The famous Cattle Drive Sculptures at Pioneer Plaza, Dallas

Texas is famous for it's long horn cattles first introduced to the New World by early European settlers. Texas has a long tradition of these cattles being driven from the south to railroads and business centers in the north. Shawnee Trail was the Eastern most and earliest of these trails which passed through the current area of Dallas, Austin and Waco. Drovers used to drive hundreds of cattles collected from this area along the trail to northern rail heads. Shawnee Trail was in use before and after the American Civil War but gradually declined because of protests from farmers of the territory through which the trail passed. Later on Friday other trails to the west developed and Shawnee Trail was gradually closed down.

The sculpture at the Pioneer Plaza in Dallas Downtown is placed in memory of these cattle drives which used to take place through the surrounding area. The Dallas cattle drive sculpture at Pioneer Plaza created by Robbert Summers. The sculpture commemorates the longhorn cattle drives that used take place along the Shawnee Trail driving thousands of cattles to the northern rail heads. This was the period of early nineteenth century around the time of civil war. Texas had abundant longhorn cattles and in each of these drives thousands of cattles were driven.

There are 49 cattles and 3 riders in this sculpture all made of bronze making one of the largest bronze sculptures of its kind in the world. All pictures are taken by the author here using Huawei Honor 4x mobile camera.