101 Ranch & Wild West Show Mural
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Nonnamaker Building, 1929

101 Ranch and Wild West Show Mural, also, Nonnamaker Building, 1929. . , 101 Ranch and Wild West Show , Colonel George W. Miller founded the 101 Ranch in northern Oklahoma following the 1893 Cherokee Strip Land Run. He and his wife Molly, sons Joe, Zack and George Jr. along with daughter, Alma, helped establish what became known as the "Largest Diversified Farm and Ranch in America" just 5 miles southwest of Ponca City. The ranch held 110,000 acres of owned and leased lands raising a variety of livestock and crops. It was a small city in itself, employing thousands of people. The ranch housed a general store, café, meat processing facilities, tannery, dairy, school, oil refinery, rodeo show grounds and it had its own newspaper and printed money. , The Miller family also fielded the 101 Wild West Show and traveled the United States and the world from 1905 to 1931. Pioneers in movie making, some of the first western movies were filmed on the 101 Ranch. Presidents and celebrities from around the world were entertained at the ranch and the family home, known as the "White House" which in addition to headquarters for the vast empire was a palace on the Oklahoma prairie. , Eventually the ranch failed during the great American depression after 43 years of operation and was sold off in parcels in 1936. The headquarters site was listed as an Oklahoma Historical Site, placed on the National Register of Historic Places and became a National Historic Landmark in 1975. , 101 Ranch and Wild West Show Mural , The mural depicts the 101 Ranch and Wild West Show of the early 1900's. The graphic design of the mural is modeled after an advertising poster for the ranch and Wild West show of which there were many. Featured in the mural are a likeness of the three Miller brothers (Col. Joe C., George and Zack), and the large "White House" headquarters, the general store and café, the feed silo, a rodeo cowboy, trick-riding cowgirls, an oil well, apple orchards, buffalo and longhorns, Tony the bear, Chief White Eagle of the Ponca Tribe and Bill Pickett the famous rodeo "bull-dogger." All of these items existed as an integral part of the working ranch and traveling Wild West show. , Donor Plaque Listing , GOLD: ConocoPhillips, Inc., Don Hoffman Painting Co., Jim Rau and Shanley Wells-Rau, Pioneer Rental/John and Julie Redwine, Ponca City Main Street, Steve and Connie Little Family. , SILVER: 101 Ranch Old Timers Association, 101 Ranch Rodeo Foundation, Dr. Tim and Kathy Gilbert, Holmes and Yates, Attys., Jeff W. Miller (grandson of Colonel Joe C. Miller), Jerry and Pat Evans Family Foundation, Larry and Linda Brandt, Laurzell Holmes, Margaret Buckner McKeever (granddaughter of Bill Pickett), PC News c/o Tom and Sherry Muchmore, Sherwin-Williams Paint Co. , BRONZE: 101 Ranch Collectors Association, Barbara Mann Steinwedell (granddaughter of Alma Miller England), C.D. Northcutt, Continental Carbon, David and Terry Bell, Dick and Joan Jones, Ike and Mary Beth Glass, Jack Bowker Ford Lincoln-Mercury, Jerry and Ruth Murphey, Joseph and Christine Miller ( grandson of Colonel Joe C. Miller), William J and Joyce Miller (son of Colonel Joe C. Miller), Kathi Coatney (In memory of David Coatney), Mark and Jayne Detten Family, Phil and Ann Bandy, Terry Huston, Toni Gibson, Virginia Harth Richards (granddaughter of Colonel Joe C. Miller)