A Patriotic Family Road Trip in Oklahoma

Oklahoma State Capitol

Oklahoma City, OK

The only state capitol in the country with an active oil well on its own grounds, nicknamed "Petunia No. 1."

Oklahoma City National Memorial

Oklahoma City, OK

168 empty chairs on the footprint of the Murrah Federal Building.

National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

Oklahoma City, OK

The definitive collection of Western art, rodeo history and frontier life.

Will Rogers Memorial Museum

Claremore, OK

The papers, ropes and saddles of the Cherokee cowboy who became America's most quoted man.

Gilcrease Museum

Tulsa, OK

The largest collection of American West art and artifacts anywhere, assembled by an oilman.

Pioneer Woman Museum

Ponca City, OK

A 17-foot bronze of a mother and son walking west, and the museum built behind her.

Fort Gibson Historic Site

Fort Gibson, OK

The 1824 log stockade and stone barracks of the oldest military post in Oklahoma.

U.S. Army Artillery Museum

Lawton, OK

Two centuries of American guns at Fort Sill, from Revolutionary cannon to modern howitzers.

Washita Battlefield National Historic Site

Cheyenne, OK

The Washita River valley where Custer's 7th Cavalry attacked Black Kettle's camp at dawn in 1868.

Chickasaw Cultural Center

Sulphur, OK

A 184-acre campus of the Chickasaw Nation, with a reconstructed traditional village.

Greenwood Rising

Tulsa, OK

The history center at the corner of the district burned in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Cherokee National History Museum

Tahlequah, OK

The 1869 Cherokee National Capitol building, telling the nation's story in its own words.

Blue Whale of Catoosa

Catoosa, OK

An 80-foot concrete whale built in 1972 as an anniversary present, now a Route 66 landmark.

Golden Driller

Tulsa, OK

A 76-foot roughneck in gold, leaning on an oil derrick, since the 1966 International Petroleum Exposition.

Fort Sill National Cemetery

Elgin, OK

Rolling prairie sections opened in 2001 on land transferred from the post.