2024-2025
Great Expectations Model School Certification
19th year award
2024
Chickasaw Nation Toksali Smart “Good Friend – Inkana Chokma” Award
2023-2024
Great Expectations Model School Certification
18th year award
2023
True West Magazine Top Art Museums of the West 2023
2022-2023
Great Expectations Model School Certification
17th year award
2021-2022
Great Expectations Model School Certification
16th year award
2020-2021
Great Expectations Model School Certification
15th year award
2019-2020
Great Expectations Model School Certification
14th year award
2019
True West Magazine Top Western Museums of the West 2019
2019
Oklahoma Redbud Outstanding Attraction – (OK Travel Industry Association)- Merit Award for the year 2018
2019
Great Expectations Model School Certification
13th year award
2019
#1 Tourist Destination and Best Museum
The Duncan Banner Readers’ Choice Awards
2018
Best Heritage Attraction
The Official Best of Oklahoma 2018!
2018
Great Expectations Model School Certification
12th year award
2018
Department of The Army – Certificate of Appreciation (for support of the Fort Sill Commercial Sponsorship Program for Fiscal Year 2018)
2018 - May 15
The Oklahoma Travel Industry Association (OTIA) awarded the Chisholm Trail 150th Partnership with three of the state’s highest honors given in the Oklahoma tourism industry during the RedBud Awards Ceremony. The partnership, comprised of the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center in Duncan, Visit Enid and the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid, and the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS), won the RedBud Award for Outstanding Media Coverage and earned Merit Awards (category runner-up) for Best Partnership and Best Tri-Fold or Single Sheet Brochure or Publication.
2018
The Duncan Banner Readers’ Choice awards for #1 Tourist Destination and Best Museum
2017
Department of The Army – Certificate of Appreciation (for support of the Fort Sill Commercial Sponsorship Program for Fiscal Year 2017)
2017
Oklahoma Redbud Outstanding Attraction – (OK Travel Industry Association)
2017
Great Expectations Model School Certification
11th year Award
2017
The Duncan Banner Readers’ Choice awards for #1 Tourist Destination and Best Museum
2016
True West Magazine “Top Ten Western Museum” Award
2016
Texoma Gives – “Best Marketing” Second Place
2016
Great Expectations Model School Certification
10th Year Award
2016
National Day of the Cowboy’s “Cowboy Keeper” Award
2016
Oklahoma Redbud Merit Award (OK Travel Industry Association) Outstanding Attraction
2016
Oklahoma Redbud Merit Award (OK Travel Industry Association) Outstanding New Event for Campfires, Cattle & Cowboys Gathering (a cowboy poetry festival)
2016
The Duncan Banner Readers’ Choice awards for #1 Tourist Destination and Best Museum
2015
“Great Expectations Model School” certification. Only non-profit to hold this title.
2015
The Duncan Banner Readers’ Choice Award for Best Museum and for Best Tourist Destination
2014
“Great Expectations Model School” certification. Only non-profit to hold this title. Consecutively for eight years.
2014
“Outstanding Attraction” Oklahoma Redbud Awards, presented by Oklahoma Travel Industry Association/Chickasaw Country.
2014
“Black Cowboys on the Chisholm Trail” wins RedBud Merit Award for Outstanding Temporary Exhibit for 2013 for the state of Oklahoma
2014
“On the Chisholm Trail Bronze” named as a top 20, in “20 Objects that Shape Oklahoma” in the August edition of Oklahoma Magazine
2014
The Duncan Banner Readers’ Choice Award for Best Museum and for Best Tourist Destination
2013
Oklahoma Museums Association Exhibit & Publication award winner for 2013 programming “Writing in Response to Art”
2013
Oklahoma Arts & Humanities Non-Profit of the Year Excellence Awards/Chesapeake Energy Corporation Award
2013
“Great Expectations Model School” certification
2012
Oklahoma Museum Association Certificate of Recognition to board member Mike Smith for his volunteer services
2012
Redbud Award for “Outstanding Temporary Exhibit” featuring artist Robby McMurtry
2012
Redbud Merit Award for “Outstanding New Event” – the Western Fall Fest
2012
“Favorite Museum” in the Best of Chickasaw Country
2012
“Great Expectations Model School” certification
2011
“Great Expectations Model School” certification
2011
“Outstanding Publication” awarded by Oklahoma Museums Association for the “Creative Writing” publication featuring the writings of Duncan Middle School sixth-grade students
2011
Outstanding Contribution to Wild West History awarded by Wild West History Association
2010
“Great Expectations Model School” certification
2010
“Outstanding Interpretive Exhibit” -‘Sounds of the Trail’ awarded by Oklahoma Museums Association
2010
“Outstanding Website” – awarded by Oklahoma Museums Association
2009
“Great Expectations Model School” certification
2009
Redbud Award for “Outstanding Attraction” in Oklahoma at the Governor’s Conference on Tourism held in Tulsa, Oklahoma
2009
“Tourism Achievement of the Year Award” southwest Oklahoma’s Great Plains Country
2009
2009 Festivals & Events Association of Oklahoma selected Cova Williams, Museum Coordinator as the “Event Professional of the Year”
2009
“One of Top Ten Western Museums” – True West Magazine
2009
“Outstanding Promotional Piece,” Chisholm Trail Heritage Centers’s media kit/flash drive awarded by Oklahoma Museums Association
2009
“Outstanding Newsletter – Prairie Wind”, awarded by Oklahoma Museums Association
2008
Outstanding Promotional Piece – Making History with the Arts DVD awarded by Oklahoma Museums Association
2008
“Great Expectations Model School” certification
2007
“Great Expectations Model School” certification
2006
“Outstanding Outreach or Education Program – Making History with the Arts, awarded by Oklahoma Museums Association
2005
“American Cowboy Culture Award” for Western Museums from the National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas
2005
“Outstanding local Historical Society/Museum in the State of Oklahoma,” awarded by The Oklahoma Historical Society
2003
Redbud Merit Award Winner – “Outstanding New Event for Population Less than 40,000″ – Chisholm Trail Stampede Committee
2003
Redbud Award for “Outstanding Attraction Population less than 40,000″ – Chisholm Trail Heritage Center & On the Chisholm Trail Association Board of Directors
2003
“Community Improvement Award” – Chisholm Trail Heritage Center from Duncan Chamber of Commerce and Industry
1999
“Stuart Indian Territory Award” for Organizations Preserving Oklahoma History – presented to On the Chisholm Trail Association
1998
TOM MCCASLAND “In appreciation for your gift to the world the larger than life bronze, ON THE CHISHOLM TRAIL” from Dr. Walter Bishop, Historian Old Trail Drivers Association of Texas – Pioneer Museum, San Antonio, Texas
