Lola's Saloon at night, West 7th Street, Fort Worth

The Lead — Music & Memory

The Last Night at Lola's

For twenty-three years a brick room on West 7th Street held up most of what was honest about Fort Worth music. A reckoning with what is lost when a city forgets where its sound was made.

The Stockyards

Cattle Drives and the Founding of Cowtown

By Tom Reyes · 800 words

Before Fort Worth was a city it was a watering stop on the Chisholm Trail, a place where Longhorns rested before the long push to Kansas. The drives ended; the name held.

Built to Last

Fort Worth's Historic Roofs

By Della Whitfield · 1,400 words

A field guide to a century of Texas building: standing seam metal in the Stockyards, slate above the Courthouse, clay barrel tile along Camp Bowie, and what the climate has done to all of them.

Music & Memory

From Bob Wills to Miranda Lambert

By Maggie Saunders · 1,000 words

A century of country music made in and around Fort Worth — and what the city's bandstands say about a sound that refuses to settle.

West of Fort Worth

The Barnett Shale Boom

By Sam Cottrell · 1,000 words

What a generation of natural gas drilling did to the soil, the schools, and the family ranches of western Tarrant County.

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