These two attractions to Pawhuska, the Native-centered Killers of the Flower Moon and the cowboy-centered Pioneer Woman, tell two very different stories about the same place. The cowboy-Indian dichotomy runs deep in this wild west, frontier town.

Louder Than the Food Network: Pawhuska, Ree Drummond and the vacuum of personality.

My mother warned me about food service but she sent the wrong message. She told me it was gross, which I took to mean lowly, but what she should have said was: It’s fun and it pays well and you might find it hard to leave.

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