The Corral meets the third Tuesday each month at 7 PM online via Zoom for a one-hour history presentation.
Topics include local, Texas, and Western history.
Speakers are members, local historians, and university professors.
Visitors are welcome.
If you would like to visit and need the Zoom login information, please use the contact form to request it.
Corral annual membership dues of $20/single and $30/couple are based on the calendar year and include the annual dues payable to our parent organization, Westerners International. Pay your dues online or by mailing us a check. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and all contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
The Fort Worth Westerners Corral was founded in 1965 and is the oldest of the eight active Corrals in Texas. Like the Westerners International organization, membership is open to anyone interested in Western history.
Bob Saul
Fort Worth Westerners' Sheriff
(does what a president does)
Phillip Williams
Fort Worth Westerners' Representative
(works as the representative for contacts with other Corrals, Posses, and the Home Ranch.)
Richard Robinson
Fort Worth Westerners' Keeper of the Chips
(does what a treasurer does)
Old West history covers the Pony Express, the Santa Fe Trail, and the cattle drives, but little is told of the buffalo era. The wanton slaughter of the buffalo (bison) for their hides left the prairie marked by millions of tons of their bones -- the skeletal remains of an entire species. Keith Wondra, curator at Dodge City's Boot Hill Museum, will talk on how Dodge City grew on the growing buffalo hunting trade. Included will be the story of buffalo hunters and the businesses that depended on them.
Meet Keith Wondra
Keith Wondra is the curator at Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City, Kansas. He has written several books on Wichita and Kansas history including Kansas: In The Heart of Tornado Alley, "Where the Old West Comes to Life": The Story of Old Cowtown Museum and Wichita: 1930-2000. Along with the books, Mr. Wondra writes articles for the Dodge City Daily Globe. He is a native Kansan and an alumnus of Wichita State University with a Masters of Arts in History.