Fort Worth Westerners

Corral, Westerners International

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)


Nov. 19, 2024
Deb Goodrich


Nov. 19, 2024: Deb Goodrich, "From the Reservation to Washington: The Rise of Charles Curtis"

"From the Reservation to Washington: The Rise of Charles Curtis"

Taken from Deb Goodrich's recent biography by the same title, her presentation will be an overview of the life of Vice President Charles Curtis, the first person of color to serve as vice president (1929-1933). Curtis was once a household name but has become a footnote in American history. As a mixed-race person who became a public figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his story is more relevant today than ever.

Meet Deb Goodrich

Deb Goodrich is the Garvey Texas Foundation Historian in Residence at the Fort Wallace Museum, Wallace, KS. She has co-hosted a syndicated weekly television show for over ten years and had a radio talk show prior to that. She is chair of the Santa Fe Trail 200, commemorated from 2021-2025. She serves on the boards of: The Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame, Western Writers of America, and the Smoky Hill Trail Association. She previously served as president of the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Kansas and the Kansas City Civil War Roundtable, and past board member of the Kansas Music Hall of Fame. She has spoken to hundreds of groups around the country on topics ranging from John Brown to the Lincolns to Jesse James. She has appeared as a talking head in numerous documentaries including: American Experience: Jesse James; Aftershock; AHC's Gunslinger Series on Wild Bill Hickok; The Road to Valhalla (winner of the Wrangler Award), on the Kansas-Missouri border war during the Civil War; and American Artist: George Caleb Bingham (winner of an Emmy).

Prior programs