Metcalfe Museum

Our reception for our visiting artist, Carla Miller was held on Saturday. It was extremely well attended by many of her friends and neighbors in the western Oklahoma area. There…

The public is invited to attend our visiting artist reception on Saturday, June12 for Carla Miller. We will be celebrating her art work titled " Kids & Cows" starting at…

Our visiting artist for Summer 2021 is Carla Miller of Clinton, Oklahoma. Carla recently visited our museum. When we learned that she was one of our local artist, we invited…

We are excited to once again be holding our 2021 Summer Youth Art Camp. Classes will begin on Monday, June 21 and go through Friday, June 25, starting at 1:00pm…

While going through a couple of books in our office, I noticed a 2011 western art magazine I had stashed away, intending to someday read. As I thumbed through, one…

Books were always a very important part of the Corson/Metcalfe family. We have many books, some dating back to the 1800's. We have a one that belonged to Augusta's mother,…

Lloydelle & Roger Lester We are continuing our articles Trail Blazers, "Women on the Trails." Our drover is still Lizzie Johnson Williams, the Cattle Queen of Texas. Lizzie was not…

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Johnson Williams was born in 1840 in Missouri and came to Texas with her parents around the age of four. They settled on Bear Creek in Hayes County…

Doing research on women of the pioneer trail drives, I have found that some of these ladies endured hard times and tragedy. Margaret Hefferner Borland was one. She was widowed…

Today we are continuing our stories of women on the cattle trails. The cowboys were considered "Trailblazers" as were the women who accompanied them. One of those women was Harriett…