A sellout crowd of local folks in party clothes and a host of entertainers and celebrities energized the 49th annual Western Heritage Awards on Saturday at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. More than 1,000 people attended the black-tie banquet at the museum, 1700 NE 63. Actor Rex Linn, who grew up in Oklahoma City and is a regular on the television series "CSI-Miami,” reprised his role as emcee. Actors Tom Selleck and the late Charlton Heston were inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers, an honor reserved for those who have made significant contributions in the perpetuation of traditional values of the American West through motion pictures, film or theater. Western musician and historian Don Edwards was presented with the Chester A. Reynolds Memorial Award, named for the museum’s founder and recognizing an individual whose body of work perpetuates the ideals, history and heritage of the American West. For 50 years Edwards has written and performed songs that celebrate traditional cowboy music. Also honored were Texas rancher and photographer Bob Moorhouse and the late Gordon William Lillie, better known as the Wild West performer "Pawnee Bill.” Both were inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners...moreMama bear will be happy with me again.
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