National Cowboy Museum on Route 66: Historic Travel & Western History

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<p>Imagine looking out over the endless red dirt of the southern plains</p>
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<p>in the 1930s as dark, suffocating clouds of dust swallow the sun.</p>
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<p>Crops are ruined, livelihoods are shattered, and families pack everything</p>
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<p>they own into jalopies to head west along a brand-new two-lane highway.</p>
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<p>In 1939, author John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, chronicling the</p>
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<p>migration from Oklahoma to California and forever branding Highway 66 as the Mother</p>
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<p>Road, a ribbon of asphalt carrying the desperate search for the American dream.</p>
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<p>Long before that highway was paved, this land was shaped by Native nations,</p>
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<p>homesteaders claiming plots in land runs, and rugged cowhands driving</p>
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<p>cattle north across the open frontier.</p>
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<p>The American West was defined by ambition, heartbreak, grit, and</p>
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<p>the legends that captured the imagination of the entire world</p>
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<p>Welcome to Talk with History.</p>
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<p>One filmmaker, one historian, leading history-inspired world</p>
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<p>travels for the curious, the history lovers, and the explorer in us all.</p>
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<p>I am your host, Scott, here with my wife and historian, Jenn.</p>
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<p>Hello.</p>
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<p>Today we are continuing our Route 66 journey as we pull off the</p>
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<p>highway in Oklahoma City to explore the massive, world-class National</p>
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<p>Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.</p>
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<p>This museum covers the full, complex tapestry of Western expansion from Lewis,</p>
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<p>Clark, and Sacagawea to the poignant power of James Earl Frazier's monumental</p>
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<p>1894 sculpture, The End of the Trail, depicting the exhaustion of American</p>
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<p>We're also exploring the rich history of the National Rodeo Hall of Fame,</p>
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<p>viewing original artifacts from legends like Annie Oakley, including</p>
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<p>her actual rifle, and honoring Oklahoma's favorite son, Will Rogers.</p>
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<p>We'll also take you through their life-size Western town and take a look</p>
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<p>at the Hollywood side of, of the West with iconic film memorabilia worn by</p>
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<p>John Wayne himself in the classics like True Grit and Rooster Cogburn.</p>
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<p>I'm Scott Bennie, so tip your hat, saddle up, and step inside.</p>
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<p>We're discovering the legends of the West on Route 66.</p>
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<p>All right, Jenn.</p>
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<p>So we are making our way across Route 66.</p>
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<p>We're getting close to the midpoint now.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
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<p>And this is our Route 66 series, so this was one that we had talked</p>
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<p>about ahead of time, and we are still in Ok- Oklahoma for this.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>And so we're at the National Was it National Cowboy and</p>
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<p>Western Heritage Museum?</p>
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<p>Yeah, so we had g- left Joplin.</p>
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<p>We just did, uh, Bonnie and Clyde.</p>
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<p>Just did Bonnie and Clyde.</p>
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<p>We did the little bit in Kansas, and w- we didn't make specific videos in these</p>
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<p>locations, but when you see our long Route 66 video, we stop in these locations.</p>
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<p>And Tulsa is where we stopped overnight.</p>
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<p>That's right.</p>
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<p>So we stopped in Tulsa overnight.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>So we'll talk a little bit about what we saw in Tulsa because, um- They-</p>
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<p>Well, no, we talked about it last time.</p>
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<p>Yeah, they had the big statues</p>
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<p>and stuff.</p>
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<p>They had the big statues, so we talked about that.</p>
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<p>Now, this museum- Yeah … was way bigger and way better than I expected it to be.</p>
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<p>It's 200,000 square feet.</p>
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<p>It's huge.</p>
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<p>It's huge.</p>
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<p>It… So it's right and smack in the middle of Oklahoma, Ok- in</p>
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<p>Oklahoma City, so in the capital.</p>
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<p>So it opened in 1955.</p>
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<p>It name changed in 1960.</p>
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<p>Um, 200,000 square feet, but what's really neat about this museum is they</p>
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<p>have over 28,000 artifacts and artwork, uh, depicting the West, depicting</p>
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<p>American Indians, depicting, uh, cowboys, military, and it's just amazing.</p>
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<p>And even when you first walk in, there is a huge bronze.</p>
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<p>Out front, and this bronze is called-</p>
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<p>It was really cool.</p>
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<p>So i- if, again, if you're new to the podcast, I'll link to this</p>
