It’s paying off for her and, town leaders hope, Pawhuska.Ībout 150 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, Pawhuska has one stoplight that blinks red in four directions. “If I had sat down and tried to plan an empire there’s no way, no way any of this would have happened.” I live in the country,’ ” Ree Drummond said. “It was, kind of just, love that got me out here, and then after we got married I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, what have I done?’ You know, ‘Where am I, and this is real. The cowboy, Ladd Drummond, is part of a prominent family that operates a more than 400,000-acre cattle ranch in Osage County, about 7 miles west of Pawhuska, population about 3,900. Her plans took a detour when she stopped for a visit in Bartlesville where she joined some friends at a bar and met “a cowboy wearing Wranglers.” She went on to marry him in 1996, and never made it to the Windy City. She left for school at the University of Southern California and, a few years after graduating, planned to move closer to home, to Chicago. As she puts it, she grew up on the seventh fairway of a golf course, a far cry from the working cattle ranch she now calls home. I’m just a mom and a wife.”ĭrummond grew up the daughter of a surgeon in Bartlesville, a town of about 36,000 people about 20 miles east of Pawhuska. “I’m not a chef, and I’m not an expert at anything. “I think people are drawn to ‘The Pioneer Woman,’ not because I am some fascinating person, but because I present things that a lot of people can relate to,” a self-effacing Drummond said in an interview with the Associated Press at the Mercantile, which she and her husband opened in October. Sony Pictures holds an option for a possible movie on her book “Black Heels to Tractor Wheels,” in which she recounts how she met her husband, who isn’t a smoker but whom she often calls “Marlboro Man.” Recent blog entries covered everything from taking her homeschooled children to see the musical “Hamilton” on Broadway to finally finishing the TV show “Breaking Bad” and a forthcoming cookbook. Her digital and print catalogs are all full of her quips about motherhood and quick-and-easy meals mixed with musings on her late basset hound and comparing her current life in cowgirl boots to one where she used to wear pumps. The magazine is the first of two planned editions released this month and available at the Mercantile and at Walmart, where she also has a signature line of cooking, kitchen and dinnerware. Visitors from all 50 states, Canada, South America and England have come to the Pioneer Woman Mercantile, a store-bakery-restaurant she and her husband opened after starting a popular blog, then writing New York Times best-selling cookbooks and children’s books, hosting a Food Network cooking show and, her most recent venture, the Pioneer Woman Magazine. She never dreamed the journey would send her back to the plains of northeast Oklahoma, to a place with even fewer lights where she’s become known and built a brand as “The Pioneer Woman.” – Growing up in an Oklahoma town she considered too tiny, Ree Drummond sought the bright lights of a city and headed west for Los Angeles.
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