Local historian J.R. Edmonson does not hesitate when asked who everyone in Fort Worth knows. “Steve Murrin, a third-generation cowboy whose weathered face is hidden behind a drooping gray moustache,” he replies. “He led the effort to revitalize the Fort Worth stockyards in the 1970s.” As the northernmost Texas town on the Chisholm Trail, Fort Worth, established in 1849, benefited from the cattle drives following the Civil War. Murrin and other locals made sure the city’s cowtown day
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