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<p>video where we're on location at the museum in the, in the show notes.</p>
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<p>But the museum out front was this very, like, very different.</p>
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<p>It wasn't your typical cowboy style, like with a lasso or a- sitting</p>
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<p>on a horse or doing whatever.</p>
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<p>But it was, it was much more artistic, but I was actually pretty impressed by it.</p>
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<p>Yeah, they really do a good job of housing, like, a lot of</p>
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<p>sculpture and- Yeah … bronze.</p>
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<p>And the bronze out front is called Welcome Sundown, and it was created by</p>
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<p>award-winning artist Hollis Williford, and it's neat because it kinda shows a</p>
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<p>cowboy with his hand over his eyes, and he looks like he's exhausted from the day.</p>
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<p>He's taking a saddle off the horse, and he looks like he's just ready to go to sleep.</p>
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<p>And so it's really neat 'cause it's gonna be telling you this entire story</p>
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<p>of the cowboy and the westerner, and Scott opened up with Route 66 because</p>
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<p>if you read Grapes of Wrath, the family is leaving from Oklahoma, and that's</p>
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<p>kind of- The Dust Bowl era of the 1930s.</p>
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<p>Why are so many people migrating from Oklahoma to California is because</p>
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<p>the agriculture jobs have gone away because they've really, like,</p>
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<p>they've over, uh, farmed the area.</p>
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<p>It's a drought.</p>
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<p>They can't farm, so there's no jobs for people, and so they're moving west.</p>
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<p>And so they're using Route 66 to do this.</p>
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<p>And so there was a lot of Route 66 memorabilia- Yeah … inside</p>
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<p>there, like old signs.</p>
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<p>And, and right, right in the front, right in the front of the museum,</p>
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<p>they embrace that whole story.</p>
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<p>They actually have a picture of John Steinbeck talk about The Grapes of Wrath.</p>
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<p>So they, they talk all about that, and that's kind of the opening of our video.</p>
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<p>And also, this museum is right off of Route 66.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>So it's, I, I don't know if it's, like, just an exit off, but</p>
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<p>it's- It's a easy, it's a, it's a, it makes sense to stop here-</p>
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<p>Yeah … if you're doing the Route 66.</p>
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<p>And it's great, it's a great stop with kids.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And we're gonna explain why, 'cause it's a real, it's a lot of interactive</p>
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<p>stuff that you can do there.</p>
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<p>And like I said, it's 2,000, 200,000 square feet.</p>
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<p>Uh, established in 1955 as the Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum, and</p>
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<p>then in 1960 the name was officially changed to the National Cowboy Hall</p>
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<p>of Fame and Western Heritage Center.</p>
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<p>Uh, and now it really is like a rodeo hall of fame as well.</p>
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<p>So they kind of en- encompass all of it.</p>
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<p>But what's really neat is you first walk in, and again, they're really embracing</p>
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<p>the art and the stories of, of the West.</p>
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<p>So you get End of Trail, and you get the big James Frazier</p>
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<p>sculpture of the American Indian.</p>
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<p>I mean, it's probably 20 feet high, maybe, maybe bigger.</p>
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<p>It's beautiful.</p>
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<p>It's white.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Uh, it was sculpted in 1894, and it really shows the wind at the back</p>
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<p>of this American Indian and how he's</p>
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<p>It's supposed to kind of give you this fluidity of being forced off of their</p>
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<p>native land, and he has nowhere to go.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And he just looks really downtrodden and exhausted and, and so that is</p>
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<p>the first thing you kind of see.</p>
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<p>So know that they're gonna embrace this entire story there.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And if you wanna see what that looks like, again, I've got video of it.</p>
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<p>Um, eventually we'll kind of get the video version of this podcast probably</p>
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<p>onto Apple Podcast, but it's on YouTube.</p>
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<p>So if you wanna, if you're watching the video version of this, I'm probably</p>
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<p>cutting this B roll over right now.</p>
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<p>If you're listening and you're curious to kind of see what this looks</p>
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<p>like, the link to the video version will be in the podcast show notes.</p>
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<p>But it's, it's doing a good job of telling Western expansion.</p>
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<p>How does this look?</p>
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<p>Oklahoma was really a part of the Louisiana Purchase, and Oklahoma</p>
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<p>is this contentious area where the American Indians had their, uh,</p>
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<p>reservations at, but that's also where they gave land grants to people.</p>
