National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

Arrived in Oklahoma City with a threatening storm coming our way.  The Pardini's and us had a great time visiting and sharing some wine.  That evening the sky went BOOM, BANG, and poured!  

The next day it continued to poured, so we planned on an indoor activity to wait our the storm.  Good call. We made it to the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.  It was wonderful!

As you enter the building, you see "The End of the Trail" sculpture which is as tall as the trees behind the windows.  It was meant to be cast in bronze, but the sculptor, James Fraser, left it in the original plaster do to the shortage of metal during World War 1.  This original statue sat in Visalia, CA, was replacedwith a bronze replica.

Next, we went through exhibits of Ansel Adams photography and "Madonnas of the Prairie".  Then off to western art by Charles Russell and Frederic Remington.  One exhibition housed a fronteir town called Prosperity.

Jim jailed!