Last spring, Hoyt resident Marlene Putnam decided the fading mural on the barn door at her quarter horse ranch needed to be replaced. The man who had done the mural had died, so she began searching for another artist who could design and create a large-scaled painting of that nature. Cynthia Martin came to mind. "I saw her silo work in a magazine," Putnam, who owns Putnam Quarter Horse Ranch with her husband, Duane, said. Martin, of Onaga, is known for the mural she painted in the mid-1990s on a 30-foot silo at the Western Resources Oregon Trail Nature Park near Belvue. The mural is a combination of three scenes: settlers traveling the Oregon Trail, Plains Indians on a bison hunt and Kansas wildlife. Putnam contacted Martin and commissioned the artist to paint the door of the 110-year-old barn. "It cost me a horse to get the painting," Putnam said...
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