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<p>So you're gonna get the cowboys, the homesteaders.</p>
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<p>In 1830s, um, they're gonna force the American Indian tribes from their homes</p>
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<p>to move east, and so it's becomes a real known American Indian territory.</p>
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<p>But in, becomes the 46th state in 1907, and the reason it gets its</p>
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<p>name Oklahoma, it's a Choctaw phrase and it translates to red people.</p>
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<p>Ah, interesting.</p>
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<p>The American Indian land, but it's gonna be homesteaded, and</p>
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<p>it's going to be established, and the cowboys are gonna work it.</p>
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<p>And so it's embracing this entire story, plus it's right along Route 66.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>A- and it's really neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So once you walk in- Mm-hmm … you know, and the- and it's fun because</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>the docents are all walking around in cowboy boots and cowboy hats.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Um, and so obviously they're, they're local to that area, but they're,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>they're there to help you out.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>They… You'll see the big statue that we talked about, End of Trail.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>There's, like, a stagecoach if kids wanna climb inside of it, you</p>
<p></p>
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<p>know, an old done-up stagecoach.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Looks like a Wells Fargo one.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Um, and you can go a couple different ways.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>You can walk through, there's an art exhibit that we walked through, the art</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:33</time>
<p>exhibit, and I think I led off with the video, and there's some beautiful art in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>there, Lewis and Clark and some- Oh, yes</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Western paintings.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It was just gorgeous.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>They have an</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>extensive collection of Frederic Remington.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So Remington is … We love Remington.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>We own one of his sculptures.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Uh- We own Bronco Buster, the 1895 bronze.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It's also in the White House, and that sculpture had been in the White</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>House from Jimmy Carter all the way through Donald Trump's presidency.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Biden removed it, and Trump put it back in there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So it's called Bronc- Bronco Buster, and it, it's just a depiction of</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Remington of a man riding a bronco.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Uh, but he's done so much extensive artwork, and they have all of that there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It's really beautiful to see.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>A-</p>
<p></p>
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<p>and I… So I knew Remington a little bit from his sculptures.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>I didn't know he had done art, and so when I saw it there, it</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>kinda looked familiar, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>'Cause it's got that same style.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And I, and so I was naturally drawn to it, and then you pointed out,</p>
<p></p>
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<p>like, "Oh, that's a Remington," right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So I… It was really neat, and even people commented on the video, 'cause</p>
<p></p>
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<p>I took some close-up shots of, like, this buffalo on the range and, you</p>
<p></p>
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<p>know, these Native Americans, you know, kinda out in, in their element</p>
<p></p>
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<p>and all these different, uh, paintings that were there, and I didn't even</p>
<p></p>
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<p>get to cover a small portion of them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Uh, but people commented like, "Oh, those are, those are beautiful."</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Yes, and what's really cool for me is they had some artifacts of Annie Oakley.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>That was cool.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So they had her, two of her rifles were there, plus they had some of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>the coins that her husband would throw, and she would shoot them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Oh, yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>They had some of those coins that had the bullet depiction in it.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Uh, and they had, of course, some photographs of her, but it was really</p>
<p></p>
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<p>neat to see artifacts with her name on it, and that was really super cool for me.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>But what I loved with the kids is they had saddles there, so</p>
<p></p>
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<p>you could get on the saddles.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>You could see what a side saddle felt like.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Uh, but they had a recreation of a Western town, like the main street.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>And if you see the video, I said, "It feels like The Man Who Shot Liberty</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Valance," 'cause you walk out there, and it's like the church at the end of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>the town, the saloon, the livery, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Like, everything is kinda there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Yeah, and so we walked through there, and it was pretty empty while we were there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Uh, we were there kind of in the middle of the week on our road trip.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>But if you go to the, the, their website, it actually looks like occasionally</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>they'll, like, serve food in this area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It's wide enough for them to serve food or drinks or things like that, and they</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>had little areas you could walk off.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It wasn't just this, this street with the f- with the facades.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It was, you could walk into what looked like a Western bar or a</p>
