74 SMOKE SIGNALS • NOVEMBER 2021 NOVEMBER 2021 • SMOKE SIGNALS 75 Announcing the first of POCI’s 2022 Convention Bus Tours: Celebrating “The Pioneer Woman” of Pawhuska, Oklahoma The Indian Nations Chapter is ready to welcome you to the 50th anniversary of POCI’s International Convention. This milestone event will take place in Catoosa, Oklahoma, near Tulsa and adjacent to Interstate 44, from July 12-16, 2022. month we’re high- lighting the first of our planned 2022 POCI Convention tours: a bus trip to Pawhuska, Oklahoma! Ree Drummond, popularly known as “The Pioneer Woman,” has brought this town to promi- nence with success from her tele- vision show, cookbooks, magazine, and The Mercantile complex, located in the heart of downtown. Much of the downtown area has been restored to cater to the large influx of visitors with restaurants and many other attractions. Ree Drummond was born on January 6, 1969 in Bartlesville, Okla- homa, as Anne Marie Smith (“Ree” was her childhood nickname). After graduating high school in 1987, Drummond moved to Los Angeles where she attended the University of Southern Califor- nia, majoring in gerontology with additional studies in journalism. After graduation, she planned on attending law school in Chicago but in the meantime met Ladd Drummond at a bar in Bartlesville. Ladd is a fifth-generation rancher from Pawhuska, a small northeast- ern Oklahoma community located about an hour from her birthplace in Bartlesville. Several years later they married and settled on the Ladd family’s 433,000 acre ranch. Their family is one of the largest private land own- ers in the United States. When Ree’s friends heard she was marrying a cattle rancher, they started calling her “pioneer woman” as a joke. Ree obviously liked it and has since used it to her advantage. The Pioneer Woman — the busi- ness which she launched in 2006 — includes a blog in which she shares what family life was like living on an Oklahoma ranch. Soon after, she began posting recipes that were accompanied by sophisticated food photography. After penning a few of books that highlighted her per- sonal life and a love for food, her millions of loyal readers followed her to the Food Network in 2011 when she launched her successful The Pioneer Woman television series. She has written about her real-life love story in her blogs. In 2011, all the stories were compiled in the book From Black Heels to Trac- tor Wheels. She has authored many other books, including cookbooks and children’s books. Her best seller is The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier — 112 Fantastic Favor- This 50th 1972 2022 A N N I V E R S A R Y C O N V E N T I O N The Pioneer Woman Mercantile, Bakery, Deli & General Store, locat- ed in downtown Pawhuska, Oklaho- ma. Photo by Tim Dye. by David Dorman
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74 SMOKE SIGNALS • NOVEMBER 2021 NOVEMBER 2021 • SMOKE SIGNALS 75
Announcing the first of POCI’s 2022 Convention Bus Tours: Celebrating “The Pioneer Woman”
of Pawhuska, Oklahoma
The Indian Nations Chapter is ready to welcome you to the 50th anniversary of POCI’s International Convention. This milestone
event will take place in Catoosa, Oklahoma, near Tulsa and adjacent to Interstate 44, from July 12-16, 2022.
month we’re high-lighting the first of our planned 2022
POCI Convention tours: a bus trip to Pawhuska, Oklahoma!
Ree Drummond, popularly known as “The Pioneer Woman,” has brought this town to promi-nence with success from her tele-vision show, cookbooks, magazine, and The Mercantile complex, located in the heart of downtown. Much of the downtown area has been restored to cater to the large influx of visitors with restaurants and many other attractions.
Ree Drummond was born on January 6, 1969 in Bartlesville, Okla-homa, as Anne Marie Smith (“Ree” was her childhood nickname).
After graduating high school in 1987, Drummond moved to Los Angeles where she attended the University of Southern Califor-nia, majoring in gerontology with
additional studies in journalism. After graduation, she planned on attending law school in Chicago but in the meantime met Ladd Drummond at a bar in Bartlesville. Ladd is a fifth-generation rancher from Pawhuska, a small northeast-ern Oklahoma community located about an hour from her birthplace in Bartlesville.
Several years later they married and settled on the Ladd family’s 433,000 acre ranch. Their family is one of the largest private land own-ers in the United States. When Ree’s friends heard she was marrying a cattle rancher, they started calling her “pioneer woman” as a joke. Ree obviously liked it and has since used it to her advantage.
The Pioneer Woman — the busi-ness which she launched in 2006 —
includes a blog in which she shares what family life was like living on an Oklahoma ranch. Soon after, she began posting recipes that were accompanied by sophisticated food photography. After penning a few of books that highlighted her per-sonal life and a love for food, her millions of loyal readers followed her to the Food Network in 2011 when she launched her successful The Pioneer Woman television series.
She has written about her real-life love story in her blogs. In 2011, all the stories were compiled in the book From Black Heels to Trac-tor Wheels. She has authored many other books, including cookbooks and children’s books. Her best seller is The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier — 112 Fantastic Favor-
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The Pioneer Woman Mercantile, Bakery, Deli & General Store, locat-ed in downtown Pawhuska, Oklaho-
ma. Photo by Tim Dye.
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The Drummonds have five children. Their oldest is Alex who just this year married her college boyfriend, Mauricio Scott. Paige is enrolled in college. Bryce is a quar-terback for his high school’s football team. The youngest, Todd, is also in high school. The Drummonds have also welcomed a foster child, Jamar.
The Drummonds operate a restaurant, general store and bakery known as The Mercantile, The Pio-neer Woman Boarding House, and a pizzeria and ice cream shop — all in the downtown area.
Ladd and Ree have been mar-ried 25 years and she has various cooking- and serving-related prod-ucts at WalMart along with a line of frozen food.
NEW, BIG-BUDGET FILM COMES TO PAWHUSKA!
Earlier this year, filming commenced in Pawhuska for the upcoming movie Killers of the Flower Moon starring Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, John Lithgow and Brendan Fraser. The 200-million-plus dollar budgeted movie, being directed by Martin Scorsese, reveals the true 1920s-era story of local Osage Indians who, because of the vast oil fields that had been discovered underneath their lands, became the wealthiest people (per capita) in the world. The story details the deadly conflict over that tremendous wealth and the subsequent investigations by the fledgling Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The film is likely to have a December 2021 release date on Apple TV+. Meanwhile, we recommend reading the similar-ly titled book by David Grann. It is truly riveting!
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Inside The Pioneer Woman Mercantile, Bakery, Deli & General Store.
Photo by Tim Dye.
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