101 Ranch

The ranch stood on Ponca land that George W. Miller leased from 1893, and its fame came from performance. In 1905 the Millers staged Oklahoma's Gala Day at Bliss for the National Editorial Association, showing off their cowboys and American Indian performers, with Bill Pickett and Lucille Mulhall on the bill. The show toured from 1907, played for King George V and Queen Mary in 1914, and in 1916 joined Buffalo Bill Cody's. Movies, circuses and rodeos thinned its crowds in the 1920s, the family lost $119,970 in 1926, and in 1931 the 101 went into receivership.

What the plaque says

101 Ranch Old boundary line here Named for its cattle brand "101," this ranch was begun by Col. Geo. W. Miller on his claim at the opening of the Cherokee Strip, Sept. 16, 1893. Operated by sons George, Joe and Zach Miller, the ranch covered 100,000 a. by 1926, world famous for its "White House," Wild West Show, oil wells, livestock, farm crops and manufactured products. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Standing Bear Park & Museum — 9.0 mi
  An eight-acre park and museum in Ponca City built by six area nations and the town together, under a 22-foot bronze of the Ponca chief whose 1879 case made Native people persons at law.
• Marland Mansion — 11 mi
  E. W. Marland's 55-room Palace on the Prairie, built in Ponca City from 1925 to 1928 on oil first struck on a Ponca allotment, and lived in for only about three years.
• Kanza Museum — 21 mi
  The Kaw Nation's museum at its Kaw City headquarters, telling in the Nation's own voice the century after the Kanza left Kansas: allotment, legal erasure, a drowned reservation and the return.
• Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School — 21 mi
  Perry's museum of the Cherokee Outlet, in a town that was a land office on bare prairie the morning of September 16, 1893 and held some 25,000 people that night.

More markers nearby

• Otoe-Missouria Tribal Reservation — 6.7 mi
• Pawnee Agency — 25 mi