The Stockyards

In Ft. Worth, we visited the Stockyards, which is very much like “Frontierland”- with a veritable Main Street, gigantic honkytonk bars, aromatic cattle yards, and horse sheds. To add atmosphere, a loudspeaker blared a recorded voice, with a Southern accent, rambling about the Stockyard’s history. Only here will one find daily cattle drives, where they take longhorns out of their yard and prod down the streets. Tourists crowd the sidewalks as cowboys on horseback guide the cattle, leaving manure in its tracks.