massive triptych paintings titled “Windows to the…
Check out this NewsOK video taken Saturday at the 15th Annual Septemberfest, a free fall festival that takes place at the Oklahoma Governor’s Mansion and Oklahoma History Center.
Gov. Frank Keating and first lady Cathy Keating started Septemberfest in 1997. The activity-packed, family-friendly event is organized by the nonprofit Friends of the Mansion and hosted each year by the governor and first family. This year’s event was the first for Gov. Mary Fallin and her husband, first gentleman Wade Christensen, to host. To read my interview with Fallin previewing…
Landscape painter Wilson Hurley is shown with his "New Mexico Suite," one of his five "Windows to the West" triptychs that hang in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in this 2005 photo from The Oklahoman Archives.
A detail of Wilson Hurley's "Wyoming Suite," one of the five "Windows to the West" triptychs that hangs at the National Cowboy Museum.
Today’s featured event:
View “Envisioning the West,” an exhibit dedicated to acclaimed Tulsa-born landscape painter Wilson…
Jim Garling will be among the performers at today's National Day of the American Cowboy celebration at the National Cowboy Museum. (Photo by David McDaniel, the Oklahoman Archives)
Meet “Amazing Race” contender Jet McCoy, hear live music by Gary S. Pratt and Picket Wire, Jim Garling and A Bar Bunkhouse Band and see the John Wayne film “The Cowboys” at the National Day of the American Cowboy celebration from 9:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. today at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700…
Here are my picks for the top 5 Best Bets happening this weekend around Oklahoma, as listed in Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. For more event options, go to www.wimgo.com:
1. Meet “Amazing Race” contender Jet McCoy, hear live music by Gary S. Pratt and Picket Wire, Jim Garling and A Bar Bunkhouse Band and see the John Wayne film “The Cowboys” at the National Day of the American Cowboy celebration from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the…
The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum will join venues across the nation in hosting special activities Saturday to mark the National Day of the American Cowboy
The museum, 1700 NE 63, will honor the iconic American Cowboy from 9:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Saturday.
“The cowboy is our nation’s greatest ambassador throughout the world, representing the most admired virtues of the American people,” said Don Reeves, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture, on the popularity of the cowboy, in a news release.…
The 38th annual Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale featuring more than 100 artists will open Friday at The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
The exhibit will include more than 300 Western paintings and sculptures by the finest contemporary Western artists in the nation. Art seminars, receptions and an awards banquet round out the exhibition’s opening events Friday-Sunday. Reservations are required for most opening weekend activities.
The exhibiting artists bring a diversity of styles…
Lillie Fuller, 5, has her photo taken while riding a longhorn bull at the 2010 Chuck Wagon Gathering and Children's Cowboy Festival at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. (Oklahoman Archive photo by Paul Hellstern)
Here are my Best Bets for the long Memorial Day weekend, as listed in Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. For more traditional Memorial Day weekend festivities happening around the state, click here.
1. Taste outdoor cooking, participate in children’s activities and take in Western entertainment…