<p></p>
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<p>schoolroom or things like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So that was really cool.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>And then we went outside.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So I wanna talk about this outside area, and then we're gonna talk about</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>the movie stars they honor there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>But if you had, if it wasn't as hot, because we love to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>go- Oh … Route 66 in July.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It was so hot outside.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It was so hot outside.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>But if it was good weather, they had depictions of housing of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>different people in the West.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So they had adobes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>They had tipis.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>They had, uh- A Western town facade.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Things that you could walk around and interact with, the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>kids could play and climb.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>That was really neat, and they had a huge bronze of Remington's Coming Through the</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Rye, which is, like, four men on horseback with their guns in the air shooting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>That's cool.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Uh, this is a 1902 bronze that he made, but they had a huge depiction of it, so</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>you can kinda stand there among that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>They also had a statue of Annie Oakley- Yeah … that you could, like,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>stand beside and take pictures with.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So it was a really great interactive for the kids if they wanna get outside and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>touch things and play around and climb.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>I thought it was really great.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:09</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>A- and again, as I was poking around on their website after I was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>making the video, was it looks like they'll do, um, concerts outside.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So I saw, you know, and this is right on their website, so they'll do concerts</p>
<p></p>
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<p>with country music and fiddlers and all the stuff that they're doing there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Um, and so if you think about it, i- in that area, it's pretty central</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>in that Midwest kind of not too far from Texas and Oklahoma and all this</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:35</time>
<p>kinda cowboy culture in that area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So there's a lot that's done there at this museum.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Yeah, and, like, it, it says in its name, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It's the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:47</time>
<p>So they really are trying, uh, to tell the entire story of everybody</p>
<p></p>
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<p>who was part of settling the West, but it also h- holds, uh, a big movie.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>How is it depicted on screen?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>I</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>think that was our favorite part,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>you and I. We love that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Oh.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So they have a ton of movie artifacts there, and they really embrace their story</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:06</time>
<p>of Oklahoma's, uh, number one son, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>His, Oklahoma's favorite son, William Penn Adair Rogers, and not</p>
<p></p>
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<p>to be confused with Roy Rogers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So I, I confused Roy Ro- him, him with Roy Rogers all the time, uh, 'cause</p>
<p></p>
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<p>I, growing up, uh, my parents had some VHS tapes of Roy Rogers movies.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And so I actually, when I was growing up, I watched some Roy Rogers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So when I saw Will Rogers, I had to</p>
<p></p>
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<p>You and I were talking, and, like, no, no, no, Will Rogers was, started</p>
<p></p>
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<p>off as, like, the silent movie star-</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Yes</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>… of that era.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>And he dies in 1935, very young at 55 years old.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Now, people know Roy Rogers, Die Hard, things like that, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:43</time>
<p>And he's the, he's the singing cowboy- He's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>the singing cowboy, yep</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:45</time>
<p>… with the glittery shirts and stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:47</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:47</time>
<p>Right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:48</time>
<p>And this is during the heyday of cowboys on television, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:51</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:51</time>
<p>And so a lot of boys grew up with Roy Rogers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:54</time>
<p>Will Rogers really sets the scene for that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:56</time>
<p>He's a Vaudeville actor, um, and he's a Native American</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:59</time>
<p>Vaudeville perpor- performer.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Uh, he's born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation- Oh, I didn't know that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:04</time>
<p>um, and part of Oklahoma.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:06</time>
<p>Oh, wow.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:06</time>
<p>And then he becomes a entertainer, a humorist, and he travels, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:09</time>
