Ft. Worth Facts

Fort Worth is a city of unending contrasts. A world-class music competition sits side-by-side with the "World's Largest Honky-Tonk." There are live rodeos and cattle-drives complete with horses, wagons and trail bosses as well as exhibitions of artists like Monet, Picasso and Matisse. You can watch performances by a nationally recognized ballet company and then go "two-stepping" to live country and western music.

Downtown

Sundance Square is a 16-block area of buildings that have been restored and/or replicated to match their turn-of-the-century appearances. Named after the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy's famous sidekick, the Square is home to such restaurants as Billy Miner's Saloon-where...

...Yet the city exudes a quiet confidence, reserve, and sense of comfort that are often missing in Big D. And gradually, people are learning that Fort Worth has plenty that Dallasites might envy.

Nicknamed Cowtown, Fort Worth revels in its role as the gateway to the West; the mythic qualities of the American West -- wide-open spaces and even grander dreams -- are still palpable here. In the mid-19th century, on the heels of the war between Texas and Mexico, Fort Worth began as a frontier army town in the Republic of Texas, assigned with protecting settlers from Native American attacks. The outpost grew into the last major stop along the Chisholm Trail, the major thoroughfare of the great Texas...