Fort Worth is home to the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. This outstanding museum celebrates many strong and courageous women who epitomized what is great about America. While the cowboy is an American icon, the many women who settled the American West are often overlooked.
The 220 inductees include everyone from the painter Georgia O’Keeffe to the sharpshooter Annie Oakley to U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
The museum got its start in 1975 in the basement of the Deaf Smith County Library in Hereford, Texas, and moved to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1994. It moved into its current home in the Fort Worth Cultural District in 2002.