<p>'Cause he's Vaudeville.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:10</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:11</time>
<p>Right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:11</time>
<p>And he makes over 71 films, 50 of them are silent.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:14</time>
<p>Um, and then h- they, you know, they're nationally known, so people</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:18</time>
<p>know Will Rogers, but he dies young.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:21</time>
<p>He dies, uh, in a th- plane crash at 55 years old, and so he really sets the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:27</time>
<p>tone for that- initial generation of moviegoers, but then it's Roy Rogers</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:33</time>
<p>who really jumps onto the screen.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:35</time>
<p>And again, when people are watching, you know, High Noon and, and all of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:39</time>
<p>these John Wayne, when you're watching the, the Western actors of the '50s and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:43</time>
<p>'60s, that's their remember Roy Rogers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:47</time>
<p>But Will Rogers is Oklahoma's favorite son, and so they have</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:50</time>
<p>a whole area depicted to him with a lot of his artifacts.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:53</time>
<p>Uh, but as you turn the corner, they ba- pretty much have, like,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:56</time>
<p>a whole display to John Wayne.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:58</time>
<p>Oh, yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:59</time>
<p>It's, it's huge, and so we spend at least a little chunk of the video on that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:03</time>
<p>because they show a kind of, like, the, the s- the span of John Wayne's career.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>They have a bunch of his memorabilia, which you'll talk</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>about, and some other things.</p>
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<p>And it's right in the heart of this, this Hollywood history,</p>
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<p>Western Hollywood history area.</p>
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<p>And it's neat because, like Scott said, they're kinda going through, like, the</p>
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<p>story of cowboys depicted on screen.</p>
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<p>But then John Wayne has his whole display to himself.</p>
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<p>So they have the eye patch when he played Rooster Cogburn in the second movie.</p>
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<p>They have a outfit from The Searchers.</p>
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<p>They have a bunch of his real weapons.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>A bunch of the real guns he owned were donated to the museum, so you</p>
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<p>can see them, and some of them are engraved with his name on them.</p>
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<p>So it was neat to see a bunch of the weapons he received as gifts</p>
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<p>or people gave to him or he used.</p>
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<p>They were all there.</p>
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<p>It was just super neat.</p>
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<p>And then Maureen O'Hara is also honored there because of all</p>
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<p>the movies they did together.</p>
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<p>And then Jimmy Stewart, 'cause of course you're gonna get The Man Who</p>
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<p>Shot Liberty Valance and Shenandoah.</p>
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<p>And then it was neat for us, too, because, uh, if you remember, Scott's</p>
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<p>great-grandfather was the prop master on, uh, every episode of Bonanza.</p>
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<p>And, uh, so they had a bunch of the Bonanza stuff.</p>
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<p>Michael Landon's, uh, pistol was there.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>That was cool.</p>
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<p>So it was neat to see all of that, especially how</p>
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<p>we're connected to it there.</p>
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<p>So it was, they're walking you through cowboys depicted on screen.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And they actually did have a Roy Rogers section.</p>
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<p>I didn't show too much of it in the video, 'cause we didn't talk as much about that.</p>
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<p>But they, so they've got all the way from Will Rogers, who kind of set the</p>
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<p>scene for the cowboy actors, all the way up through John Wayne and Roy Rogers</p>
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<p>and, uh, not, not too close to modern.</p>
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<p>I didn't see too many modern kind of Western actors in there.</p>
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<p>But it was super fun.</p>
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<p>That was probably our favorite section.</p>
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<p>We didn't get to make it over to the rodeo section.</p>
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<p>I think that was being, uh… I think it was, like it was under</p>
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<p>construction or something like that.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>So I think it was, it was</p>
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<p>closed off.</p>
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<p>We didn't make it to, like, the military rodeo.</p>
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<p>But they have, it is the Rodeo Hall of Fame, and they consider s- themselves</p>
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<p>the first Rodeo Hall of Fame.</p>
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<p>And I grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming.</p>
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<p>Most people, if you f- follow the show, you know this.</p>
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<p>We used to watch rodeo on TV.</p>
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<p>Like, my mom, to pass the time, would watch rodeo on television.</p>
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<p>And I remember Don Gay was the commentator.</p>
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<p>He was, he had won eight, like, bull riding championships, P, uh,</p>
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<p>PRG or whatever they call that.</p>
