This morning we drove over to Fort Worth to the Texas Civil War Museum, which is a non-profit museum and the largest Civil War Museum east of the Mississippi. It was quite large and especially interesting because quite a few of the artifacts they knew who owned or used them and included a summary about that person and their military career. They had a good selection of weapons and equipment from both side displayed opposite of each other so you could compare them. The video about Texas role in the Civil War was very interesting. The collection of Victorian dresses was very nice and showed how styles changed during the 1800's.
After lunch we drove over to the Forth Worth Stockyard Station which was once the biggest and busiest marketing center in the southwest for various livestock. Today livestock is marketed by satellite and online auctions rather than in person and the 125 acre stockyard is now a National Historic District attracting over 2 million visitors a year with it hotels, shops, restaurants, museums and rodeos, etc. They keep a dozen or so long-horned steer that they herd through the street twice a day as they used to be when they were brought in to market. 
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