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)
From his earliest sketches of Texas cattle in 1876 until his death in 1945, Texas master Frank Reaugh dedicated his life and career to telling the stories of the great cattle drives from Texas to points north. He collaborated wiith writer Clyde Walton Hill and composer David Guion to create one of the first performance-art pieces in Texas and in the United States in 1933. Reaugh's Twenty-Four Hours with the Herd debuted in Oak Cliff in 1933 and was performed in Waco and at the Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas in 1936. The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts assembled an abbreviated version of Twenty-Four Hours with the Herd in 2021. This presentation will show the 2021 version with commentary by Michael R. Grauer, authority on Frank Reaugh and author of Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man.
Meet Michael Grauer
Mr. Grauer holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in art history from the University of Kansas; Master of Arts in art history from Southern Methodist University; and Master of Arts in history from West Texas A&M University. Beginning his career at Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1984, he was curator of art and Western heritage at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum for 31 years. He was recruited to become McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and curator of cowboy collections and Western art at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum where he worked for six years. He has curated over 160 exhibitions and authored over 75 publications on art, culture, and history of the American West. He taught at West Texas A&M University for over twenty years. He was the 2012 University of Kansas Department of Art History's distinguished alumnus. He was inducted into the Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame at Dodge City, Kansas, as Cowboy Historian for 2021.