Vol. 46, No. 9 Published monthly by the Oklahoma Historical Society, serving since 1893 September 2015

Western Heritage Weekend and Ice Cream Social at Drummond Home

Tom Mix Festival in Dewey The Drummond Home in Hominy will host its annual Ice Cream Social on Saturday, September 12, from 1 to 4 p.m. The Old West returns to Dewey for the eleventh annual West- This event will feature a program by the Royal Edinburgh Mili- ern Heritage Weekend on Saturday, September 26, and Sun- tary Tattoo who will be playing bagpipes and paying tribute to day, September 27. Saturday’s action-packed Tom Mix Festival Drummond family members. The Drummond Family Heirlooms opens with Rooster Cogburn, also known as Clarance Benes, exhibit will be on display and Open House tours of the home firing the starting gun for Family Healthcare Clinic’s annual will be offered. Plenty of ice cream and refreshments will be Miles For Mammograms Boot Scoot 5K Charity Race and 2K available for all guests. Cost for the event will be the regular Fun Walk. admission price of $3 for adults, $2.50 for seniors, and $1 for This family-friendly festival continues with free events in- children ages six to eighteen. cluding book signings, gunfights, costume contests, children’s Arriving in the United States from his games, and a stick horse rodeo. Guests can enjoy the Great native Scotland in 1884, twenty-year-old American Medicine Show featuring Professor Farquar and Frederick Drummond and his family built Polecat Annie. The highlight of the day is always the Longhorn one of the most successful trading and Cattle Drive and Wild West Parade down Main Street, which ranching operations in Oklahoma. The will begin at 3 p.m. The Tom Mix Museum and the Dewey Fred Drummond Home is located at 305 Hotel will be open to visitors for tours. There is no charge for North Price Avenue in Hominy. For more admission, but donations are appreciated. The day will be filled information please call 918-885-2374. with fun, historic reenactors, activities, food vendors, and live music. The live musical entertainment will be provided by the Cripple Creek Duo. They also will perform for the street dance that begins at 5 p.m. On Sunday, September 27, the venue moves to Prairie Song, Indian Territory, five miles outside of Dewey for the Wild West Show. Prairie Song is a recreated 1800s Old West town that features a saloon, post office, general store, jail, school house, chapel, doctor’s office, bank, and other buildings. Gates open at 9 a.m. with Pastor Justin McKee leading the Cowboy Church service at 10 a.m. The Great American Medicine Show will per- form again Sunday at 11 a.m. Tours of Prairie Song buildings will be available from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. A bank robbery and gunfight will take place at high noon, with gunfights at the sa- loon after the show. Food and merchandise vendors will be on site throughout the day. New project to publicize all The Wild West show starts at 1:30 p.m. with Justin McKee as announcer. McKee is well known as the announcer for preservation events in Oklahoma RFD TV’s The American Rodeo. This year’s performers include Max Reynolds, Buffalo Bill reenactor and trick rider/roper; Preservation Oklahoma, Inc., announces the new Oklahoma the Doenges Family of Autos longhorns; Haley Ganzel, trick Preservation Calendar of Events. A joint project of Preservation rider; the Sky High Angels Oklahoma, Inc., and the OHS’s State Historic Preservation Of- performance drill team; and fice, this new calendar lists workshops, conferences, tours, ex- the One Arm Bandit and hibits, festivals, promotional events, and other activities across Company. The ranch rodeo the state. The calendar provides a convenient way to find out events will include bull what preservation events are scheduled in Oklahoma, and a riding, bronc riding, and wild great way to promote those events in your area. To be includ- cow milking and mugging. ed on the calendar, an event must relate to the broad historic Advance tickets are available preservation field. Topics may include, but are not limited to, at reduced prices, and tickets documentation and evaluation of archaeological and historic also can be purchased at the resources, restoration or rehabilitation of historic buildings, gate. protection of archaeological sites, community revitalization, For more information please economic impacts of historic preservation, and local history. contact the Tom Mix Museum View it at www.preservationok.org/calendar-of-events.html. at 918-534-1555, tommix@ Check back regularly or sign up for weekly calendar updates cableone.net, or find “Western sent directly to your email. We also invite our preservation Heritage Weekend in Dewey, partners to promote their events on the calendar and link to it OK” on Facebook. The Tom from their own websites. To submit your event for the calendar, Mix Museum is located at 721 complete the Event Submission Form from the web address North Delaware in Dewey. above and email it to David Pettyjohn, executive director of Preservation Oklahoma, Inc., at [email protected]. of settlement with people coming from New Members, July 2015 different places at different times for different reasons. Given that diversity, *Indicates renewed memberships at a the one thread that binds our story into higher level a tapestry is our status as the State of Oklahoma. The State Capitol is the sym- Director’s Circle bol of our unity as a community. Hall Capital, Oklahoma City Jeff and Mary McClean, Simpsonville, KY Director’s I have worked in and around the State column Capitol for thirty-six years and I still have Associate a sense of awe when I am there. It is not *Ford and Vanessa Drummond, Bartlesville the architecture, although it is the great- *Carl and Susan Edwards, Oklahoma City Elliott + Associates Architects, Oklahoma City est interior space in the state. It is not the Mason and Barbara Jett, Oklahoma City art, although that is a true reflection of *Robert Koktavy, Oklahoma City *Joseph and Carol McGraw, Tulsa our shared story. To me, the awe comes *Walter and Melanie Roth, Northrop, CO from the history that has unfolded within *David and Judith Thompson, Oklahoma City those walls and the men and women who have been willing to serve our people. Friend Bill Anderson, Stillwater By Dr. Bob L. Blackburn Some of those stories are dramatic, *Jerry Blankenship, Enid Executive Director such as the day Governor Jack Walton *Glenda Brady, Stonewall placed a machine gun nest in front of the Herbert and Shirley Davis, Edmond *Kent Frates, Oklahoma City I like symbols that bind our community House chamber to prevent an impeach- *Don and Saramay Gibson, Oklahoma City together. One symbol that has become a ment vote. Other stories are tame, with Derek and Tammy Gill, Oklahoma City the wheels of deliberation and debate *Frank Gravitt, Wakefield, MA daily part of my life is the State Capitol. Herman Jameson, Calumet In 1998 I had a chance to link that proving that our representative form of *Harry and Mary Johnson, Oklahoma City symbol, what I call “Artifact Number One,” government does work. Glynn and Sandy McCauley, Cushing Gerard Medina, Norman to the building that would house other Today, the Capitol is getting the respect Randy Floyd Architects, Oklahoma City artifacts connected to Oklahoma’s history it deserves through a long-needed over- Tom and Sue Schley, Moore as part of the team asked to prepare a haul. We, the people, are investing in this Carl and Beth Shortt, Oklahoma City Greg and Ann Stidham, Checotah plan for a new Oklahoma History Center. symbol. The people assembled to plan the James Thomas, Tulsa In building the History Center, we work are asking the right questions. The looked at a variety of issues including consultants selected to do the work have Family location and orientation. The unanimous a proven track record of success with his- *Tucker Attebery, Bartlesville *Kevin and Geraldine Avery, Oklahoma City choice of the group was the northeast toric buildings. Rudy Bowman and James Bowman, Newcastle corner of Twenty-Third and Lincoln, As the rehabilitation continues over the J. D. and Jane Boyer, Pond Creek next few years, we should celebrate the Charles and Yolanda Boyles, Edmond which suggested a natural orientation. *Gerald and Judy Burns, Oklahoma City We pushed the building as close to the importance of the Capitol and support *Diane Cargill, Louisville, CO intersection as possible and aligned the those who have allocated the resources James and Jennifer Crotty, Muskogee *Mike Gately, Tulsa main entrance and great hall to give each to bring it back to its original glory with *Ryan Geddes, Woodward visitor a view of the State Capitol. modern efficiencies. *Joyce Gilbert, Barnsdall For me, the Capitol is a touchstone Yes, the State Capitol is artifact number Mr. and Mrs. Les Gilliam, Ponca City Phil and Cathie Harris, Oklahoma City where our story begins. one. It is a place, a structure, and a story Ginna Hawthorne, Moore We do not have an Alamo. We do not that all Oklahomans share. *Randal and Kimberly Ice, Oklahoma City Mr. and Mrs. Jake Jones, Oklahoma City have a founding father. We do not have a Polly Kelly, Tulsa point in time that we call the beginning. Instead, Oklahoma is a patchwork quilt cont’d. on p. 7

