Pawnee Bill's Original Wild West Show

Last Three Saturdays in June!

June 11, June 18, June 25, 2011 - 7:30pm

Pawnee Bill Ranch Site, Pawnee, Oklahoma

Stagecoaches will roll amid thundering horse hooves while the lightning of gunfire explodes around Pawnee Bill and his cohorts as the talented cast thrill and amaze audiences at the 2011 Wild West Show series. Pawnee Bill's Original Wild West Show performs at 7:30pm on June 11, 18, and 25 at the historic Pawnee Bill Ranch. The Show will feature acts from the original Pawnee Bill's Wild West Shows. Producers and directors have combined stage and script with historical preservation to ensure that the Wild West Show is one of the most historically accurate productions to date. Kevin Webb portrays Pawnee Bill for the third time around in 2011.  Webb, a long time Wild West Show cast member and Ranch employee, is also a whip artist and chariot racer.   

In the tradition of the original Wild West Show, the cast will assemble on the Ranch grounds and parade to the arena at 5:45 p.m. The museum and mansion will be open to the public on show days from 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. In addition, there will be historically accurate entertainment such as blacksmithing and flint knapping demonstrations, gunfighters and sharp shooters, a medicine man show and musicians, all free and held continuously on the Ranch grounds until the sideshow opens at 6:00 p.m. The Friends of the Pawnee Bill Ranch Association will serve a buffalo burger meal in the big barn all afternoon.
 

Ticket prices in advance are $12.00 for adults, $8 for children age 10 and under (ages 3 and under are free), senior tickets (over 65) are $10.00. Box seats are $100.00 per box.  Group rates (10 people and over) are $10.00 per ticket.  On the day of the show ticket prices are $14.00 for adults, $10.00 for children ages 10 and under (ages 3 and under are free), senior tickets are $12.00.  Box seats are $125.00 per box.  Call (918) 762-2513 to purchase tickets or for more information.  There are NO online ticket sales for this show.  The online tickets are for a show in Fort Worth, Texas.  We are not affiliated with the Fort Worth, Texas show.  Please call (918)762-2513 if you have questions about the show.

Found in Collections

Chips from the Ole' Oke

Paul C. Quillian and Lorie L. Quillin Davis

The USS Oklahoma Association Collection is available for public use and research projects in the Research Center of the Oklahoma History Center. The collection consists of papers, records, publications and other ephemera spanning nine decades. First formed in 1949 as the "Commissioning and World War No 1 Crew - USS Oklahoma Veteran's Association," then renamed in 1954 as the "USS Oklahoma Veteran's Association," the Association was officially incorporated as the "USS Oklahoma Association" in February of 1975. This name carried through the late nineties. The association's members consisted of sailors, marines and officers who served aboard the USS Oklahoma BB-37, berthed on the east coast as part of the Atlantic Fleet following participation in World War One, from the ship's commissioning in 1916 through Pearl Harbor in 1941 and finally to when its name was struck from the List of Ships in the Navy Register by Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, in November of 1944.

The members of the association made numerous contributions of personal memorabilia and records to the association throughout its existence, including correspondence, membership rolls, reunion notes, business meeting minutes, attendance books and reports from association officers including the Ship's Writer, Ship's Paymaster and Historians. Official Navy records found herein contain copies of muster rolls, daily orders, promotion lists, salvage records, blueprints of the ship and salvage equipment configurations. Scrapbooks for each year between 1916 and 1941 were kept and are now accessible for viewing. Crew donations include menus, bar bills, souvenirs from around the world, holiday cards, and letters to and from sweethearts or family members. These contributions give poignant insight, uplifting stories and, sometimes, very humorous and interesting anecdotes about life aboard this famous battleship.  Read more of the story...