Natalie (29) and Hadley (25) are siblings who grew up on a cattle ranch just North of Pawnee, Oklahoma. Growing up, they both attended Pawnee High School where they played sports and were involved in many other school and church activities.
After high school, Natalie attended two years at Southwestern Oklahoma State University and was a member of the collegiate women’s golf team. She transferred to Oklahoma State University where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in 2018 majoring in Accounting. She worked in public accounting for four years before taking a job for a financial consulting firm where she worked as an account executive. In August of 2020, she also founded her online women’s clothing boutique, May Lillie Boutique, and one year later resigned from the consulting firm to pursue the boutique full time. One week after resignation, she approached Jo and Pam Ferguson about a small building for her potential storefront, which ultimately lead to purchasing the wholesale business entirely. Natalie’s husband, Cole Patterson, is a professional cowboy and two-time and reigning PRCA Steer Roping World Champion. They welcomed their first baby, Pruitt Dee Patterson, in June of 2023.
Just three years after his sister, Hadley also made the trek to Stillwater, Oklahoma to attend Oklahoma State University where he was a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree double majoring in Marketing and Management in 2021. Along with working full-time at Pawnee Bill’s, Hadley carries on the family tradition of raising cattle.
On March 1, 2022, we became the new owners of Pawnee Bill’s Indian Trading Post, now named “Pawnee Bill’s Wholesale Company.” Pawnee Bill’s has been family owned and operated for nearly ninety years, and although we are not related to the previous owners, we plan to carry on the legacy and integrity of the company. We have met many of you over the phone, through email, or at the Gatlinburg show, and we look forward to working with each of you for many years to come.
We have done our best to keep the style of items that Pawnee Bill’s has been known for over the last nine decades, and are actively seeking new products to update the catalog. We hope that you find more and more items to add to your stores. Thank you to all of the customers that we have worked with thus far!