Development News Oklahoma Historical Society Membership Office: Alma Moore By Larry O’Dell 405-522-5242 [email protected]

Mistletoe Leaves (USPS 018-315) is published monthly by the Oklahoma The Oklahoma Historical Society’s Black Historical Society, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73105- Heritage Committee is undertaking a worth- 7917. Periodicals postage paid at Oklahoma City, OK. (ISSN 1932-0108) POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Mistletoe Leaves, 800 Nazih while project. To help preserve the research Zuhdi Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73105-7917. and stories from the Oklahoma History Cen- By authorization of the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Board of ter’s original Realizing the Dream African Directors, 6,000 copies are prepared at a cost of $1,276 each month. The publication is financed in part with federal funds from the National Park American exhibit, the committee is resur- Service, United States Department of the Interior. Contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies recting those panels to create educational Eugene Jones presents a check to OHS of the Oklahoma Historical Society or the United States Department of the Interior. Mention of trade names does not constitute endorsement or trunks for schools and libraries. The first Deputy Director Dr. Tim Zwink. recommendation by either organization. Left to right: Leonard Benton, Larry O’Dell, Mistletoe Leaves is published for the members and friends of the six panels will be funded from the generous Oklahoma Historical Society in partial fulfillment of the Society’s donations of committee members Leonard Tim Zwink, Joyce Jackson, Eugene Jones, purpose to “perserve and perpetuate the history of Oklahoma and its and Bruce Fisher. people, to stimulate popular interest in historical study and research, Benton, Eugene Jones, Milton Combs, and and to promote and disseminate historical knowledge.” The public and OHS members are encouraged to submit heritage- Joyce Jackson. The pop-up graphics will cover significant Oklahomans from the African related items for publication. Students and teachers are invited to share studies and programs and to duplicate contents as desired. Editors are American community and the civil rights movement. welcome to reprint materials with credit. All Oklahoma Historical Society facilities are for the education The OHS would like to add more topics and panels to share with the state. As always and enjoyment of all. State and federal regulations prohibit unlawful discrimination in state and federally assisted programs on the basis of OHS exhibits and programs are funded through donations. If you are interested in helping race, color, national origin, and/or handicap. Anyone denied benefits should contact the grievance manager of preserve the hard work and research done to create the Realizing the Dream exhibit, you the Oklahoma Historical Society, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, Oklahoma can contact me. My email is [email protected], and my phone number is 405-522-6676. City, OK 73105-7917, telephone 405-522-8989, and/or the director, Office of Equal Opportunity, United States Department of the Interior, Visit www.okhistory.org to see all the exciting programs, events, exhibits, and projects that Washington, D.C. 20240. are happening within the organization.

