Barry Corbin will be inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's 2018 Western Heritage Awards. [Photo provided by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum]

Barry Corbin keeps a bag packed and ready to go.

"I'm in Texas right now. I'm leaving to go to California on Sunday morning. So, I'm back and forth. … They called me one time on a Tuesday and said, ‘You've gotta be in New Zealand on Thursday,' ” he said on a recent Friday. “I like to work, you know. If I'm sitting at home, I don't do well. ... I want to keep moving. I want to stay ahead of the sheriff, you know.”

The prolific actor — who often plays a sheriff, cowboy or pioneer in the movies and on television — will take a favorite detour next weekend to Oklahoma and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Western Heritage Awards. He will be inducted Saturday night into the Hall of Great Western Performers during the 58th annual awards ceremony.

“It's the biggest honor that I've ever had. I've been nominated for Emmys and various other things, and I've had life achievement awards … but this is one that's really up there with the Academy Award and all those things — and it's more important because it's given to me by my friends," Corbin said in a phone interview. "The people at the hall there, we've been friends for years, and to think that they feel like I deserve this honor is just humbling.”