But let's go back for a minute to ten gallon hats. You don't see many of them in Dallas. Dallas prides itself on moving away from cattle. Cattle are so Fort Worth . Anyway, ten gallon hats are what you see when you go to Fort Worth.
Fort Worth is a real place.
We sat at the famous bar of the White Elephant Saloon under a proverbial museum of ten gallon hats, hundreds of 'em, mounted on the walls and ceiling. Didn't take 'em off indoors, neither. Later, we visited Billy Bob's and watched 'em cuttin' up the floor with the Texas Two-Step. Then spent the night at Miss Molly's, once a house of ill repute. Next morning, saw the hands rustle a herd of cattle, a dozen head, up a street lined with Chisolm Trail-era shrines, restored, historic, but touristy.