National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City Photos

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum of Oklahoma City is a major art museum specializing in Western art, as well as in cowboy history both actual & in films, frontier towns, & army troops of the American West. Gardens are adorned with sculptures capturing the spirit of cowboy life.

See also: Oklahoma
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Entrance to National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

Sculpted cow puncher with saddle outside National Cowboy Museum.

Coming through the Rye enlarged from sculpture by Frederic Remington at National Cowboy Museum.

Buildings of National Cowboy Museum with Remington's Coming through the Rye sculpture.

Statue of Buffalo Bill at National Cowboy Museum.

Paint Mare & Filly statue by Veryl Goodnight at National Cowboy Museum.

Gardens of National Cowboy Museum.

Lilly pond in gardens of National Cowboy Museum.

The End of the Trail monument by James Earle Fraser at National Cowboy Museum originally made in 1915 for Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

End of the Trail sculpture shows slumped Indian at end of era of American Western expansion at National Cowboy Museum.

Portrait detail of End of the Trail sculpture at National Cowboy Museum.

Beadwork bag (c1860) by Northern Plains possibly Dakota Indians at National Cowboy Museum.

Lakota buckskin beadwork vest & pants (c1885) at National Cowboy Museum.

Beadwork bag (c1900) in Plateau style at National Cowboy Museum.

Western Apache basket (c1920) at National Cowboy Museum.

Cahauilla basket (c1930) with rattlesnakes at National Cowboy Museum.

Hopi basket (1961) with eagle at National Cowboy Museum.

Bowl (1989) by San Ildefonso artist Nathan Youngblood at National Cowboy Museum.

Painting of Mackenzies 4th Regiment at Palo Duro by Joe Grandee at National Cowboy Museum.

Uniform of frontier cavalry soldier at National Cowboy Museum.

U.S. Army Scout military campaign hat (1885-95) at National Cowboy Museum.

U.S. officer's military dress uniform (c1880) at National Cowboy Museum.

U.S. military dress helmet for Indian Scouts with white horsehair plume (c1880) at National Cowboy Museum.

U.S. military officer's kit (c1850-80) at National Cowboy Museum.

U.S. military enlisted soldier's hat & blouse (c1885-99) at National Cowboy Museum.

Gatling gun (1870s) fired about 200 rounds per minute made by Colt Fire Arms of Hartford, CT, at National Cowboy Museum.

Early editions of Western novels at National Cowboy Museum.

Poster for Will Rogers' first film (1918) Laughing Bill Hyde at National Cowboy Museum.

Portrait of Will Rogers (1949) by Bettina Steinke at National Cowboy Museum.

Portrait of John Wayne (1978) by Everett Raymond Kinstler at National Cowboy Museum.

Memorabilia from Gunsmoke TV show at National Cowboy Museum.

Statue of Abraham Lincoln at National Cowboy Museum.

Statue of Ronald Reagan in After the Ride 1998 by Glenna Goodacre at National Cowboy Museum.

Portrait of Ronald Reagan (1992) by Everett Raymond Kinstler at National Cowboy Museum.


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