The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch was never just a cattle operation. At its height, the sprawling northern Oklahoma enterprise combined livestock, wheat, corn, orchards, dairies, food processing, saddle making, agricultural experimentation, entertainment and eventually oil. Then the Millers turned part of that working ranch into a show that carried an image of Oklahoma around the world. In this episode of Red Dirt and Round Bales, Dave Deken traces the rise of the 101 Ranch and its famous Wild West show. The 1905 exhibition near Bliss featured ranch hands, Native performers, Lucille Mulhall, Bill Pickett and Geronimo. Pickett’s bulldogging helped shape the rodeo event now known as steer wrestling, while the show later traveled throughout the United States and abroad. E.W. Marland’s arrival tied the property to northern Oklahoma’s petroleum story. Yet the enormous operation unraveled rapidly after deaths in the Miller family, financial problems and changing entertainment tastes. What remains is a powerful reminder that Oklahoma agriculture has sometimes been business, science, spectacle and mythology all at once.