This pic is from July, 2009, and it is of the daily cattle drive in Ft. Worth, Texas. Each morning, in the old stockyards section of Ft. Worth, several attending cowboys drive about 12 or 15 longhorns a few blocks down the street to a corral, and in the afternoon they drive them back again. Crowds of people gather along both sides of the street to watch.
Ft. Worth was an important location in the days of the huge cattle drives of the Old West. Thousands of cattle were driven into Ft. Worth along the Chisholm Trail. The stockyards that held these cattle still stand, but most are now converted to shops. The daily cattle drive for tourists is all just for show now. It was pretty impressive standing just a few feet from those huge steers. I can hardly imagine what it would have been like to stand there and watch hundreds go by.
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