The Pulitzer Prize–winning American classic of the American West follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. A love story, an adventure and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove …
Comic books emerged in the 1930s. Through a natural evolution, cartoons developed into comic books, first through publications containing compilations of cartoon re-prints, then as books which featured unique content. Superheroes entered the world of comic books soon after, with many of the characters having stood the test of time to become vital parts of pop culture. Join Dexter Nelson …
Did you know the Pony Express began in Oklahoma? Attend April’s Curator Conversation to learn, discuss and understand the origins of the Pony Express with Ronnie Davis, Award Winning Pony Express Rider and Suzette Chang, Chief Education Officer at the National Cowboy Museum. $5; free for Museum members. Registration requested.
The author of myriad best-selling mysteries set in the American Southwest, Tony Hillerman presents nine extraordinary, true tales of daily life in New Mexico, including the comical title story about a bank holdup in Sante Fe that never was. Read the West Book Club meets monthly. Select books available for purchase in The Museum Store …
Dutch ovens were used on cattle drives to feed the cowboys and are still used today by chuck wagon cooks. However, these cast iron pots have a much deeper history. Join Luann Sewell Waters, state co-coordinator of the Oklahoma Leopold Education Project, conservation and history educator and Dutch oven cooking instructor as she shares the …
Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Big Sky is the first of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s epic adventure novels set in the American West. Here he introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins and Dick Summers: traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides and explorers. The story …
Join Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art Michael Grauer and Amena Butler, Studio School Assistant, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, as they discuss James Earle Fraser’s Abraham Lincoln sculpture on exhibit at the National Cowboy Museum. Grauer and Butler will discuss Lincoln from an art history perspective and the impact public art can have on …
All the Pretty Horses is the first volume in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. This National Book Awards winner for fiction tells the tale of John Grady Cole, who at 16 finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With …
Panoramic photographs offer a wealth of information about the landscapes of the West and the wide variety of people that inhabited them. Go deeper with W I D E W E S T and learn some of the stories behind the panoramic photographs on exhibit. Archivist Samantha Schafer will share the stories behind the people …
Screen legends John Wayne and William Holden team up with eminent Western director John Ford for this Civil War adventure packed with laughter, romance and thrills. The Horse Soldiers tells the rousing tale of a troop of Union soldiers who force their way deep into Southern territory to destroy a rebel stronghold at Newton Station. …
