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)
Join us for a trip all the way out West with author Janet Sands for a thought-provoking new take on the California missions and presidios — Spain's final project in the New World. Everyone loves to visit these iconic, beautifully restored historic sites, but their story is far more interesting — and significant — than most visitors realize; it's inextricably linked to global history, geopolitics, to the founding of or our country, and even to Texas.
Meet Janet Dowling Sands
Current Sheriff of the Flagstaff, Arizona, Corral of Westerners and past Sheriff of the Santa Barbara Corral, Ms. Sands is a California native with a degree in Art History from U.C. Berkeley. Her broad perspective on history has been shaped by many years of collaboration with academic historians and research scientists as a longtime board member of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University. Bringing together the expertise of both institutions, she played a key role in developing and organizing two international symposia on Human Origins. Topics included the "Great Human Diaspora" that began in Africa and ended with the peopling of the Americas—a subject that Ms. Sands covers in her books and lectures as a necessary and fascinating prequel to post-contact history of California and the West. To purchase her book On a Mission on which her presentation is based, see the Santa Barbara Historical Museum's online store. Her current project is Collision of Cultures: Ancient Peoples, Pueblos, and Spanish Missions of the Southwest.