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)
The program will discuss Ray's research in to the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota response to the Sand Creek Massacre centered on the First and Second Battle of Julesburg in 1865. Ray uses a multidisciplinary approach drawing from his training in history, geography, and archaeology combined with his training a military campaign planner to better understand the events of 1865 and the important role they played in shaping the next decade of U.S. government and settler relations with the Plains Indian Nations. He also works to utilize cutting edge technology such as thermal imagery and LIDAR in his research to better understand and recreate the battle space.
Meet Ray Sumner
Ray is a cultural resources coordinator for the Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML) at Colorado State University where he is also completing his PhD in Anthropology. He is currently working to finish his dissertation and hopes to graduate in the Spring of 2026. He is also a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who served 22 years on active duty serving 16 years overseas in Korea, Iraq, Kuwait, and Thailand. He spent the majority of his career as a Psychological Operations Officer stationed in the Republic of Korea. He holds a Masters of Arts in History with a Public History (Museum Studies & Historic Preservation concentration) from Colorado State University and a Master of Arts in History with Honors from American Military University. His thesis at AMU was on the expeditions of John Wesley Powell to the Colorado in 1867 and 1868 as well as Powell's exploration of the Green and Colorado Rivers through the Grand Canyon in 1869 and 1871-72.