Events
- No events scheduled for March 21, 2022.
- No events scheduled for March 22, 2022.
- No events scheduled for March 23, 2022.
Week of Events
Read the West Book Club: Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Read the West Book Club: Letters of a Woman Homesteader
This book is composed of letters written by a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. Later, seeking to better herself, she …
Brown Bag Lunch Series: Inuit Traditional Skin Markings
Brown Bag Lunch Series: Inuit Traditional Skin Markings
Traditional Tattooer Holly Mititquq Nordlum discusses Inuit people, place, history, colonization, healing and wearing sacred markings in a modern context. Nordlum is one of a few women internationally bringing back Inuit markings to her people and working with the next generation. (Nordlum will speak via Zoom from Anchorage, Alaska.) Bring your lunch or purchase one …
Teacher Workshop – This Land is Herland: Women in the West
Teacher Workshop – This Land is Herland: Women in the West
Join us for a professional development opportunity for teachers (best suited for grades 6 –12) at the National Cowboy Museum in collaboration with the College of Education and Professional Studies, University of Central Oklahoma. This educator workshop focuses on the untold stories of women in the West as featured in This Land Is Herland: Gendered …
Old West Saturday
Old West Saturday
Experience the old west in a new way! Watch history come alive as re-enactor Esther Bates shares the hopeful and sometimes harrowing story of the Exodusters and the Black migration from the south to points West in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado following the Civil War. Send a text 1800s-style with Les Calger and his collection …