And got to fish in the big bass world championship. to get the
Alde system fixed. fort worth is where the west begins.
became the home of the first.
you all know the band called Midland. and of course. Good shakes. where they're gonna
do the cattle drive. you might have to go to, a like a Bambi or a Pod or something.
but there's a whole lot of history down here. this here is Tyson, say hi to Tyson.
I used to fish a lot of tournaments... in
1996, I won the state of Iowa and got to fish in the Big Bass World Championship, uh
representing the state of Iowa. We're in Texas, I gotta throw a line out right?
maybe i shouldn't stand directly back
here. it is brisk this morning. it's currently 57 degrees. 57. had a beautiful sunset last night
get a lot of beautiful sunsets that goes across the water here but uh anyway today Michelle and i
are going to head into the dallas fort worth area this is our last weekend here at lake tahuacany
it's a thousand trails and uh then we're gonna start heading up to truma in elkhart indiana
to get the alda system fixed on our airstream on stella sorry stella we're gonna go into uh
fort worth today and see the historic area of the stockyards and then we're gonna visit some family
i've got a lot of cousins that live in the dallas fort worth area and uh as soon as michelle's ready
we're gonna go we've been wanting to go to the stockyards for a long time i know this will be our
first time we've ever been there that should be a good time let's roll starting route to stockyards
wait baby you ready to go rope cattle 15 to park
you get loaded a lot of money i did a lot of money well we just paid our 15 bucks to park
and uh now for all day all day parking and since we're near we thought we'd look at some steer
holy cow look at the size of those horns wow those guys are really horny aren't they
yeah fort worth is where the west begins and nothing embodies western heritage better than the
fort worth stockdog's national historic district from the original brick walkways to the wooden
corrals every inch of the stockyards tells the true history of texas famous livestock industry
as a grover headed cattle up the chisholm trail to the railroads he had one last stop for rest and
supplies fort worth texas beyond fort worth he'd be crossing the red river into indian territory
between 1866 and 1890 drovers trailed more than 4 million head of cattle
through fort worth the city soon became known as cow town when the railroad arrived in 1876
fort worth became a major shipping point for livestock so the city built the union stockyards
two and a half miles north of the tarrant county courthouse in 1887 but the union stockyards
company lacked the funds to buy enough cattle to attract local ranchers so president moxie hurley
invited wealthy boston capitalist greenleaf simpson to fort worth in hopes he would invest
looking at a lot of these pins here at the stockyards knowing they dated back to the 1800s
it's pretty cool the very streets they used to walk on simpson arrived and found
pens full of cattle he decided fort worth represented a good market but made plans to invest
little did he know the pins didn't normally hold that much cattle
he'd simply arrived on the heels of heavy rains in a railroad strike we're down at stockyard station
right now a lot of little restaurants and shops it's a pretty neat little area with the old brick
brick streets railroad yeah it's going right through
michelle that looks like a store you might want to check out she shook her head and went right in
on april 27 1893 simpson bought the union stockyards for 133
333.33 and changed the name to the fort worth stockyards company
simpson invited other investors to join him including his boston neighbor louisville v niles
whose primary business was meat packing they soon realized that instead of shipping the cattle off
to other markets to be processed they'd be much better off building meat packing plants nearby
so they could keep the business in the city as you can see you can rent some bicycles here if you'd
like to they've got a hyatt place hotel rfd tv the investors began working to attract major packers
to fort worth and by about 1900 they had persuaded both armor and company and swifton company to
build plants near the stockyards i'm amman swift held a simple coin toss to decide who would get
with tractive land i'mma won the toss chose the northern side construction began in 1902 however
swift and company ended up getting better into the bargain with the southern side which contained
a large gravel pit that they used for the construction of their plant they even sold some
of the gravel to armor that same year construction started on the pins the bonds and the new
livestock exchange building which housed the many livestock commission companies telegraph offices
railroad offices and other support businesses it became known as the wall street of the west
the success of the stockyards meant the area needed an
indoor show facility this here hope is the coliseum the ever so famous coliseum
not the one in rome in 1907 construction began on a grand coliseum now known as the
cow town coliseum that was completed in just 88 working days in time for the grand opening of
the feeders and breeders show the coliseum became the home of the first indoor rodeo
uh
so
come here often we'll butter my buns and call me biscuits she's got her new man don't get all
whiskey
and then we got the famous billy bob's here if you all know the band called
midland they're playing tonight
just to get in to billy bob's just to go look around
it costs three dollars each the concert tonight is all sold out it was mid lane
billy bob's does not allow you to take video inside but you can take pictures
during the day so not really a whole lot going on what is it we're gonna go see now
the cattle drive two times at the in the day 11 a.m and 4 p.m they have the famous
cattle drive everybody kind of lines up on the sidewalk gets their spot we found
a bench right by the sidewalk and what'd we find michelle you found a shake shack
you ever tried shake shack you should try it yeah they're good good burgers good fries and of course
if you come down here to the stockyards and you're wondering like we were where they're
gonna do the cattle drive so if you locate where the coliseum is this road that comes up next to it
so they come down a road over here come down this road
and then they will be coming right here past us
my
and so that was it just a short kettle right boy a lot of people coming to see that this is
a neat place isn't it i like it here what else would you like to go see more shops
oh yeah orange and everything yep
that'll work now if we could just figure out a way to
i might have to go to a like a bambi or a pod or something right i don't care whatever it takes
hey
show the clouds
so
now i ain't meaning to be such a licking a promise but there's a whole lot of history down here in
the fort worth stockyards historic district and i don't reckon my bazook could ever begin to tell
you all about the entire history besides brian and michelle are ready to get a wiggle on and hook up
with their kinfolk this here this is randy marty tom and joyce and of course y'all know pi girl
michelle one thing's for sure if you ever get to fort worth and don't have your britches in a twist
i'd suggest you take an entire day and night and enjoy all that fort worth stockyards have to offer
well looks like this rider bunch is fixing the head to the
ace in the hole for a whole killing time
so i guess this is where i have to say adios this here is tyson say hi to tyson
tyson tyson got his name because he like nibbling and biting my mommy and daddy's ear
so they named him tyson
i don't know about you but i am absolutely worn out tired we had a fun weekend
we did hung out with some family too and uh had a really good time and that's it
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