![]() Sharpshooter Annie Oakley comes alive through memorabilia and hologram technology to tell her story, while an interactive bronc ride puts visitors in the saddle of a bucking bull. Picture: Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. Forget mirrorballs: at Billy Bob’s, a glittering saddle once belonging to Dolly Parton twirls high above the dance floor, which is packed with couples deftly showing off their Texas two-step moves. Known in these parts as the world’s largest honky-tonk, Billy Bob’s is a cavernous 127,000 square foot Western wonderland of country music performances, line-dancing lessons, bull-riding demonstrations, whiskey shots and fun for a 6,000-person capacity crowd. Later that night, I see gaggles of tighter-than-tight Daisy Duke jean-shorts, hot pink boots, big blonde hair and gingham galore at Billy Bob’s Texas. “If you can do your jeans up, you need the next size down,” the Wrangler-clad salesman says with a laugh. Picture: Fort Worth Convention and Visitors BureauĪ twice-daily cattle drive parades down the main street, bucking bulls take on their fearless riders at the weekly championship rodeo, cowboy church convenes on Sunday and stores are crammed with Western boots, hats, jeans and statement buckles.Īt Fincher’s White Front Western Wear, the original home of White Front Western Store (established 1902), I overhear some local fashion advice. Here, in the city’s Stockyards National Historic District, the Texan heritage of cowboys, cowgirls, outlaws, big cattle and big hats is alive and proudly on display.Ĭowgirl at rodeo in Fort Worth, Texas. Other Texan cities could be seamlessly transplanted to Colorado, California or Arizona, such is their modern, big-city, homogenous North American appeal. Your butterscotch-hued mane is as beautiful as your nature, by all accounts, but this ma’am is counting the minutes until she can rest her boots in the dust.īilled alternately as “the Texas you want” and “where the West begins”, Fort Worth is officially the City of Cowboys and Culture. THE BACHELORS: Fort Worth is full of cowboys looking for love WILD WEST: Wanna be a cowboy? Check into this place “All the little kids love riding Buttercup, she’s as sweet as they come.” “You’re doing great, ma’am,” says Levi, the 18-year-old horse whisperer who is doing his best to reassure the awkward Aussie in the saddle. Still, I’ve come to Fort Worth, Texas, to experience cowboy and cowgirl culture, and fully experience it I will. Tensed in a state of high anxiety astride gentle mare Buttercup, I am altogether too far off the ground and too far out of my comfort zone. It’s safe to say I’m not a natural horsewoman.
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