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)
In response to drought and military pressure, after 1786 thousands of Ndé, or Apaches, settled near Spanish presidios in a system of reservation-like establecimientos, or settlements, stretching from Laredo to Tucson. Although a small number of Ndé and Spaniards reached an enduring accommodation, the majority of Ndé who settled on Spanish reservations did so only to fulfill temporary needs. Demonstrating minimal signs of acculturation and dependence, they circumvented the overambitious incorporation efforts of Spanish and Mexican officials through a variety of adaptive and resistive strategies, including gambling away their rations and gifts, forging interband and intertribal alliances, and continuing to hunt, gather, and raid. As a result of these efforts, Apaches de paz worked together with independent Ndé groups to reassert control of their homeland after the collapse of the establecimientos in 1832 and would eventually draw on this prior experience to negotiate conquest more shrewdly on U.S. reservations.
Meet Matthew Babcock, Ph.D.
Matthew Babcock is an Associate Professor of History at UNT Dallas and earned his Ph.D. at Southern Methodist University, his M.A. at the University of New Mexico, and his B.A. at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the history of North American borderlands, Native Americans, and the colonial Southwest. He is the author of Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and he is currently working on a book project, "Frontiers of War and Peace: Antonio Cordero and Hispanic-Indigenous Relations in the Southwest."