Educational
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Day of the Cowboy
Pioneer Bluffs: Flint Hills Ranching Heritage Center 695 Kansas Highway 177, Matfield Green, KS, KS, United StatesHonoring Flint Hills cowhands of yesterday and today. Cowboy history, in photos, video, and story, by Greg Hoots, author and historian Branding—Leave your family brand at Pioneer Bluffs! Bring your branding iron, or come watch branding demonstrated (on wood). Roping demonstration—watch trick roping, then give it a try! Voices of the Tallgrass Prairie—we’ll record tales […]
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Preserving YOUR family history
The Granary at Pioneer Bluffs 695 Kansas Highway 177, Matfield Green, KS, United StatesPreserve your family history at a digitization day. Bring your photos and letters (up to 15) to be scanned by students with the Chapman Center for Rural Studies at Kansas State University. You will leave with your original documents and a thumb drive with the digital files.
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Prairie Talk: History of the Flint Hills
Pioneer Bluffs Ranch Main Barn 695 Kansas Highway 177, Matfield Green, KS, United StatesMike Holder, Kansas State University Extension Agent (retired), begins at the beginning of the Flint Hills, “why it is what it is,” says Holder. He will discuss formation of the Flint Hills, the Native American presence, and the influence of ranching. Holder is known as a good storyteller and draws on 47 years with the […]
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Flint Hills Festival
Pioneer Bluffs will be at the Flint Hills Festival at Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan.
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Emil Redmon’s Cow: Wisdom Keepers
Pioneer Bluffs Ranch Main Barn 695 Kansas Highway 177, Matfield Green, KS, United StatesJoin us at Pioneer Bluffs on April 28th to hear more stories from Emil Redmon’s Cow! Mark Feiden – photographer, videographer, and creator of Emil Redmon’s Cow - returns to share his latest round of interviews.
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The Journey to Kyrgyzstan
Pioneer Bluffs Ranch Main Barn 695 Kansas Highway 177, Matfield Green, KS, United StatesWhat did Josh and Jim Hoy see and learn in the high Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan? The story will be told in a Prairie Talk at a historic ranch near Matfield Green at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, July 6. In 2017, the Hoys toured the country extensively, riding hundreds of miles of mountains with nomadic […]
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Ice Cream Social & Day of the Cowboy: “What Makes a Good Cowhorse”
Pioneer Bluffs Ranch Main Barn 695 Kansas Highway 177, Matfield Green, KS, United StatesJoin us for our annual Ice Cream Social and special Day of the Cowboy program on the cowhorse, who plays such a big part in Flint Hills ranching. We’ll gather at 6:30 p.m. for our old-time Ice Cream Social plus homemade cobbler, and time to visit and look around the barn and grounds. Around 7:00 […]
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Prairie Talk: The Scribner Ranch
Pioneer Bluffs Ranch Main Barn 695 Kansas Highway 177, Matfield Green, KS, United StatesRanching has been a way of life for several generations of the Scribner family. Their ranching operation currently involves 3 brothers along with some of their children. They own a cow-calf operation and run yearlings in the Flint Hills of Northeastern Butler County. To sharpen their cattle handling skills, they are often seen participating in […]