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)
Most publications on the Texas Revolution tend to focus on the major battles and notable events, but few concentrate on the Texian army's movements between the battles. Shortly after arriving in Gonzales to take command of the gathered Texian forces there, General Sam Houston learned that the Alamo had fallen. Realizing that his small force was in no condition to meet the full force of the Mexican army, he ordered a rapid withdrawal of the army to the Colorado River while also escorting panicked civilians. When Mexican forces arrived opposite the Texian army on this formidable river, a pivotal battle seemed imminent. After days of nervous anticipation, Texian soldiers were stunned to unexpectedly hear that General Houston was ordering a withdrawal from the Colorado. 11 Days on the Colorado provides a day-by-day account of events during and after the withdrawal to the Colorado and will reveal Houston's mindset during this time and offer explanations for some of his curious decisions.
Meet James E. Brasher
James E. Brasher earned an advanced degree in geology from Texas A&M University. He worked for the past 40 plus years in the oil industry and then groundwater conservation and has written several technical articles on subsurface geology. James, a native of Weimar and current resident of Columbus, Texas, is a descendant of one of Stephen F. Austin's Old 300.
James' affinity for historic research was borne in part from his assistance in researching figures from the past for Amanda Danning, his wife and a renowned forensic sculptor. One notable project was the work by Amanda on facial reconstructions of some Mexican soldiers from the battlefield of San Jacinto. James soon afterward authored a magazine article about the Texian's withdrawal from Gonzales to the Colorado River after the fall of the Alamo which served as a forerunner to this book. Amanda Danning provided illustrations for the book.