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<p>Right.</p>
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<p>Now it's PBA.</p>
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<p>P- yeah.</p>
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<p>He, he had won eight of them.</p>
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<p>And so he was the commentator always talking about stuff.</p>
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<p>And then I grew up working the rodeo at Cheyenne Frontier Days</p>
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<p>where Lane Frost was killed in 1989.</p>
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<p>Now, Lane Frost was, uh, inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2008.</p>
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<p>But if you know anything about Lane Frost, his best friend, Tuff Hedeman, uh, who,</p>
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<p>he's the one that developed the vests that everyone wears now as a rodeo rider,</p>
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<p>as a bull rider, so, like, you can't get gored like what happened to Lane Frost.</p>
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<p>Uh, he, uh- Was, he's considered the second-best bull rider of all</p>
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<p>time, Lane Frost's best friend.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And if you saw the movie with, uh, Luke Perry-</p>
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<p>Yeah</p>
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<p>… he's played by, uh, Stephen Baldwin plays him.</p>
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<p>And Tuff Hedeman actually did the, his stunts for him.</p>
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<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Oh, wow.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So he did his own stunts for the man who's playing him- Oh, interesting</p>
<p></p>
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<p>in, in the movie.</p>
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<p>So that, we should- That's cool … we should talk about that movie sometime.</p>
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<p>It's called 8 Seconds, 'cause that's how long you have to stay on the bull.</p>
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<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>You have eight seconds to keep your one hand off the bull.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And so, uh, but it's the story of Lane Frost.</p>
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<p>So there are people, if you know anything about rodeo, there are people</p>
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<p>who are in the Rodeo Hall of Fame, and this area is depicted as the</p>
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<p>first Rodeo Hall of Fame of all time.</p>
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<p>So it is the National Rodeo Hall of Fame as well.</p>
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<p>Yeah, it, it was really cool 'cause there's a ton of interactive</p>
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<p>content, especially if you're bringing your kids there.</p>
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<p>There's, I mean, uh, legitimately interactive, not just statues</p>
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<p>that they can look at, but stuff that they can take pictures.</p>
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<p>Like, you could stand in one spot, they would take your picture,</p>
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<p>and they would put your picture on, in, like, a cowboy scene.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>And so, like, my, our kids loved that, so that was super fun.</p>
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<p>Like, it was hard for me to get pictures of it because it was all kind</p>
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<p>of screens and everything like that.</p>
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<p>But inside, outside was really, really neat.</p>
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<p>It's easy to get to coming off of Route 66.</p>
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<p>Definitely worth it.</p>
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<p>The docents were great.</p>
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<p>The artwork was super cool.</p>
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<p>You know, I'm bummed we didn't get to hit, like, the rodeo and the military</p>
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<p>section, 'cause those were kind of, i… Those were closed off when we were there.</p>
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<p>But, um, absolutely world-class museum and definitely worth seeing.</p>
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<p>Worth the visit, and you're probably gonna need more than one.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And if you wanna g- visit these, right, if you're watching this, so we</p>
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<p>Yeah, and it was super cool.</p>
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<p>Thank you, Oklahoma City.</p>
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<p>It was great to visit.</p>
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<p>What a great museum.</p>
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<p>Our kids loved it.</p>
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<p>A great stop around Route 66.</p>
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<p>They embrace the story of Route 66.</p>
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<p>They understand their place o- on it.</p>
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<p>And, uh, if you're just looking for a way to get, you know, some</p>
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<p>air conditioning like we were-</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>… it was a great place to stop.</p>
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<p>Absolutely.</p>
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<p>As you walk past the towering bronze sculptures and out the front doors</p>
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<p>of the museum, you leave with a deeper appreciation of the complex,</p>
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<p>layered history of the American West.</p>
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<p>From the heartbreaking reality immortalized in The End of Trail to</p>
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<p>the precision of Annie Oakley and the cinematic legends of John Wayne,</p>
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<p>this museum honors the triumphs, the tragedies, and the resilience of the</p>
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<p>people who shaped this landscape.</p>
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<p>Oklahoma City isn't just a midway mark on Route 66.</p>
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<p>It is the beating heart of the stories that define the Mother</p>
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<p>Road and inspire generations to look toward the Western horizon.</p>
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