The Home Ranch
Headquarters for Westerners International, known as the Home Ranch, is located in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum on the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas. The Home Ranch moved out its gracious headquarters in Oklahoma City in January 2017 and, during the Spring of 2017, moved into its new space. WI’s new home, like its previous one, is steeped in Western history, lore, literature, and culture. From here at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and from here on campus, we invite you to visit us! The Museum is the largest history museum in Texas, and the university is home to a growing program in Western Studies, and a venue for the Center for the Study of the American West directed by Prof. Alex Hunt.All of us at the new Home Ranch are excited to work with U.S. and International corrals to create lively programs, truly Western activities, scholarship opportunities for study and publishing and – of course -- FUN for all of us who love the American West. Remember, “No Stuffed Shirts Allowed” in our corrals!
 Prof. Bonney MacDonald Chairman of the Board of Directors |
 Delinda King Secretary/Treasurer |
| Bonney MacDonald is Chairman of the Board of Directors for Westerners International at the Home Ranch in Canyon, Texas. She is also a Professor of English with research and teaching interests in the American West. She lives part-time in Texas, where she works, and part-time in Colorado. She is married to Jay Frost, a third-generation rancher in beautiful southeast Colorado. | Delinda King is the Secretary and Treasurer for the Home Ranch of Westerners. She also works in the Special Collections Department of Cornette Library on the campus of West Texas A & M
University. With her B.A. and Masters Degree, she has focused on the literature, history, and environment of the American West. When not reading or writing on the West, or working at the Home Ranch and the university library, she enjoys experiencing the West by motorcycle. |
 Tim Bowman President |
 Kenneth Pirtle Buckskin Bulletin, Editor |
| Tim Bowman teaches at West Texas A&M University, where he is associate professor and head of the Department of History. His interests include the histories of the North American borderlands, Texas, and the Southern Plains. |
From Levelland, Texas, Ken Pirtle holds BA in Advertising and Design with a minor in photography from Texas Tech, and an MA in Art from West Texas State University. Ken taught at Amarillo College for thirty-three years, also serving there as Chairman of the Visual Arts Department. He retired in 2008 and was named Amarillo College Professor Emeritus in 2018. As a Master Gardener, Ken grows orchids, and maintains a greenhouse and koi pond. Among his other interests are woodworking and making large ceramic tile mosaics as public art. Ken serves on the Board of the Amarillo Botanical Gardens and has served two terms as President. In 2012-14 Ken has also served on the Public Art Selection Committee for Texas Tech University. His wife of fifty-one years, Tarrie Sue Straube Pirtle, teaches Chemistry at Ascension Academy in Amarillo. They have two grown children and four grandchildren; they remain active in the community and in Polk Street Methodist Church. |
 Michael Grauer McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture/Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum |
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Bonney riding Rioja |
Palo Duro Canyon |
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