About Us

Welcome to Lucille’s Restaurant and Bar located in the old Oklahoma State Bank Building built in 1894.  Feel free to look around at the photos on the walls illustrating the history of Mulhall, and celebrating her most famous citizen, Lucille Mulhall.  Lucille Mulhall was “America’s first cowgirl,”as dubbed by her friend Will Rogers, who used to work and visit the Mulhall Ranch. Will starred with Lucille and Charlie Mulhall in the Mulhall Wild West Show. 

Zach Mulhall, once a candidate for Oklahoma Territorial Governor, started it all.  As the Sante Fe Cattle Agent, Zach became rich before the land run grazing cattle here on Beaver Creek.  Taking advantage of the unique and prodigious grasslands, he would graze cattle coming up from Texas going north to market.  Zach made his homestead here during the land run of 1889.   After the land run, he watched the countryside fill up with “sod busters.” Zach bought their homesteads over the years as their cotton crops failed.  He knew this country with its numerous buffalo wallows, was good for one thing; cattle.  Zach expanded his ranch to over 70,000 acres.

The ranch across the railroad tracks from Lucille’s is where Lucille learned her ranch skills.  Lucille was as skilled as any of the hands, and practiced roping cattle, dogs, cats, coyotes, and rabbits. She was petite, beautiful, and always amazed those who had never seen her manage her outlaw horse, “Governor”.  She competed for purses in the Mulhall Wild West Show, and relieved many a proud but humbled cowboy of his hard earned entry fee. Teddy Roosevelt, visiting the ranch was amazed at her abilities. 

So look around and see the old oak bank teller, now the bar, and the original bank vault.  If you feel a chill it is probably a ghost haunting the old building disturbed by the noise of bluegrass music and laughter. See where bank robbers broke into the doctor’s office upstairs, and drilled down through the ceiling of the old vault.  Appreciate the history of Mulhall, and imagine Will Rogers, and Tom Mix coming in to the old bank to cash their paychecks. 

With all the hatred and war in the world, it is good to get away for a little while and be reminded of the good things about America, and where we came from.  There is the way it is, and the way it ought to be.  Now, like the beginning of the 20th century, we are a nation in transition.  The Wild West Shows captured the nostalgia of the old west, and the free and wild Indians.    A harsh reality howled outside the show ring, with the Spanish-American War, the polio epidemic, and the beginning of World War One.  Not much has changed in the last 100 years.  But just for a little while, try some fried chicken or a steak, and listen to some local music.  Relax and let your mind drift away to the way it ought to be..........