November 19, 2015

Fort Worth Stockyards and Cattle Drive

I'd never even heard of the stockyards before..except for the stinky ones you pass on the freeway. This was a really cool part of town called  Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District.  They opened for business on January 19, 1890, covering 206 acres.  Now it's a tourist attractions with lots of quaint western shops, eating establishments, and a cattle drive of longhorns down the main part of town.

Bull rider.  Well, steer rider anyway.  That's not a black eye, by the way.  Just a shadow.

Us with Tom's sister, Brenda and Carl her husband.

Getting ready for the cattle drive.

The cattle drive moves through town.

The shops were located in a covered, open-air area.

The Shriner's Big Top was at the Stockyards
but there wasn't any action there.  Still, a nice
visual.