2 horsemanship, mounted saber, wheeled Chandler. For more information contact Events horse, and many more. The US Cavalry the Chandler Area Chamber of Commerce Association now resides in the original at 405-258-0673 or the Lincoln County Celebrate American Indian heritage at 1876 Officer’s Quarters at Fort Reno. Historical Society at 405-258-2425. the Choctaw Nation Labor Day Festival in This building also serves as a museum Tuskahoma from Thursday, September featuring military history of horse Quilt enthusiasts are encouraged to at- 3, through Monday, September 7. The mounted cavalry through the mech- tend the MOKA Quilt Study Group on annual festival includes activities for anized vehicle transition. Fort Reno is Friday, October 16, and Saturday, Oc- all ages, sports tournaments, quilting located at 7107 West Cheyenne Street in tober 17, in Oklahoma City. Join other demonstrations, live music, bison tours, El Reno. Please call Wendy Ogden at 405- members of the Quilt Study Group from a powwow, Choctaw cultural exhibitions, 422-6330 for more information. Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkan- stickball games, arts and crafts, and sas as the group explores “Commemora- carnival rides. This year’s theme is Join the Oklahoma Museums Association tive Quilts: The Making of Meaning.” This “Choctaw Youth: Connecting the Culture.” (OMA) for the 2015 Annual Conference includes a rare opportunity to see some of Learn about Choctaw tribal customs in Woodward. Attend sessions from Oklahoma’s quilt treasures with an exclu- with traditional village events, dancing, Wednesday, September 23, through Fri- sive, behind-the-scenes viewing of quilts and storytelling. Children’s activities will day, September 25, at the Woodward at the Oklahoma History Center. There include a corn game and pottery making. Conference Center. The OMA Conference also will be a special quilt presentation by As part of the Labor Day Festival the is a great time to network with colleagues Cindy Rennels of Clinton, Oklahoma, en- Choctaw Nation also presents a series of and exhibitors, gain useful information, titled “Cloth Treasures of the Past.” The free concerts featuring national stars and and celebrate museums. To register visit program on Friday evening will be held well-known performers. These concerts www.okmuseums.org/conference prior in a meeting room at the Fairfield Inn are open to the public and visitors are to the September 3 registration dead- and Suites, located at 301 Meline Drive encouraged to bring lawn chairs. The line. The Woodward Conference Center in Edmond. The program, tour, lunch, festivities begin on Thursday at 7 p.m. is located at 3401 Centennial Drive in and meeting on Saturday will be held at and end on Monday at noon. Visit www. Woodward. For more information please the Oklahoma History Center, located at choctawnation.com/news-room/events email [email protected] or call 405- 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive in Oklahoma City. for the full schedule. The Choctaw Nation 424-7757. Cost for the MOKA Quilt Study Group Capitol Grounds are located on Highway event is $30 per person, with lunch in- 271 South in Tuskahoma. For more Visit Fairview for the thirtieth annual cluded. The deadline to register is Mon- information please call 580-924-8280. Old Time Threshing Bee and Two day, October 12. For more information Cylinder Show on Friday, September please contact Martha Spark at 405-509- The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 25, and Saturday, September 26. This 6880 or [email protected]. (WMWR) in Indiahoma will host a public celebration of pioneer farm life will presentation on Sunday, September 20, include activities and entertainment from Step back in time as Ponca City presents at 2 p.m. in the visitor center auditorium. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. its first IOOF Cemetery tour on Saturday, Celebrate the legacy of projects in the There will be demonstrations of grain October 17, from 2 to 6 p.m. The Set in WMWR by the Civilian Conservation milling, rope making, threshing of wheat Stone Cemetery Tour offers attendees two Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress bundles, broom making, and saw milling. options. For $10 per person, local reen- Administration (WPA). The presentation Attendees also can enjoy a gas and steam actors will bring Ponca City characters by Cynthia Savage, architectural and engine show, antique farm equipment to life on the Personalities Tour. For $5 cultural historian, will highlight the work show, food concessions, arts and crafts, per person, a Marker/Symbolism Tour is of the men of the CCC and the WPA in musical entertainment, vintage car show, available. Tickets may be purchased at the wildlife refuge. The visitor center special children’s events, and tours of the Ponca Playhouse, 580-765-5360, or also is showcasing an exhibit of vintage the Major County Historical Society’s the Pioneer Woman Museum, 580-765- CCC and WPA photographs through museum facilities. The Two Cylinder 6108. The IOOF Cemetery is located at Sunday, September 27. This program Show will feature John Deere Model D 1206 South Waverly Street in Ponca City. is cosponsored by the Friends of the tractors from 1923 to 1953. This unique Wichitas and the WMWR, with funding show includes tractor games, a tractor provided in part by a grant from the Do you want your organization’s meeting, pull, plowing, baling, threshing, binding, event, or exhibit included in the “Around Oklahoma Humanities Council and the and corn shelling. The event is held on National Endowment for the Humanities. Oklahoma” section of the Mistletoe the Major County Historical Society Leaves? The “Around Oklahoma” section The WMWR visitor center is located at 32 grounds, located one and one-half miles Refuge Headquarters Road in Indiahoma. features Oklahoma history and heritage- east of Fairview on Highway 58. Please related activities or programs sponsored Please call 405-701-3723 or 580-429- call 580-227-2265 for more information. 2197 for more information. by entities other than the Oklahoma Historical Society. To submit news items, The Chandler Pioneer Festival will Experience the 2015 Bivouac and Na- please contact Evelyn Brown, assistant be held on Saturday, September 26, editor, by email at eebrown@okhistory. tional Cavalry Competition in El Reno from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Lincoln from Wednesday, September 23, through org or by mail at 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, County Courthouse lawn. There will be Oklahoma City, OK 73105, during the Saturday, September 26. The US Cavalry demonstrations, entertainment, vendors, Association recently moved from Fort first week of the month before you wish a historic walking and carriage tours, a news item to appear. For example, if you Riley, Kansas, to Fort Reno in El Reno, marionette play, and other family friend- Oklahoma. Fort Reno will host the wish an item to appear in the October ly activities. The Lincoln County Court- issue, you must submit by the first week competition, which will include mounted house is located at 811 Manvel Avenue in pistol, military field jumping, combat of September.

