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Fort Worth is one of America’s "Cowtowns" and lives in the shadow of its wild history as a rip-roaring cowboy town, a place of gunfights and cattle drives -- even though its cultural establishment is superior to that of Dallas and it has seen a downtown rebirth in recent years. In Fort Worth that fellow in the faded jeans and cowboy hat could well be the president of the bank.


Fort Worth is located in north central Texas, 30 miles west of Dallas, and is the third most populous metro area in Texas, behind Houston and Dallas. The four-county Fort Worth Metro Area (Tarrant, Johnson, Parker and Hood Counties) forms the western half of the Dallas-Fort Worth “Metroplex,” which is the largest market in the southern U.S. and ninth largest in the nation.


Fort Worth was established as a frontier army post in 1849. The outpost became a stopping place on the stories Old Chisholm Trail and a shipping point for the great herds of Longhorn cattle being sent to northern markets. Fort Worth is known as the city “Where the West Begins” and today the pioneering spirit remains, but attention has turned to the high-tech and service industries of an emerging western metropolis. Fort Worth offers the very best of Texas.