The Bronze Wrangler is an award presented annually by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with more than 28,000 Western and American Indian art works and artifacts. The facility also has the world's most extensive collection of American rodeo, photographs, barbed wire, saddlery, and early rodeo trophies...

 to honor the top works in Western

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 music

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, film

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, television

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 and literature

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The awards were first presented in 1961. The Wrangler is a bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback, and is designed by artist John Free.

The awards program also recognizes inductees into the prestigious Hall of Great Westerners and the Hall of Great Western Performers as well as the recipient of the Chester A. Reynolds Memorial Award, named in honor of the Museum’s founder.

Film and Television

• Theatrical Motion Picture
• Television Feature Film
• Factual Narrative
• Factual Television Program (awarded from 1961 until 1989)
• Fictional Television Drama
• Western Documentary

Literary

• Art Books
• Folklore Books
• Juvenile Books
• Magazine Article
• News Featurette
• Nonfiction Book
• Outstanding Photography Book
• Poetry Book
• Short Stories
• Western Novel

Music

• Music
• Outstanding Original Western Composition
• Outstanding Traditional Western Album

External links

• Official Website
• Western Heritage Awards at the Internet Movie Database
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