Matador history on its way to famous Oklahoma City museum

MOTLEY MUSEUM board president Judy Cooper was on hand in Matador April 22 to deliver items for the collection of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma, that will permanently represent Motley County’s rich role in the history of cattle raising, cowboying and rodeoing. | COURTESY PHOTO
MOTLEY MUSEUM board president Judy Cooper was on hand in Matador April 22 to deliver items for the collection of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma, that will permanently represent Motley County’s rich role in the history of cattle raising, cowboying and rodeoing. | COURTESY PHOTO

The Motley County Museum hosted curator Michael Grauer from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Okla., on April 22 to receive three key collections from Matador history— those of Mary Ellen “Dude” Barton, Shannon Davidson and H. H. Schweitzer— for this premier museum’s collections.

Grauer, no stranger to the Panhandle and Rolling Plains, was previously curator at the…