Raynors HCA 2019-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2019
Rare “Miss Anna Locke Hamilton” group, features a letter from E.N. Hamilton on Anna Locke Hamilton letterhead that titles her “FAMOUS EQUESTRIENNE” with her horse “Gen. Pershing”, from Mexico, Missiouri, January 19, 1929, addressed to Joseph C. Miller in Oklahoma speaking of an application for her daughter to perform in his show, with four sepia photographs of her peformance. Fine condition. The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch was a 110,000-acre cattle ranch in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma before statehood. Located near modern-day Ponca City, it was founded by Colonel George Washington Miller, a veteran of the Confederate Army, in 1893. The 101 Ranch was the birthplace of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show and one of the early focal points of the oil rush in northeastern Oklahoma. It was the largest diversified farm and ranch in America at the time. Bill Pickett's grave and the White Eagle Monument are located on the ranch grounds. The location of the former working cattle ranch was subdivided and all of its buildings destroyed. An 82-acre area of the ranch is a National Historic Landmark. In 2003, the ranch was inducted into the Texas Trail of Fame. In 1903, when Colonel George Miller died, his three sons, Joseph, George Jr., and Zack took over operation of the 110,000 acre ranch. By 1932 most of the land was owned by the Miller family. They leased other land from the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Indians in Kay, Noble, Osage and Pawnee Counties. The ranch remained in the family for almost 60 years.
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