3 New Oklahoma National Register listings

The State Historic Preservation Office plan, compositional patterns, folding par- The Czech Hall of Oklahoma City, Lodge is pleased to announce four new Nation- titions, and large clerestory windows. The Laska, is located on Southwest Sixth al Register of Historic Places listings in C. A. Comer House is an excellent exam- Street in downtown. The lodge is signifi- Oklahoma. The National Register of His- ple of Goff’s Organic design style. cant for its role with the Czechoslovakian toric Places is our nation’s official list of social/humanitarian fraternal organiza- properties significant in our past. tion, established to enable newly arrived Tulsa adds a new National Register immigrants to encourage and assist fel- location to their ever-increasing inven- low immigrants while preserving their tory. Elizabeth Manor is located at 1820 distinctive ways in their adopted country. South Boulder Avenue West and was It is also significant as early vernacular designed by architect Arthur Atkinson. architecture in Oklahoma City. The building is significant in the area of community planning and development for its association with the unprecedent- ed boom in apartment construction in C. A. Comer House Tulsa in the 1920s. The trend of 1920s apartment house construction left a The Hays-Kennedy/Rivoli Theater in permanent mark on Tulsa’s community downtown Blackwell is significant for its development. association with recreation and enter- tainment, as it served as a theater from 1929 to its closing in 1963. It is also sig- nificant as an excellent example of an Art Deco building. The theater was designed by Tulsa architect H. H. Mahler. Czech Hall of Oklahoma City, Lodge Laska

Listing on the National Register is an honorific designation that provides recognition, limited protection, and, in some cases, financial incentives for Elizabeth Manor these important properties. The SHPO identifies, evaluates, and nominates The C. A. Comer House joins a growing properties for this special designation. list of properties significant for their as- For more information about the National sociation with architect Bruce Goff list- Register of Historic Places, please con- ed on the National Register. Located in tact Lynda Ozan at [email protected] the community of Dewey in Washington or 405-522-4478. County, the C. A. Comer House was built in 1957 in the Organic style. The house is characteristic of Goff’s designs in its open Hays-Kennedy/Rivoli Theater

Living History Lantern Museum Store News Tours at CSRHC by Jera Winters On Friday, September 18, the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center (CSRHC) that formed to pool resources and benefit The Oklahoma His- in Enid will host Living History Lantern all of its members. The company has a tory Center Museum Tours. After dark, visitors to the CSRHC’s long and interesting history—founded in Store is proud to be Humphrey Heritage Village will travel 1928, surviving the Great Depression, your source for great back to the days after the Land Run of defeating takeover attempts, and facing books about the fas- 1893. Lantern-led tours through the his- an ever-changing business world. cinating history of toric buildings and campsites will explore This fascinating look at one of Oklaho- Oklahoma. We are daily life, its hardships, and its rewards. ma’s oldest companies is regularly priced happy to be carry- During the tour, guests will encounter at $19.95, and is available to members ing and distributing schoolmarms, Land Office agents, fine for $16.95. We also are offering this book Paul Lambert’s latest Victorian ladies, homestead families, and on a wholesale basis to resellers. Please book about Oklaho- many others. Following the lantern tour, call at the telephone number below for ma history, Drill Bits attendees also may enjoy historical enter- pricing and details. and Plowshares: The History of Farmers tainment and refreshments. The cost for Call us or stop by for this and many Royalty Company. tickets is $10 per person, and they must other unique, historical titles. Books also Paul Lambert, long-time friend of the be purchased in advance. Tours begin at can be ordered on the Museum Store Oklahoma Historical Society and noted 7 p.m. To order tickets please call 580- website at www.okhistory.org. Members historian, recently has released Drill Bits 237-1907. The Cherokee Strip Regional always receive a 15 percent discount on and Plowshares: The History of Farmers Heritage Center is located at 507 South Museum Store purchases. Please contact Royalty Company. We are pleased to offer Fourth Street in Enid. this detailed history of the Farmers Royal- us at 405-522-5214 with questions about ty Company, a unique energy organization these or any of our other great items.

