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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune TRAVEL Sunday, January 24, 1999 Bed, Beef & Breakfast at Comfortable Oklahoma Inn BY JEAN SIMMONS KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE RED ROCK,Okla. — You,too, can be a Homesteader, albeit a modern version. Just paya visit to The Homestead Bed & Breakfast at GT Ranch. With a bit of imagination, you canenvision the land runof Sept. IF YOU GO Room, which carries mementos from Glenda’s mother’s teaching days, including a schoolhousepatterned quilt, and a bed made from old flooring. Both upstairs rooms aresuites. The Homestead, (580) 725-3400 or 1-888-8828091; www.bbonline.com/ok- /homestead. The inn is about 285 miles from Dallas. Getting There: The Homestead B&Bis three miles east of Single rates are $55 to $90, or honeymoonsuite, holds a king: $10 more for double occupan- 1-35 at Exit 203. Address: Route 1, Box 32, Red Rock, Okla. 74651; (580) 725-3466, size cannonball bed and hand- cy; no smoking, children or pieced quilts. The sitting room provides a nice setting for a can- pets, but horses are welcome. 16, 1893, when the nearby Chero- dlelight dinner. Therealso is a Jacuzzi tub. (You can’t tell me the Jacuzzi is not new.) The so-called Bunkhouse includes a double bed anda single kee Strip was opened, bringing thousands of would-besettlers to northern Oklahoma. And you, too, may find the wind come sweeping down theplains. Theranchliesjusteast of Interstate 35 and south of PoncaCity. GT stands for Good Times and Great Taste. Your lodging will be no crude log cabin but rather a beautifully The SETS is Bythe Time I Get to. . hand-crafted structure of handdebarked yellow-pine logs, built between May 1995 and May 1996 specifically for the comfort of The capitol in this warm and friendlycity is undergoing a $1.6 million restoration in preparation for its centennial in 2001. But where is the building found? Still clueless? A solid clue is found in the map, below. While you are at it, name the state. (See answers,H-8.) overnight guests. The logs were obtained in southeastern Oklahoma, milled in Quinton. It's no surprise that cattle, not bison, roam the grasslands and wheatfields that surround the B&B. Thesurpriseis that the cattle are Texas longhorns. Andthat they are served as steaks for dinner, by reservation only. OK, let's say this is a place to have yoursteak andeat it, too. Youcan request a thick T-bone or rib-eye for $20 ora sirloin at $15, all cut from low-cholesterol beef raised on the ranch and fed only natural ingredients. The ‘Mapcourtesy theTM. Gousha Co, Used bypermission meat also can be bought by the poundfortake-out. Innkeeper Glenda Riddle preparesthe feast in the B&B's state- WWW.COSMOPOLITANTOURS.COM inspected, health-approved com- mercial kitchen. She also does chicken-fried steak with salad at $12 each for groups. The included country breakfast may bring a mean waffle madeon an old waf- Homestead are the mattresses fle iron and accompanied by won- and box springs and two blue leather chairs,” says the innkeeper, as shetells about the antique oak flooring in the Great Room, an old mapof Indian Territory, the stained-glass window, cowhide rugs and throws, and other derful butter-flavored, pecan-laden maple syrup. Glenda’s home economics degree has served her — andthe public — well. (Riddle also does good worksas a counselor with the Edwin Fair Mental Health Center in Ponca City and as a foster parentofchildren from dysfunctional fam- ilies.) Arriving guests enter what is actually the rear of the log house through an informal dining room, which also contains a small gift shop containing only Oklahoma- made items — candles, stained glass angels and ceramics and the like, along with jams, jellies, soaps and bath salts made by the innkeeper. 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