September 18, 2011

Museum Trip

WR mural
Will's room

We recently visited the Will Rogers Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma. The witty rope slinger who never met a man he didn't like was born less than 20 miles from my home, and although I count him among my heroes, I'd never been to the museum in Claremore. I pretty much want to just move in there and live in this room, a recreation of his study in his California home.

will statue

After we'd had our fill of Will Rogers memorabilia, we headed just down the road to the J. M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum which houses the largest private gun collection in the world. There were guns, yes, but so much more. Here are some of the things that caught my eye.

bird display
bird dome
vaseline glass
gunfighter
tooled saddle
tooled stirrup
pinup saddle
pinup stirrup
zithers
banjos
WR roundup
pipes
ribbons
museum buttons

4 comments:

Tex Montana said...

Grab me one of them thar pipes.

Briana Shepley said...

Um, yeah. That room? Those pipes? Gimme.

Heather said...

That's awesome! I love that room. And all those instruments! We okies have some neat stuff :)

Robin Thomas said...

I did this same museum trip with my daughter.nso good to do these simple trips. She happens to be someone whonlikes simple pleasures and doesn't need cotton candy which at Disney, you know what I mean?

Bravo!