... Oklahoma has given the world numerous famous horsemen and horsewomen. Lucille Mulhall of the Mulhall ranch near Mulhall, Okla., was referred to by Theodore Roosevelt as one of the best horsewomen in the world, and in her book of press clippings today are hundreds of news stories telling of her prowess as a ride and roper. Tom Mix, of movie fame, spent much of his early life on the prairies of Oklahoma, and Will Rogers, that "ambassador without portfolio" and fancy roper par excellence, wrangled horses and rode the range around Claremore for many years before the nation's eyes were turned upon him.

But despite the few remaining cowboys and the scattered ranch houses, the fact still remains that the old West is gone and the old West way of doing business if ast passing into the limbo of discarded things.

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