HERITAGE AWARDS Schedule Of Events FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2018 10:00 a.m. Western Heritage Awards Workshop Free to the public with Museum admission Bert and Montie Carol Madera 5:30 p.m. Western Heritage Cocktail Reception Reservations required

SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2018 *Reservations required for all Saturday evening events; cocktails included in ticket price 11:00 a.m. Western Heritage Awards Panel Discussion Free to the public with Museum admission

5:00 p.m. Western Heritage Awards Cocktail Hour MUSEUM PARTNERS Devon Energy Corp. 6:00 p.m. Welcome and Dinner E.L. and Thelma Gaylord Foundation

7:00 p.m. Western Heritage Awards MAJOR SUPPORT The Oklahoman Media Company MASTERS OF CEREMONIES The True Foundation and , one of Hollywood’s most enduring couples, are well COMMUNITY PARTNERS known for their roles in Westerns. These California natives met in 1978 while filming The Legacy in London and married in 1984. Elliott has played roles in films including Tombstone, The Big Lebowski, Road House, We Were Soldiers, and most recently, The Hero WESTERN HERITAGE AWARDS COMMITTEE MEMBERS 1700 Northeast 63rd Street (Ross also had a role in The Hero). He starred in television movies based Oklahoma City, OK 73111 on books written by Louis L’Amour, including , The Quick Wyatt McCrea, Committee Chairman (405) 478-2250 and the Dead, The Shadow Riders, and Elliott and Ross starred in and adapted Conagher for the screen. Elliott is currently starring in a Netflix Robert L. Allee Robert S. Hughes II Mark Linehan nationalcowboymuseum.org original series, The Ranch. Ross is best known for her leading roles in Clayton Bennett Mike Ingram Frank Love #westernheritageawards The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as well as starring Dr. Billy Bergin A.J. Jacques James K. Norfleet with John Wayne in The Hellfighters. Ross also guest starred in almost all Linda L. Bouchier Dr. John Jameson Gary Pierson of the TV Westerns of the late ‘60s and ‘70s. The couple was inducted Cover and background image: Brent Cummings Gary Kinslow Anita La Cava Swift Clyde Aspevig, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, Oil on canvas. 1997.010. into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National & 1997 Prix de West® winner. Western Heritage Museum, Elliott in 2007 and Ross in 2014. Linda Mitchell Davis Lincoln Lageson Rick O. Terry

WHA 2018 Invitation.indd 1 2/26/2018 4:32:21 PM stablished in 1961, the Western Heritage Awards honors Please join us for the HALL OF GREAT WESTERN PERFORMERS HALL OF GREAT WESTERNERS E works in literature, music, film, and television that celebrate the American West’s rich heritage. The evening also includes the Barry Corbin, Actor induction of individuals into the National Cowboy & Western WESTERN HERITAGE A respected screen presence for more than Jim Odle, Livestock Auctioneer Heritage Museum’s Hall of Great Westerners and Hall of Great three decades, Emmy-nominated actor Barry In 1986, Jim Odle of Brush, Colorado, Western Performers, and concludes with the presentation of the COCKTAIL RECEPTION Corbin, a Texas native, has dazzled audiences co-founded Superior Livestock, a first-of- Chester A. Reynolds Memorial Award, named in honor of the and critics alike with richly textured roles in its-kind satellite video cattle auction. By Museum’s founder. Each award recipient receives the Wrangler, Celebrating the Western Heritage Awards films such as Urban Cowboy and No Country implementing emerging technologies such as a bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback. Honorees and Inductees for Old Men and TV projects including the internet, Superior Livestock has grown to Northern Exposure, Lonesome Dove, and become the nation’s largest livestock auction. Modern Family. A champion cutting horse Odle, RFD-TV Board of Directors Chairman FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2018 competitor, Corbin is also the spokesman for and winner of various livestock auctioneer WESTERN VISIONARY AWARD the National Alopecia Areata Foundation and awards, was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Not meant to be an annual award, the inaugural Western Visionary 5:30 P.M. celebrity host of Round Up for Autism. Hall of Fame and the Colorado Agriculture Award recognizes an individual who has made a significant Hall of Fame. contribution and national impact in preserving and protecting National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Lynn Anderson, Western Heritage and its ideals. Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar Country Music Singer Walter Lennox Vail, Cattleman Philip Anschutz Western or business casual (1947-2015) (1852-1906) One of the nation’s most successful investors, Grammy Award winning artist Lynn Walter Lennox Vail, one of the most Philip Anschutz is the founder of The Anschutz Anderson spent six decades blurring the prominent cattlemen in Arizona and Corporation, among the largest privately held line between country and pop music with California during the late 19th and early companies in the United States. Headquartered her unique “countrypolitan” sound. Known 20th centuries, headed the Empire Land in Denver, Colorado, since 1960, The Anschutz for crossover hits like Cry, Top of the World, and Cattle Company for 30 years. Vail was Corporation, along with its affiliated companies, and, (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden instrumental in transitioning the nascent – the biggest-selling recording by a female cattle industry from local-only commerce is engaged in transportation, natural and The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum renewable resources, telecommunications, country artist for 27 years – Anderson was into large interstate operations for breeding, lodging, media, real estate, sports, and Board of Directors invite you to attend the 58th annual also an avid equestrian, winning 16 national feeding, and marketing. Appointed to the 10th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Vail entertainment. In 2017, Forbes Magazine and eight world cutting and showing also oversaw the Empire Land and Cattle named Anschutz “one of the 100 greatest living championships before her death in 2015. Company’s expansion into mining, oil, real business minds.” WESTERN HERITAGE AWARDS estate, and horse racing. SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2018 CHESTER A. REYNOLDS AWARD Winners will also be honored in the following categories: Randy Cate, Farrier View all winners online by scanning this QR code or visit MUSIC 5:00 P.M. Randy Cate worked on numerous Oklahoma nationalcowboymuseum.org/whawinners18 Original Western Composition • Traditional Western Album ranches before returning home to Bruner, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Missouri, to care for his aging parents and LITERARY Cocktail hour, dinner, and Awards ceremony begin his career as a farrier. Soon, word of Western Novel • Nonfiction Book • Photography or Art Book Cate’s skill – especially in treating foundered Juvenile Book • Magazine or Journal Article • Poetry Book Black tie optional horses – quickly spread. Known to donate his services, Cate is a Brotherhood of Working TELEVISION AND FILM Farriers member and was recognized by the Theatrical Motion Picture • Fictional Drama • Docudrama Missouri Legislature in 2002 for engineering Documentary • Western Lifestyle Program • Television Feature Film a hydraulic table to treat horses.

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