Join us for a professional development opportunity for teachers at the National Cowboy Museum in collaboration with the College of Education and Professional Studies, University of Central Oklahoma. This educator workshop focuses on how “play” can be used effectively in classroom instruction. Participants will engage with content experts, Michael Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture …
The West was built by strong and resilient women who you can find examples of in the Museum’s galleries! Stop by the Museum’s Heritage Table to learn about Stagecoach Mary Fields – the first Black woman mail carrier in the United States. Discover the importance of the stagecoach in Mary’s story and create your own …
In honor of the Museum’s exhibits celebrating the history of toys and play in the West, we’re bringing back the nostalgia of Saturday morning cartoons and cereal. Kids can come in their best pjs, sample Western-themed cereals and make their own toys. Be sure to check out Playing Cowboy, You Have Died of Dysentery and …
Watch Oklahoma history come to life at the National Cowboy Museum with stage performances by Rodeo Opry. This interactive program teaches Oklahoma history, music and culture with an emphasis on lawmen and outlaws and the often-blurry lines between the two as detailed in the exhibition outLAWmen. Program begins at 10:30 a.m. and is approximately one …
In conjunction with the exhibition ARToons, join Kera Newby, Director of the Dickinson Research Center and Curator of Archives at the National Cowboy Museum, for an evening exploring the cartoony side of Western art. $5; free for Museum members.
Drop by and participate in family friendly activities. Create a different make-and-take craft each day. Free for members or with Museum admission. Available while supplies last. Use the mysterious scratch art paper to make colorful spring art!
John Wayne and Stewart Granger strike it rich in this rousing comedy adventure set during the Alaskan gold rush. When prospectors Sam McCord (Wayne) and George Pratt (Granger) hit the mother lode, Sam agrees to go to Seattle to bring George’s sweetheart back to Alaska. But since she’s married to someone else, Sam invites a …
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 …
“There have been many female stage-robbers in books and stories, but only one in the flesh … Pearl Hart, the woman who ‘held up’ the Globe stage at Cane Springs canon, Arizona, on May 30th of this year, in company with a male partner, had lived a hard life on the frontier …” Cosmopolitan Magazine, …
