1. FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID

    They lead right to downtown’s buzzy Sundance Square Plaza, redeveloped in 2013 and enhanced by restaurants, water features, live music, a giant movie screen and the old square’s signature mural depicting a cattle drive.

  2. SIT ON A SADDLE AND TOAST BONNIE AND CLYDE

    OK, we know those famous bank robbers were very, very naughty (although ever-so-glamorous when portrayed on screen by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway) but it is quite exciting to know that they stayed, as you may, in the tres picturesque Stockyards Hotel, where you can hoist yourself up on a saddle-topped barstool and enjoy a drink or three.

  3. FOLLOW THE TRINITY RIVER TO PANTHER ISLAND’S PAVILION

    It’s a great place to watch a live performance in Texas’s only waterfront theatre, with the Fort Worth skyline as a backdrop … or to loll on a sandy beach, swim, fish, kayak and canoe. Soon to follow are even more developments along the river’s shoreline – canals, canoe launches, cafés, restaurants and nightlife.

  4. MEET SHARP-SHOOTING COWGIRL ANNIE OAKLEY IN PERSON

    Or, to be honest, via hologram, when she shares her colourful story (remember she inspired both the stage and film musical Annie Get Your Gun) at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. Her appearance in the new Wild West Gallery opening this summer is part of an exhibition saluting the cowgirls who performed in the Wild West shows from the 1880s to early 20th century

  5. BOOT SCOOT IN THE WORLD’S LARGEST HONKY TONK

    Yes, indeedy, we’re talking about Billy Bob’s Texas, where you can learn to line dance (or boot scoot) Texas-style, listen to world-renowned Country Western stars belt out those ‘somebody done somebody wrong’ laments, watch a midnight cowboy get bucked off a bronco, and eat an enormous steak.

  6. EXPLORE HIP SOUTHSIDE’S ‘RESTAURANT ROW’

    You’ll never go hungry in this trendy neighbourhood, which added 22 new restaurants and bars in 2014 alone. It’s also home to two distilleries and a brewery. If really adventuresome, sample TreyMark Black- Eyed Vodka created by Trey Nickels and others from black-eyed peas. The distillery must be doing something right – last year they sold 3,400 bottles a week of the strange stuff.

  7. SKIP SCOTLAND AND HEAD FOR THE KIMBELL ART MUSEUM

    Why bother to head to Edinburgh for this summer’s cultural fix when you can mosey over to Fort Worth’s splendid Kimbell Art Museum between June 28-September 20. That’s when it’s exhibiting 55 masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland. Titled Botticelli to Braque and spanning from 1490 to 1932, the exhibition includes many masterpieces never before seen in the USA; in fact, Sandro Botticelli’s Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child (c 1490) has not been exhibited outside Scotland for more than 150 years!

  8. PHOTOGRAPH THE WORLD’S ONLY TWICE-DAILY CATTLE DRIVE

    You don’t need to head for the hills – or a Texas ranch – for this colourful experience; the huge, long-horned cattle and their cowboy minders lumber down the Stockyards’ Exchange Avenue daily… at 11.30am and 4pm.

  9. CHOW DOWN, TEXAS-STYLE

    By now you’ve bought your Stetson and boots from one of those colourful Stockyards’ shops (try Leddy’s, Maverick and Fincher’s), so it’s time to chow down, Texas-style. Sample a juicy steak, rattlesnake and rabbit sausage, or perhaps some kangaroo tacos, at the Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, or head south of the border down Mexico way (or, to be more precise, to Joe T Garcia’s) for mariachi music, margaritas and great traditional Mexican fare.

  10. ATTEND A CONCERT IN THE BASS PERFORMANCE HALL

    Summoned into the hall by two gigantic, trumpet-blowing angels on its façade, you can enjoy concerts by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra as well as opera, theatre and ballet.