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)
Bridles and Biscuits: Contraband Culture in Spanish East Texas, written by Gary L. Pinkerton in collaboration with Tom Gann, explores the complex economies and shifting structures of a borderland environment. In 1773, as residents of Los Adaes were abruptly forced to relocate to Béxar, the Spanish retreat from the region created a greater opening for unregulated trade among French, American, and Italian settlers. For five years before Spanish subjects resettled Nacogdoches in 1779, the people forced out of Los Adaes forged a new existence on the Trinity River in a place they called Bucareli. There, Antonio Gil Ibarvo solidified his role as a key figure in contraband trade. Through the story of Ibarvo's rise to become the leader of Nacogdoches and his subsequent arrest and removal from that post, Pinkerton demonstrates how the region that hosted the exiled Adaeseños "became the entry point for those with bigger goals than trading horses and skins."
Meet Gary Pinkerton
Gary L. Pinkerton is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Texas History (alliancefortexashistory.org). Since 2016 when he published Trammel's Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North, he has been actively engaged as an author, independent researcher, and web designer. He is a Fellow of the East Texas Historical Association and a former board member. He has published works in the Handbook of Texas, the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, and the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. Gary has a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Houston and worked in human resources in his professional career.