Museum Blog

August 6, 2020

Prix de West Works in Progress

Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting some Prix de West 2020 art and artists on our blog. There’s so much to share and we don’t want you to miss a single piece of this fantastic Western art so keep checking back. This week we’re going to share some art while it was […]

July 30, 2020

Prix de West Collector’s Bolo

July 9, 2020

#hashtagblog

We have some awesome people that work at the Museum. They’ve got a million stories to tell you. You’re gonna learn a lot.

July 7, 2020

Find Your West

History is more than a timeline. At its core, it is about people. Not just the famous and infamous, but the everyday and ordinary.

March 20, 2018

Fields of Fearlessness

Stories about Fields vary from source to source, but the most common theme is of her brazen, bold, and daring personality. There is no question she was a strong African American woman in a time when being a woman alone was stifling and offered few options.

September 19, 2017

Surviving the Dust Bowl

Rather than being untold stories, however, for many these are stories well known. Stories of individuals such as my grandfather, James Nidey, who today at age 96 still lives on the same section of land where, as a young man, he endured the 1930s in the epicenter of the Dust Bowl:

July 31, 2017

A Cowboy’s Funeral

Cowboys lived and invariably died here. Though the flagstone structures built up to protect their graves are beginning to crumble due to time, they are still standing nevertheless.

June 29, 2017

Seven Things You Didn’t Know About the Chisholm Trail

Ironically, Jesse Chisholm never knew that cowboys adopted his name for the most famous cattle trail in the West.

June 27, 2016

SUNDOG

When one considers that the appearance of sundogs actually presaged the Battle of the Washita, it becomes clear how an abstract work of art, when viewed through a certain contextual prism, can reveal a story as profound as that of the United States’ conflict with Plains Indian cultures of the 19th century.

November 10, 2015

Jackson Sundown: Busting Broncs, Breaking Barriers

He challenged the perceptions and definitions of identity. He demonstrated that people are multi-faceted and not one dimensional. He was not a Nez Perce or a cowboy. He was a Nez Perce and a cowboy.