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The Fort Worth Stockyards national historic district: An illustrated history and guide pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Reality for Fort Worth was in the beginning a scratching, clawing,
never-say-die hunger for survival. Reality was Hell s Half Acre, a law-
less section of downtown Fort Worth that attracted cowboys, railroad
workers and buffalo hunters.
Reality was the Indians who were here, the soldiers who came and
the settlers who survived. Reality was the heartbreak of many failures
and the heart-thumping elation of an occasional success. Happiness was
the coining of the railroad and the vestbustin pride during the short life
of the Texas Spring Palace. Reality was the booming prosperity brought
by the big Armour and Swift meat packing plants.
Fort Worth from the start has been an oasis for cowboys.
In the 1860s and 1870s, the cowboys came during the trail drive era
to rest their herds, to buy their provisions -- and to be entertained.
Through the 1880s, the cowboys came to the new railroad to ship
their livestock, and stayed to buy their supplies-- and to be entertained.
In the 1890s -- and for another 50 years after establishment of
the Armour and Swift meat packing plants -- the cowboys came to
market their animals,to buy their hats, boots and saddles--and to be
entertained.
Fort Worth and the Stockyards National Historic District today is
history that lives. Much still remains to remind what it was. A visit to
the Stockyards is a fun-filled, adventurous step into the past that is
available nowhere else.
Old-time cattlemen love Fort Worth and the Stockyards. You still
see them swaggering in front of the turn-of-the-century buildings and
swapping tall tales in the saloons along Exchange Avenue. Old habits
are hard to break.
As a stockyards tour guide I was surprised when a young visitor
from Germany had her heart set on pushing into a saloon through
swinging doors. That s what she wanted the West to be. We no longer
have saloons with swinging doors. Even cowboys have come to appre-
ciate air conditioning, and swinging doors aren t efficient. So saloons
have changed. The West has changed also...and yet it hasn t.
This book is about 150 years of .change, and of much that hasn t
changed.
The best way to get a feel for what it was is to explore what is left.
To know the Stockyards, you first must know Fort Worth. That is
where this guide begins.
The rest is a story of the evolution of a quiet piece of prairie three
miles north of town into one of the world s busiest livestock markets.
Enjoy your trip to the Fort Worth Stockyards. There will never be
another place like it.
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The Fort Worth Stockyards national historic district: An illustrated history and guide pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024