Real Wild West Show Ponaca, Oklahoma, 1927 – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Real Wild West Show Ponaca, Oklahoma, 1927 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Real Wild West Show, season 1927
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Real Wild West Show Ponaca, Oklahoma, 1927
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Ponca City, Oklahoma, in 1927 was a boomtown shaped by oil. A strike in the area in 1911 had drawn prospectors, drillers, and supply merchants, and the Marland Oil Company's operations made the town one of the state's busiest centers of petroleum work. Nearby, the Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch was famous across the Southwest for its cattle, its horses, and its traveling Wild West show, which combined riding, roping, and staged frontier scenes for paying crowds. This panoramic view records one of those performances, when cowboys and ranch hands, many of them working ranch people, turned the arena into a stage for the region's rodeo tradition. Local residents would have known the show as a point of civic pride, a rare chance for a young oil town to be seen as part of the cattle country that surrounded it.
| Created / published | 1927 |
|---|---|
| Creator | brown, v. t. (virgil t.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Oklahoma |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 807 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Real Wild West Show, season 1927 |
| Reference | OK 1927 Real Wild West Show Ponaca |
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