In 1925, oil industrialist Frank Phillips established a ranch in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, that would serve as his home and a repository for his many interests, including airplanes. Four years after building the ranch, Phillips added a small stone pavilion overlooking his lodge that would house an airplane he sponsored in a race from California to Hawaii. As time went on the open-air stone pavilion was added to, including walls and areas for guns, Native American relics and art. Today, the Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is one of the gems of Western art and a monument to Phillips, one of the early prominent collectors of artists such as William R. Leigh, Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, Frank Tenney Johnson, Oscar E. Berninghaus and Joseph Henry Sharp.
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