 Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Woodruff and welcome to the Fort Worth Report. So this week I am at the Fort Worth Stockyards to talk with Jeff and Brenda about the Cow Kid Roundup Camp. So Brenda, can you tell us a little bit more about the camp? It's a summer activity that we do. It's to give our visitors an opportunity to have a hands-on with the activities that the drovers represent. And we do the cow camp on each and every Saturday and Sunday from 1.30 to 2.30, behind the exchange building at the historical Fort Worth Stockyards, May through September. And what age group would you say the camp is for? Well actually the age group is all because we want to take the children and the adults to also educate them about our history of the Western heritage that we have. It would be hard to put a senior on a stick course and let them run around the deal, but if we have the smaller ones we let them get to do things like that. We let them pretend that they're actually a real cowboy. Well it's interesting too, the older people, you know, they love the educational part. And they interact with us and the kids, they just like the horses and the cowboys Yeah and I think, you know, we were talking about this earlier. We had a group today and I happened to catch them on the street and she goes, you know, I never knew what those things were for until I saw your program. I said, those things, you mean the spurs? Yeah, you just move the horse this way and you move the horse this way. And it was just kind of like dancing in a nice way. I said, yeah, most people think that spurs right here that aren't horse people. Just jab them and make them go fast. We teach them about the saddles. We teach them about the longhorn because if it wasn't for the longhorn, Texas may very well not have survived after the Civil War. I mean, we were broke but we had millions of longhorns and gathering those longhorns and getting them to the meat markets in the east is what saved Texas and that's why we do the cattle drive. And can you tell us a little bit about the cattle drive? What we do is twice a day, 11, 30 and four o'clock every day is a reenactment of the cattle drives of the late 1800s. The cattle drive was the only way to get the cattle from here to the train, to the railheads in Kansas. So back then they were moving herds of three or 4,000 longhorns. Now we have 16 minimum each cattle drive because one for each decade that the Texas has been in existence. We actually have 18 longhorns right now. But the idea is to have at least one for each decade. And for more information about events happening at the Fort Worth Stockyards, just visit their website at fortworthherd.com.