The national Appaloosa Horse Club (AHC) recently signed a three-year contract with Oklahoma City to host its 75th National Appaloosa Show in 2023 and the 2023 World Championship Appaloosa Youth Show. The event runs June 27 through July 5.
The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is helping highlight an area often overlooked when referring the American West with their Art of the Northwest Coast exhibition.
Prix de West, the nation’s premier Western art exhibition and sale, will be held at The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum this month. The event is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and will feature over 300 pieces of Western art from contemporary Western artists.
Oklahoma City’s Stockyards City will host the Stockyards Stampede on Saturday, October 16th. Longhorns will kick off the event at 10:00 a.m. by parading down the street, followed by a day full of western heritage celebrations.
In Oklahoma City, the cattle industry spurred one of the first major drivers of our economy: a meat-packing plant and stockyards which was in, you guessed it, Stockyards City.
Oklahoma City’s history was shaped by cowboy culture and that culture is still alive and well today. You can experience it for yourself at Stockyards City, just a few miles southwest of downtown OKC.
Oklahoma City is fortunate to have world-class institutions that provide a better historical understanding of the cultures that helped drive Oklahoma City’s early development.
In episode 22, we encourage everyone to Stand Tall, Shop Small for OKC and talk about the Chamber’s summer “support local” campaign. We also talk more local hard seltzer, new Oklahoma River Cruise landings at the Stockyards and the First Americans Museum, traveling on the Heartland Flyer and more.
