Say “Stockyards,” and everyone knows that means Fort Worth, Texas. Anyone visiting the city today is struck by how beautifully the historic stockyards have been preserved. So it’s unsettling to realize that except for a few people—a Fort Worth firefighter family among them—all that would have disappeared. What we take for granted today wasn’t at all assured back in 1976, when the Fort Worth Stockyards were going the way of wreck and ruin. It’s sad to see glory days disappear, an
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