2025 Conference Tickets

8 am – 6 pm: Set up of chuckwagons, tent, vendor tables, etc. Suggested visits: Fort Worth Stockyards and various museums in Fort Worth.

6:30 pm – Texas Trail of Fame Induction Ceremony and Dinner, Billy Bob's Texas, Stockyards
Ten inductees, including Capt. John T. Lytle - Trail Driver, Rancher, Texas Cattle Raisers Assn Tickets for dinner are $150 per person. Register for dinner.

8 am Chuckwagon breakfast/coffee/fruit/pastries, followed by registration, and meet & greet. You may tour the Chisholm Trail Outdoor Museum.

10:40 am Working sessions, designed to:

• elicit input of both what has been done and what is planned by each trail organization.
• foster discussion of activities, ideas, and procedures that will help each trail organization develop measurable goals plus share in reaching common goals for the good of all.
• encourage participants in each trail organization to become more involved locally and nationally.

Includes long-terms goals, short-term goals, and action steps.

11:30 am Chuckwagon lunch at Old Gringo Pavilion

1 pm Welcome, plus speakers:

• Texas Secretary of Agriculture Sid Miller on the GO TEXAN® program
• Richard McCaslin, Director of Publications, Texas State Historical Association, "The Cattle Kingdom Sprawled Across the West"

2:45 pm Break

3 pm Speakers

• W. W. "Bill" Caruth III, descendant of Dallas pioneer real-estate family, "Shawnee Trail"
• Frank Sharp, Official State of Texas Longhorn Herd, Fort Griffin State Historic Site, "The Texas Longhorn, From Distinction to Extinction"
• Jim Hodges, author of Texas Longhorns, A Short Essay, "A Tribute to the Drovers"

5 pm Opportunity to attend the Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering in the Fort Worth Stockyards (separate ticket required)

8 am: Breakfast (pastries, fruit, coffee)

9 am Welcome back - Carrie Murdoch, Executive Director, Chisholm Trail Outdoor Museum

9:10 am Greetings from civic leaders, followed by speakers

• Stephen Walker, retired, Texas Department of Transportation, "2014 Texas Chisholm Trail Marker Restoration Project"
• Steve Myers, Vice President, Texas Chisholm Trail Association, Fort Worth, Texas, "Trail Drivers of Texas and Peter Preston Ackley"
• Brad Patterson, Director, Division of Community Heritage, Texas Historical Commission, "Texas Historic Tourism"
• Glenn Murray, horse breeder, PRCA, ranches in Comanche, Texas and Nebraska, "Story of Charles Alonzo Kennaday"
• Jerry Baird, world champion chuckwagon cook and rancher, "Cooking for Some of the Big Ranches; Ranching and Today's Cattle Industry"
• Academy of Western Artists presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Michael Martin Murphey, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the song "Wildfire"
• Michael Martin Murphey, "What Inspired Me to Sing Cowboy Music"

11:30 am Closing

11:45 am Authentic chuckwagon lunch

1 pm Adjourn; stay and enjoy the Chisholm Trail Outdoor Museum, or head to the Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering, in the Fort Worth Stockyards (separate ticket required)

3 pm Meet/greet Michael Martin Murphey at Old Gringo Boot Store, 140 E Exchange, Stockyards