Wichita ? Thomas Etheredge’s gamble on the Wild West World theme park has also cost him the popular Prairie Rose Chuckwagon Supper club.

Just two months after opening, the $30 million Wild West World closed July 9 and filed for bankruptcy.

Prairie Rose and an adjoining farm, including Thomas and Cheryl Etheredge’s home, and items in the Hopalong Cassidy Cowboy Museum will be auctioned Aug. 24.

“I don’t have any comment about it,” Thomas Etheredge told the Wichita Eagle on Sunday.

Late Friday, the South Central Kansas Economic Development District asked the bankruptcy court for permission to foreclose on Prairie Rose’s land and collateral, which Etheredge pledged a year ago for a $200,000 loan to Wild West World.

“We were kind of always in the dark as to what was involved in this whole bankruptcy,” said Orin Friesen, Prairie Rose’s operations manager.

“I still don’t have any idea. All I know is it’s for sale.”

At its peak, 70,000 people were visiting the supper club and listening to the Prairie Rose Wranglers group. The Etheredges built the supper club on a cow pasture to supplement their struggling cattle farm.

However, attendance had been declining the recent years, and the Etheredges started Wild West World in part because the supper club wasn’t likely to grow.

The Wranglers became so successful that they traveled across the world and performed twice at Carnegie Hall. Friesen said the Wranglers, which include him, Jim Farrell, Stu Stuart and Steve Crawford, will continue to perform.

“We’ve never really tapped into that market aggressively because everything we’ve ever gotten has just fallen in our laps,” Friesen said. “We’re just going to try to get creative here.”

The group performed at the supper club for the last time Saturday night.

“It’s been a great run for us,” Friesen said. “I just wish it was still going.”