Archive: Event Venue: National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

Western Heritage Awards

Honoring Significant Contributions to Western heritage April 14, 8:00 a.m. - April 15, 9:00 p.m. The Western Heritage Awards honors individuals who have made significant contributions to Western... Read More

Little Loksi

An Oklahoma Children’s Theatre world premiere! Little Loksi (Little Turtle) is having fun with his family when suddenly his world is turned upside down! Flipped onto his back with no way to roll over, Little Loksi finds he must rely on his friends and family to help him out. Little Loksi will... Read More

ARToons

Presented in conjunction with the Playing Cowboy and You Have Died of Dysentery exhibitions, ARToons will continue the playful nature of the exhibitions on display throughout the Museum at the same time. Focusing on western cartoons and comics created by Dave Powell, Duane Bryers, Jolly Bill... Read More

62nd Annual Western Heritage Awards Kick-Off Party

Presented by Pendleton Whisky with a special performance from Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Revue Music and Entertainment Presented by Cresap Family Foundation FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2023 Western attire 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Cocktails and live... Read More

Sunday Spotlight: Pearl Hart’s Revolver

“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 …”... Read More

Brown Bag: Exploring Comics

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... Read More

Read the West Book Club: Lonesome Dove

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... Read More

Date with the Duke: North to Alaska

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... Read More