Today we travelled 170 miles round trip to see several attractions. We first got a picture of these 3 interestingly labeled water tanks. Then we visited the Tom Mix Museum in Dewey. In February we had seen where he was killed in a 1940 car accident in AZ. Mix's third of five wives was from Dewey, he was the town marshal and worked on a local cattle ranch before his movie career. We enjoyed the museum and watched one of his 1930's first talkies with Mickey Rooney when he was a young boy. We visited a replica of the Nellie Johnstone #1 oil well site, the first commercial oil well in OK. The name came from a young Indian girl who owned the land. While driving in Bartlesville we noticed a strange building that turned out to be Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower. Never heard of it but it's a unique 1956 19 story building. We then visited the Phillips Petroleum Museum, it was quite commercial. The company almost didn't exist, they barely had funding for 3 wells that were duds and somehow did a fourth well and it was the first of 80 successful oil wells. If you want to know how "66" was added to the company name drop me an email and I'll tell you! On the way home we visited the home with the bowling ball fence and yard. If you think MI has some bad gravel roads you should drive on Oklahoma's. Hey Devyn......I finally had a baconator today!!!!! Doubt I'll have another.
