The Log Cabin

Built in 1910 from cedar logs gathered along Black Bear Creek, this log cabin was designed as a symbol of Americana that looked back to the time of Abraham Lincoln. It featured an outdoor summer kitchen on the southwest corner and an interior stone fireplace. Although Pawnee Bill told visitors that he had lived in it when he was first starting the ranch, he had not. Instead, the cabin served as a movie prop, an educational tool, and a clubhouse. Pawnee Bill used it to give friends and associates from the East a "real western experience," and oral histories say that he sent ranch cowboys to "kidnap" guests from incoming trains and hold them in the cabin as part of that experience.

Pawnee, Oklahoma · United States