4 Vintage Tea and Back to School Bash OKPOP News

Fashion Show The Oklahoma History Center Edu- By Jeff Moore cation Department and other metro-area The Friends of the Frank Phillips Home museum educators will gather at the Since the end of the legislative session will host a Vintage Tea and Fashion Show National Cowboy and Western Heritage we have received a multitude of inquiries on Saturday, September 26. The event Museum on Tuesday, September 1, from asking about what is next for the Okla- will be held at the Tri County Technology 6 to 9 p.m. for the Back to School Bash. homa Museum of Popular Culture. The Center in Bartlesville. Fashions from Celebrate the beginning of a new school answer is that we have been very busy the late 1800s through 1930 will be year and learn about museum programs as we move forward on several different modeled by a special group of historical offered to teachers. Museum staff will fronts. Regarding the building itself we interpreters. Narration will be provided be available to answer questions about are working with the state construction by historian and vintage fashion expert field trips, education trunks, teacher and properties office to begin the process Martha Ray. Proceeds will benefit the resources, and special events. Door prizes of selecting the team that will help us Frank Phillips Home, located at 1107 will be awarded to teachers throughout make the OKPOP museum a reality. This Southeast Cherokee in Bartlesville. The the night, with teacher identification. includes architects, construction special- Tri County Technology Center is located Registration is not required. For more ists, exhibit designers, and other consul- at 6101 Southeast Nowata Road in information please call 405-522-3602 tants. Bartlesville. For more information please or email [email protected]. The We are continuing the efforts to build call 918-336-2491, ext. 103. National Cowboy and Western Heritage collections, and this includes developing Museum is located at 1700 Northeast exhibits for different groups and events. Sixty-Third Street in Oklahoma City. We recently assisted Circle Cinema with their screening of a 1974 documentary on National History Day Leon Russell. And the exhibits on Patti research opportunity Page’s life and career continued through July at the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum The Oklahoma History Center is pleased Rural Heritage Festival in Clinton, the Pioneer Woman Museum to announce that it will host a research at CSM in Perry in Ponca City, the Cherokee Strip Region- day for students interested in participat- al Heritage Center in Enid, and the Clare- more History Center. ing in the National History Day (NHD) The Cherokee Strip Museum (CSM) in We are also assisting the Oklahoma competition. This event will be held on Perry will host its annual Rural Heritage History Center with the Crossroads of Thursday, October 15, from 10 a.m. to Festival on Saturday, October 10, from Commerce exhibit that opens in Novem- 2 p.m. at the Chambers Library on the 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be a variety of ber. Several areas will focus on pop University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) reenactors depicting early life in Oklaho- culture topics dealing with Oklahoma campus and is free for teachers and stu- ma, including fur trappers, settlers, and businesses, specifically the music, tele- dents. Attendees will have full access to cowboys. Other demonstrations include vision, movie theater, and travel and the library resources, librarians, and the quilting, lye soap making, basket weaving, recreation industries. Oklahoma National History Day (OKNHD) and lace making. Guests can eat cobbler There will be two major interactive ex- staff. Registration is required and must and stew cooked in old-fashioned Dutch hibits included. One will cover Bob Wills’s be submitted to OKNHD Coordinator ovens. There will be cake walks, apple business endeavors in the state, which Sarah Dumas at [email protected]. bobbing, sack races, and more. Festival began in earnest when he first went on National History Day is a nonprofit attendees are encouraged to bring their KVOO radio on February 9, 1934. There education organization in College Park, best carved pumpkin, as there will be a will be a recreation of the Cain’s Ballroom Maryland. Established in 1974, NHD pumpkin carving contest. This is a free, stage and artifacts from the Bob Wills Es- offers year-long academic programs that fun event that the entire family can enjoy. tate, Inc., Collection. Another major area engage more than half a million middle Museum admission also will be free dur- will explore Leon Russell’s career in the and high school students around the ing the festival. music recording industry from the the world annually in conducting original The Cherokee Strip Museum also in- late 1950s through the early 1980s. Visi- research on historical topics of interest. vites guests to view its newest temporary tors will be able to mix their own songs These research-based projects are exhibit about the 101 Ranch. This exhibit and explore the incredible world of musi- entered into contests at the local and will be on display from Tuesday, Septem- cians who have worked with “The Master affiliate levels, where the top student ber 1, through the end of November. Fes- of Space and Time.” projects have the opportunity to advance tival goers can cool off and enjoy the wide We released our first record on 46 Star to the national contest at the University variety of 101 Ranch artifacts and photo- Records in May, a selection of unreleased of Maryland at College Park. graphs in the exhibit. The Cherokee Strip songs by Bob Wills and his Texas Play- Oklahoma National History Day is part Museum and Rose Hill School are located boys. The album, which was digitally re- of NHD and is a highly regarded academic at 2617 West Fir Street in Perry. Please stored by Steve Ripley, has been very well program for sixth through twelfth grade call 580-336-2405 for more information. students. It gives teachers the opportu- received and we are planning a release nity to incorporate an academic program party in Tulsa. We also hope to have cop- that directly addresses Common Core ies on CD very soon. and Oklahoma Assessment Standards We are also very excited to be working for the social studies with student-based with Milestone Films to release the 1921 projects. The next state OKNHD contest silent filmThe Daughter of Dawn on DVD is scheduled for May 4–5, 2016, at the and Blu-ray this fall. Milestone has pro- Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma duced an HD version of the film and we City. Junior Division will compete on will have several theatrical screenings May 4, and Senior Division will compete across the state, including our Tulsa pre- on May 5. More information may be ob- miere at the Circle Cinema in November. tained at http://ok.nhd.org. Stay tuned for details.

