On a spring Friday morning in Oklahoma City, Tulsa Cowboy Artist Mikel Donahue and his wife, Christie, sit sipping coffee in a local coffee shop talking about quarter horses. One of their fillies, still trying to find her legs, just raced at Remington Park the night before, and the Donahues have high hopes for her.
These days, raising quarter horses on their small ranch outside of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, is a passion for the couple, but for Donahue himself, ranching has always been a part of his life in one way or another.
Donahue was born and raised in Tulsa, and one of his grandfathers owned a ranch and raised cattle in North Central Oklahoma. His other grandfather was a painter who took the young man
