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The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch was a 110,000-acre (45,000 ha) cattle ranch in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma before statehood. Located near modern-day Ponca City, it was founded by Colonel George Washington Miller, a veteran of the Confederate Army, in 1893. [4] The 101 Ranch was the birthplace of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show and one of the ...
The 101 Ranch written by Ellsworth Collings in collaboration with Alma Miller England, narrates the history of the famed Miller Brothers 101 Ranch, the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show, and the Miller family who founded and operated both the ranch and the show. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was one of the last of the large Wild West shows.
Cowboy Hill. Coordinates: 36°36′24″N 97°08′17″W. Cowboy Hill is an Oklahoma Historic Site located on a bluff overlooking the Salt Fork of the Arkansas river in Kay County, Oklahoma. Zack Miller, owner of the famed 101 Ranch, gave the land to the Cherokee Strip Cowpunchers Association in 1930 for use as long as they needed it. In 1959 ...
Marland's Grand Home is a 1910s period mansion built in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The Grand Home is owned by the City of Ponca City and includes exhibit rooms for Miller Brothers 101 Ranch history, Native American archaeology, artifacts and art, and Daughters of the American Revolution exhibits. The Grand Home was formerly known as ...
Lucille Mulhall, c. 1914. Mulhall performing c. 1909. Lucille Mulhall (October 21, 1885 – December 21, 1940) was a well-known cowgirl and Wild West performer. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Zach and Agnes Mulhall. [1] Her parents brought her to the Oklahoma Territory in 1889. She was raised on her family's Mulhall Ranch in Oklahoma ...
101 Ranch Oil Company. Founded in 1908 by oil exploration pioneer E. W. Marland, The 101 Ranch Oil Company was located on the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch and headquartered in Ponca City, Oklahoma. The company's 1911 oil discovery in North Eastern Oklahoma opened up oil development in a great region from Eastern Oklahoma west to Mervine, Newkirk ...
Lillian Frances Smith. Lillian Frances Smith (August 4, 1871 [ nb 1] – February 3, 1930) [ 4] was an American trick shooter and trick rider who joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1886, at the age of fourteen. [ 5] She was billed as "the champion California huntress," [ 6] and was a direct rival to Annie Oakley in the show. [ 7][ 8]
Lewis Haines Wentz, (Lew Wentz) born in Tama, Iowa, on November 10, 1877, was an essential factor in opening up the oil fields of Oklahoma.Reared in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Wentz was too poor for college and started out in 1909 by organizing a semi-professional baseball team, the old Oneida Base Ball Club, that was organized in an effort to build a better team than Barney Dreyfuss ...