Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering

Fort Worth, TX · Festival

When: October 23–25, 2026
Where: Cowtown Coliseum, Fort Worth Stockyards · Fort Worth · TX
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Western swing musician Red Steagall started this gathering at the Fort Worth Stockyards in 1991 to celebrate cowboy culture. The three day event fills the historic Stockyards with ranch rodeo, a chuckwagon cook off, cowboy poetry and Western swing dancing. It now draws contestants, vendors and roughly 85,000 visitors from across the country each October.

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Red Steagall Cowboy Gatheringsame spot
Western swing musician Red Steagall started this gathering at the Fort Worth Stockyards in 1991 to celebrate cowboy culture.
Fort Worth Stockyards open0.1 mi
Armour and Swift built packing plants here in 1902 and the yards became the largest livestock market south of Kansas City, handling over five million head in 1917..
Chisholm Trail cattle drives0.1 mi
Between 1867 and the mid-1880s some five million longhorns were driven north out of Texas to the Kansas railheads.
Joe T. Garcia's opens as a barbecue counter on the North Side0.4 mi
Jose Tafolla Garcia opened a small place called Joe T.
Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth1.4 mi
Holds the cattle barons and city founders on the bluff, and in an adjoining section the gambler Luke Short, who killed the former marshal Jim Courtright in a gunfight on Main Street in 1887..