The late Anthony Quinn also will be honored at the April 12 event.
Oscar nominee and C&I cover star Graham Greene (pictured above) and Grammy Award-winning Country Music Hall of Famers Brooks & Dunn are among the recipients and inductees who will be honored April 12 during the 64th annual Western Heritage Awards ceremony.
Award-winning actor Anthony Quinn and beloved western storyteller Baxter Black will be saluted posthumously during the event, which will be held at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
The Western Heritage Awards serve as the induction ceremony for the museum’s Hall of Great Westerners and Hall of Great Western Performers, as well as the presentation ceremony for the Lifetime Achievement Award (which will go to Brooks & Dunn) and the Chester A. Reynolds Award, named after the museum’s founder.

“We are thrilled to announce the exceptional inductees for this year’s Western Heritage Awards,” said Pat Fitzgerald, President and CEO of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. “Each individual being inducted embodies the spirit of the American West in their own unique way, contributing to its rich tapestry of culture and history. We’re excited to celebrate and honor their vast talent and contributions for generations to come.”
The Western Heritage Awards also honor every year individuals who have made significant contributions to Western heritage through creative works in literature, music, television and film. Individuals who will be honored for their creative achievements from 2024 will announced next month, along with ticketing information for seminars and events that will be open to the public during the Western Heritage Awards weekend celebration.

Baxter Black — novelist, public speaker, radio and TV host, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, and frequent guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson — will be inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners, along with Louise S. O’Connor, a rancher, photographer and author who has spent the last 40 years interviewing, photographing and writing about the people of the ranching culture of her native Texas Coastal Bend.

Anthony Quinn, who appeared in such western movies as Last Train to Gun Hill, The Ox-Bow Incident, Viva Zapata! (for which he won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor) and Guns for San Sebastian, will join Graham Greene as an inductee into the Hall of Great Western Performers. This year’s Chester A. Reynolds Award will go to fourth-generation cattle rancher and renowned land and wildlife conservationist Warner Glenn.
Honorees and inductees will each receive a Wrangler, a bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback created by the late Oklahoma artist and 2017 Hall of Great Westerners inductee Harold T. Holden.