Legends of Texas: A Stockyards Saga

By Joshua Osswald

In the heart of Fort Worth's Stockyards, where brick streets echo with hoofbeats and neon lights shimmer against old cattle pens, a troupe of actors takes the stage to bring Texas legends to life.

They play Crockett at the Alamo, Houston at San Jacinto, Annie Oakley with her rifle, Sam Bass on the outlaw trail, and Goodnight driving cattle north. Yet behind the costumes, the actors wrestle with their own struggles-broken families, lost dreams, hidden scars.

As the show falters under fading crowds, they make a bold choice: to tear up the safe script and tell the truth. Forgotten voices-pioneer women, Black cowboys, Native warriors, vaqueros-step into the light at last.

What begins as theater becomes revelation. Onstage and off, history and memory blur until the cast, the cattle, and the legends themselves stand together beneath the Texas stars.

Because in Fort Worth, one truth endures:
In Texas, legends never die. They ride on.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FTT2SXSJ
• ISBN13: 9798268195569
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"