KEY Magazine Fort Worth

Catch the Cowgirl Spirit
The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

In June 2002, the Cowgirl Spirit came alive with the opening of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, in Fort Worth's Cultural District. It's the only museum in the world dedicated to honoring and documenting the extraordinary accomplishments of women of the American West. The stories are vibrant, full of risk and romance, courage and conviction, excitement and triumph!

Among the 159 honorees in the Museum's Hall of Fame are pioneering women like painter Georgia O'Keeffe; Sacajawea, the principal guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition; Maria Martinez, the San Ildefonso pueblo potter; Clara Brown, the former slave, businesswoman and humanitarian; Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House on the Prairie books; sharpshooter and Wild West performer Annie Oakley; country singer Patsy Cline; Dale Evans, the Queen of the West; and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Established in Hereford, Texas in 1975, the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame has been recording, preserving and celebrating the dreams, determination and successes of the cowgirl for the past 27 years. The new facility encompasses approximately 33,000 square feet and was designed by David M. Schwarz, who also designed Bass Performance Hall, the Ballpark in Arlington and the new American Airlines Arena in Dallas. Located off Montgomery and Burnett-Tandy, just south of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, it features three gallery areas, a multipurpose theatre equipped with state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment, a flexible exhibit area, research library, and a 2,000 square-foot gift shop specializing in western gifts.

Wonderful dreams. Inspiring stories. Courageous women. That's what the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is all about. It will educate, entertain and warm the hearts of all who enter. And, what‚Äôs more, it will make everyone, young and old, men and women, and boys and girls, realize that they too can achieve their grandest dreams.

Go to www.cowgirl.net or call 817-336-4475 for more information.1720 Gendy, Fort Worth, TX 76107.

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