5 Women of the Wild West OHEHS announces 2015 Autumnal Equinox Walks Shows lecture at PWM Hall of Fame inductees at Spiro Mounds

The Pioneer Woman Museum (PWM) in The Oklahoma Higher Education Heri- Visit Spiro Mounds Archaeological Ponca City will host a free, public lecture tage Society (OHEHS) was established in Center on Tuesday, September 22, and on Saturday, September 12, from 2 to 1991 as a nonprofit to support aware- Wednesday, September 23, for the Au- 4 p.m. Guest lecturers Tracey Hanshew ness of higher education’s vital role in tumnal Equinox Walks. As the end of and Alyce Vigil will discuss various topics Oklahoma history. The OHEHS recently summer nears and crops are ready for related to women of the Wild West shows. announced its 2015 class for induction harvest, it also is time for an important This discussion is held in conjunction into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall ceremony. For American Indians, the with the recently opened museum exhibit of Fame. These individuals will be hon- Busk or Green Corn Ceremony was a entitled Women of the Wild West Shows. ored at a formal induction ceremony and harvest and renewal ceremony that took Women were a vital part of the Wild banquet on Monday, October 12, at 6:30 place around the autumnal equinox in West shows story, but their roles largely p.m. at the National Cowboy and Western the Spiro area. have been glossed over or reduced to Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. During the guided Autumnal Equinox popular stereotype. These skilled women The 2015 honorees are Belinda P. Bis- Walks, attendees will learn about the toured the world as ambassadors of the coe, University of Oklahoma, Norman; Green Corn Ceremony. Each day there American spirit, influencing millions David and Molly Shi Boren, University will be three walks at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and with their courage, determination, and of Oklahoma, Norman; Anthony Wayne 7 p.m., led by archaeologists and Spiro independence. They also served as Confer, Oklahoma State University, Still- Mounds Archaeological Center Manager agents of change by challenging cultural water; Robert C. Dauffenbach, University Dennis Peterson. The walk will be ap- expectations of what women were capable of Oklahoma, Norman; C. Henry Gold, proximately two hours and require one of doing. This exhibit strives to tell the Southeastern Oklahoma State Univer- mile of easy walking. Peterson will share stories of the amazing women who helped sity, Durant; Lawrence K. (posthumous information about this unique prehistoric make Wild West history. award) and Maggie Hayes, Oklahoma American Indian mound site, the types of Tracey Hanshew is a PhD candidate in State Regents for Higher Education/ mounds, why they were created, and why history at Oklahoma State University. Her University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City; some of the mounds are lined up for the area of study focuses on women in the Thomas McKeon, Tulsa Community Col- sunsets of the solstices and equinoxes. American West. Hanshew’s talk, “Con- lege, Tulsa; Roscoe Rouse Jr., Oklahoma The small fee for the tour is $3 for tracts to Competition: Early Cowgirls in State University, Stillwater (posthumous adults and $2 for children, in addition to the Public Arena,” looks at the transition award); Ingrid Shafer, University of Sci- the daily admission fee. OHS members cowgirls made from Wild West shows to ence and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha do not pay the daily admission fee. No professional careers in rodeo and why (posthumous award); and Alan R. Velie, reservations are required except for large women’s careers in rodeo were limited University of Oklahoma, Norman. groups. The Spiro Mounds Archaeologi- primarily to Anglo-American cowgirls. The Oklahoma Higher Education Hall cal Center is located three miles east of Alyce Vigil is a graduate student at of Fame was established in 1994 to rec- Spiro on Highway 9/271 and four miles Oklahoma State University where she ognize and honor individuals, living and north on Lock and Dam Road. For more studies the American West. Vigil’s talk, deceased, for outstanding, meritorious information please call 918-962-2062 or “Cowgirls of Color,” explores the expe- service to higher education in Oklahoma. email [email protected]. riences of female American Indian and 2015 marks the twenty-second year to Mexican Wild West show performers. honor higher education educators and Despite the show’s intended message administrators as well as those who sup- of conquest, cowgirls of color used the port higher education with distinguished “Tour de Museums” Wild West shows for their own purpos- contributions. summer program es, which were often quite different from To be eligible for induction, an indi- those of Euro-American cowgirls. vidual must have been employed by one The T. B. Ferguson Home in Watonga is For more information please call 580- or more institutions of public or private proud to announce its summer program, 765-6108, email [email protected], or higher education in Oklahoma on a full- “Tour de Museums.” Purchase a pass- visit the museum’s Facebook page. The time basis for a minimum of ten years. port at any participating museum for $6 Pioneer Woman Museum is located at Individuals not so employed, but have and get it stamped at every participating 701 Monument Road in Ponca City. performed outstanding service to higher museum. When the passport is full, turn education in the state, or organizations it in at the last museum that you tour or institutions, are also eligible for con- and your passport will be entered into a sideration, such service to be above and drawing to be held on Saturday, Septem- beyond financial contributions. Each year ber 26, at 1 p.m. The winner will receive the Oklahoma Higher Education Heritage a two-night stay at Roman Nose Resort Society may elect to give a Special Award for adults and a gift certificate for paddle of Merit for distinguished contributions boat rides and putt-putt golf for children. to higher education to an individual, or- Participating museums include T. B. Fer- ganization, or institution deemed worthy guson Home, Watonga; Sod House Mu- of recognition. seum, Aline; Plains Indians and Pioneers Biographical sketches and photographs Museum, Woodward; Freedom Museum, of past Higher Education Hall of Fame Freedom; National Route 66 Museum, inductees are available on the OHEHS Elk City; Roger Miller Museum, Erick; website at www.ohehs.org. For more in- Major County Historical Society, Fair- 101 Ranch Wild West Show performers, formation about the Oklahoma Higher view; Twister Museum, Wakita; Chisholm left to right: Mabel Tompkins, Gertie Davis, and Miss Hutton, 1907 Education Hall of Fame or the OHEHS, Trail Museum, Kingfisher; and Simpson’s (19439.3.50.T, Mabel Tompkins please email [email protected] or Old Time Museum, Enid. Please call 580- Collection, OHS Research Division). call 405-522-0778. 623-5069 for more information.

