Cowboy Hill is an Oklahoma Historic Site located on a bluff overlooking the Salt Fork of the Arkansas river in
Kay County, Oklahoma. Zack Miller, owner of the famed
101 Ranch, gave the land to the ''Cherokee Strip Cowpunchers Association'' in 1930 for use as long as they needed it. In 1959, Zack Miller deeded Cowboy Hill to the
Oklahoma Historical Society. Zack Miller and Jack Webb, one of the famous trick-shooters with the
101 Ranch Wild West Show
The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch was a 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.Hoy, JimCatt ...
, are buried in the Cowboy Hill Cemetery located on the site.
The Cherokee Strip Cowpunchers Association, organized in 1920, was open to those who had worked as cowboys on the ranches in the
Cherokee Strip
The Cherokee Outlet, or Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma in the United States. It was a 60-mile-wide (97 km) parcel of land south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border between 96 and 100°W. The Cherokee Outlet wa ...
before 1893, the year the Strip was open for settlement. The association numbered about 400 members near the beginning. The wives of the members were eligible to join the Ladies Auxiliary. Joe Miller was elected perpetual president in 1921. The association's official publication, the ''101 Magazine'', was ''"dedicated to old-timers and to young people—and to those who love the Great Southwest and the Greater Outdoors."''
Hills of Oklahoma
Historic sites in Oklahoma
Landforms of Kay County, Oklahoma
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