February 5, 2019 – Longhorns and German dialects
We stayed in Fort Worth for another day. My humans wanted to go to the Stockyards in Fort Worth. The Fort Worth Stockyards is a historic district. It holds a former livestock market. In the late 1800s the cattle were trailed along the Chisholm Trail to the railheads. Fort Worth was the last stop to get rest and supplies. Between 1866 and 1890 drovers trailed more than 4 million cattle through Fort Worth. In 1876 the railroad arrived in Fort Worth and became a major shipping point for livestock. You can read more about the Fort Worth Stockyards here: https://www.fortworthstockyards.org. We arrived early when there weren’t many people. My humans wanted to be on time for the Cattle Drive. First we visited the area where the cattle, hogs and sheep were kept and were trailed in the railroad. That was very interesting. They have a cowboy church but as it wasn’t Sunday there was no service. While we were waiting for the Cattle Drive to start some cows passed us. Well, not that kind of c