6 New Members, cont’d. Patricia Hoig, Edmond SHPO seeks input for Robert Hoogerhyde, Ardmore Matthew Hudson, Park Hill FY 2016 program Family Juliana Jackson, Lawton Matt and Renee Kendall, Blanchard Jennifer Jim, Ada The State Historic Preservation Office Patricia Kusel, Fort Cobb Bryan Jump, Coalgate Loran and Barbara Looman, Wayne Donella Kennedy, Wagoner (SHPO) will hold a public meeting on *Linda Mason, Edmond Etta Kennedy, Edmond Friday, September 11, at 10:30 a.m. in Paul and Emile Maton, Edmond James Kercheval, Ada the classroom of the Oklahoma History Nora Medley, Nichols Hills Kelly Kolb, Clinton Mark and Nancy Meyers, Norman Patricia Leach, Henryetta Center, located at 800 Nazih Zuhdi Candie Moore-Radcliff, Choctaw Misti Lessley, Tulsa Drive in Oklahoma City. SHPO staff will Lynda Murphy and Madeline Fieselman, Choctaw Bev Loy, Oklahoma City Gerald and Mary Neff, Oklahoma City Karen Luke, Oklahoma City provide information about the statewide Don Neill, Newalla Brittany Miller, Ardmore preservation program and will receive Kent Phillips, Nichols Hills Latisha Moaning, Enid public input for development of the Fiscal William and Mary Portman, Oklahoma City Melvin Mungai, Edmond Doug and Kathleen Putthoff, Edmond Keith Myers, Stratford Year 2016 Historic Preservation Fund Don and Donna Richardson, Edmond Mung Kim Pau, Tulsa (HPF) application to the US Department Jerod and Emily Tate, Oklahoma City Rachel Perry, Gore of the Interior. The SHPO expects to Roy and Darlene Thornton, Midwest City Franklin Porter, Enid John Vance, Oklahoma City Laura Porting, Broken Arrow receive approximately $830,000 from *John Williams, Muskogee Rosemarie Pratt, Muskogee the HPF for its programs and operations. *John H. Winkler and John C. Winkler, Oklahoma David Quintana, Madill City Robert Quinton, Ardmore Of this award, 10 percent of the funding Kirsten and June Woodard, Kingfisher James Ramsey, Blanchard is reserved for pass-through grants to Nazette Zuhdi and James Cleaver, Oklahoma City Kathy Ray, Pauls Valley Certified Local Governments (CLGs). Rebecca Richards, Stringtown James Robson, Edmond Under the National Historic Preserva- Individual Angela Ables, Oklahoma City Robert Scott, Edmond tion Act, the SHPO administers the fed- Ariel Adams, Tulsa Alyssa Sharp, Talihina eral historic preservation program in Jo Ann Adams, Edmond Joey Sims, Sulphur Duchess Bartmess, Oklahoma City Parker Smelser, Billings Oklahoma. The SHPO conducts surveys Aaron Bevington, Lawton Deedra Smiley, Cement to identify archaeological and historic re- Louwanda Bond, Clinton Erenda Sorto, Weatherford sources; nominates eligible properties to Nicholas Bowling, Tulsa Claud Sumner, Okmulgee Jordon Boyd, Afton Ted Thompson, Norman the National Register of Historic Places Donna Bradley, Mannford David Vaughan, Butler (NRHP); comments on the effects of fed- Michelle Byars, Tishomingo Silvia Vazquez, Tonkawa Clifton Washington, Muskogee eral undertakings on archaeological and David Carnes, Ponca City David Clark, Holdenville Lyle Waugh, Sentinel historic resources; develops the statewide Sherilyn Despain, Hinton Wayne White, Lawton preservation plan; administers the CLG Peggy Dickson, Ardmore Tamara Wildman, Enid Diana Farmer, Duluth, GA Rebecca Williams, Owasso Program; provides comments to the Na- Julie Filer, Oklahoma City Mrs. George Williams, Tulsa tional Park Service about rehabilitation Jessie Fox, Ada Randy Wilson, Quinton projects proposed for federal tax credits; Jacob Garrison, Sulphur Tim Yang, Tulsa Kenneth Gayler, Wewoka and provides public outreach programs Charlotte Gibbens, Nichols Hills Organizational and technical assistance to preservation Gary Gillis, Sapulpa Marshall County of Oklahoma Genealogical and professionals, government agencies, and Lewis Green, Fort Sill Historical Society Incorporated, Madill Patrick Grimmett, Pauls Valley Murray State College Library, Tishomingo interested citizens. Bob Hammack, Oklahoma City Rogers County Historical Society, Claremore “Tomorrow’s Legacy: Oklahoma’s State- Sarah Hardaway, Enid USS Batfish Memorial Park, Muskogee wide Preservation Plan (January 2015– Irma Hernandez, Broken Arrow December 2019)” is available online at www.okhistory.org/shpo/stateplan.htm, Twenty-year members renew in July and sets forth the statewide preservation community’s goals and objectives. The Listed below, with the date they joined the OHS, are people and organizations SHPO’s priorities for addressing the State that, when they renewed their memberships in July, have been members twenty or Plan’s goals are a continuation of the ar- more years. Their long-term loyalty is most sincerely appreciated! chaeological and historic/architectural Harrison Townes, Tulsa, July 1, 1962 resources survey program, with special Miami Public Library, Miami, January 14, 1982 emphasis on resources associated with Murray State College Library, Tishomingo, February 1, 1982 underrepresented peoples and extension Mary Watson, Oklahoma City, August 1, 1984 Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa, December 1, 1984 of survey coverage to previously unstudied Oklahoma Christian University Library, Oklahoma City, September 1, 1985 areas; preparation of NRHP nominations; Leah Nellis, Norman, February 18, 1987 and continuation of public outreach and Steve and Donna Byas, Norman, July 22, 1987 Lonnie and Susan Smith, Fort Towson, May 31, 1988 technical assistance programs. The pub- Bill and Karen Anderson, Holdenville, July 6, 1988 lic’s ideas and priorities for the SHPO’s McCurtain County Historical Society, Idabel, July 14, 1988 Lonnie Fink, Oklahoma City, June 20, 1989 activities in each of these program areas Mark and Lou Curnutte, Vinita, July 30, 1990 in FY 2016 will help strengthen the pres- J. D. Smith, Tulsa, August 22, 1991 ervation of Oklahoma’s heritage. B. J. and Sue Branom, Midwest City, August 27, 1991 Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics, Oklahoma City, June 1, 1992 Written comments and suggestions Mary Finley, Oklahoma City, July 24, 1992 also are welcome from individuals who Bruce and Janelle Swearingen, Bixby, July 27, 1993 are unable to attend the meeting. Please Roberta Hollis, Edmond, February 15, 1994 Terry Duke, Sandusky, OH, July 14, 1994 complete the SHPO’s “Project Suggestion John and Audrey Rider, Enid, July 14, 1994 Form” and return it by 5 p.m. on Friday, Patrick Howard, Colorado Springs, CO, July 14, 1994 Theresa Reeping, Silver Spring, MD, August 5, 1994 September 11. Call the SHPO at 405- Charles Scott, Tulsa, August 16, 1994 521-6249 or email Melvena Heisch at Mark Whitman, Broken Arrow, August 24, 1994 [email protected] to request the Gerald West, Dauphin, PA, January 12, 1995 Teddy Hollis, Arcadia, April 13, 1995 form, or obtain it at www.okhistory.org/ Sylvia Duncan, Stillwater, July 5, 1995 shpo/spevents.htm. Joe Hickman, Broken Bow, April 26, 1995

