I Wanna Be a Cowboy: Where To Go in Dallas-Fort Worth To Do Cowboy Stuff.
Someone from out of town, probably from out of state, is going to come for a visit and they’re going to want do some cowboy stuff. Like, some Wild West, O.K. Corral stuff. Because in Texas, and especially here in Dallas-Fort Worth, we ride cows to work, only speak after we’ve spit a long stream of tobacco juice onto the ground and drink sarsaparilla from our Yeti water bottles.
Sure, they’ll also want to drive by the Sixth Floor in downtown Dallas, and we suppose there’s always a chance your visitors will want to swing south to Waco to worship at the base of Chip and Jo Jo’s silos. But you know it, we know it, everyone knows it — the question is going to come sooner or later: “So where does all the cowboy stuff happen?”
For those of us who grew up on the western side of DFW International Airport, such a question is one we’ve spent our entire lives answering. And we've learned about new places to include in our answers when the occasion called for it. On the surface, it’s fair to suggest that Fort Worth embraces its Western heritage more fervently than Dallas does, but there’s no doubt you can cover quite a bit of mileage to the east and west by seeking out the best cowboy shit DFW has to offer.