Talk:Woolaroc

Cost of the Pioneer Woman Miniatures
There is disagreement over the cost of each of the twelve Pioneer Woman Miniatures. Louise Abercrombie wrote an article in the "Ponca City News" citing the cost for each miniature as $10,000.

75.88.236.50 has provided a citation from a book about sculptor Mahonri Young saying that the commission paid each sculptor was $2,000. Unfortunately, there is no way to authoritatively settle the matter without doing further research and I will not be in Ponca city for several weeks and do not have access to the original reference materials. For the moment, I have modified the paragraph to reflect the fact that there are two citations and they are in conflict.


 * In 1928, E. W. Marland, founder of Marland Oil Company (later to become Conoco) and at that time one of the wealthiest men in the world, commissioned twelve miniature 3-foot sculptures that were submitted by US and international sculptors as models for the Pioneer Woman statue. The commision that Marland paid each sculptor has been variously cited as $10,000 and as $2,000 for each submission. The miniatures traveled to twelve cities where they were viewed by 750,000 people who cast votes for their favorite.

Reservoirhill (talk) 22:54, 29 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I am sorry that I had not signed in when I made the $2,000 edit. I have looked it up in a categlog that I picked up in Woolaric and in biographies on Fraser and De Lue (who did much of the work on the monument as Baker's assistant) as well as Jo Davidson's auto biography - and none mentions the amount.  I have always remembered $2,000 - but who knows from where?  Perhaps research by divine inspiration?  Anyway, between the two of us I'll bet we can agree on something - for example, that it is okay as is . ....... for now.  Carptrash (talk) 01:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I sent an email to the "Ponca City News" on the subject and they told me they are going research their archives so we should have an authoritative answer pretty soon.


 * Best Regards,


 * Reservoirhill (talk) 04:40, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Well these folks, who should know, also use the $10,000 figure, so. . . . it is begining to look. . ............ No, it can't be !!! Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 16:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * While the article is very interesting, one could easily re-title it Pioneer Woman Statues. The content is good, but very lopsided. RatOmeter2 (talk) 17:01, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Well there should be an article on the Pioneer Woman Statue on Ponca City, and I certau=inly could write it, but because of conflicts that I have had with the wiki copyright SWAT team - well I won't do it. I'd be tempted to use my pictures and they'd be tempted (all of us would give in to our temptations) to remove them, and I'd feel bad and they'd feel smug.  Thanks, but no thanks.  Carptrash (talk) 20:14, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps a link to my blog would suffice? Carptrash (talk) 20:16, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Article classification
This article has been greatly expanded and improved since it was first classified. It now meets the requirements for C classification. I have made this change for the Oklahoma project. Bruin2 (talk) 15:12, 11 June 2013 (UTC)


 * The C classification mentioned above has been changed without explanation in the History. I have restored this classification after further expanding the text. Bruin2 (talk) 22:28, 3 February 2018 (UTC)