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ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED Vol. 46, No. 9 September 2015 Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum receives recognition

True West magazine has named the Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum one of the Top Ten Cowboy and Agricultural Museums in the United States. The September 2015 edition of the magazine ranks the five hundred-acre historic site fifth in the nation in that category. True West devoted much of the issue to highlighting western museums that showcase new visions of the past, present, and future. Other Oklahoma institutions recognized in different categories are the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa. True West magazine captures the spirit of the American West with authenticity, personality, and humor by linking our history to our present. Whether you call it the Wild West, the Old West, or the Far West, America’s frontier history comes to life in True West, the world’s oldest, continuously published Western Americana magazine. The Pawnee Bill Ranch was once the home of Wild West showman Gordon W. Lillie. The ranch includes a historic home, a visitor’s center, log cabin, blacksmith shop, barn, observation tower, and herds of bison, longhorns, and horses. The ranch is open seven days a week April through October and is closed Mondays and Tuesdays September events at a glance November through March. Visitors can tour the 1 Back to School Bash, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City entire facility during normal hours of operation and specialized programming is available upon request 5 “Carl Mays: From Kingfisher to the Big Leagues” event, Chisholm Trail Museum, Kingfisher for groups who make reservations in advance. The 9 Brown Bag Lunch and Learn program, Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, Enid Pawnee Bill Ranch also proudly recreates Pawnee Bill’s Original Wild West Show in June every year. 11 Public Meeting for SHPO’s FY 2016 HPF Grant Application, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City For more information please call 918-762-2513 or 12 Cancer Kids Day at the Ferguson Home, T. B. Ferguson Home, Watonga go to www.pawneebillranch.com. The Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum is located at 1141 Pawnee Bill 12 Drummond Home’s annual Ice Cream Social, Drummond Home, Hominy Road, approximately one-half mile west of Pawnee 12 Quilting workshop with Martha Ray, Sod House Museum, Aline on US Highway 64.

12 Septemberfest, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City

12 Women of the Wild West Shows lecture, Pioneer Woman Museum, Ponca City

12 “Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma!” book discussion group, Pioneer Woman Museum, Ponca City

18 Living History Lantern Tours, Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, Enid

19 Perry’s annual Cherokee Strip Celebration and free admission day, Cherokee Strip Museum, Perry

19 Arts in Action Festival, Pioneer Heritage Townsite Center, Frederick

19 Dutch Oven Cooking class, Pioneer Woman Museum, Ponca City

19 Third Saturday Living History program, George M. Murrell Home, Park Hill Above: Gordon W. Lillie (2054, Mat Duhr 19 Tatting Lace Making workshop, Chisholm Trail Museum, Kingfisher Collection, OHS Research Division). 22-23 Autumnal Equinox Walks, Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center, Spiro Left: Mansion at 26 Vintage Tea and Fashion Show, Frank Phillips Home, Bartlesville Pawnee Bill Ranch.

26-27 Eleventh annual Western Heritage Weekend and Tom Mix Festival, Tom Mix Museum, Dewey