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Forth Worth began as a western outpost in 1849. Home to soldiers, frontiersmen, and cowboys, it was established as one of eight forts to protect settlers from Indian raids.

The settlement’s advantageous position along the Chisholm Trail in the 1860’s through the 1870s cemented cattle raising as a staple of Fort Worth’s early economy.

Railroads threading through all of Texas in the later 1800s brought prosperity and an increase of transportation to many growing settlements, including Fort Worth. The Texas and Pacific Railway rolled through the swelling settlement in 1876.

Right before the railroad was established, Fort Worth had an awful winter snowstorm that coincided with a rough financial jolt across the nation. These two factors halted the railroad twenty-four miles outside of town, and the hopeful population’s expectations of a growing Fort Worth plummeted. The town went from 3,000 residents to a scraggly crowd of 600.

Legends have been built around this period in Fort Worth’s history. The newspapers, bored in the almost ghost-town, published mock articles about panthers sited lying down in the streets, undisturbed by passersby because there were no passersby.