Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, Western heritage museum in Fort Worth, United States

The Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame is a museum in Fort Worth dedicated to ranching and cowboy history through multiple exhibition spaces. The displays show working equipment, historic photographs, documents, and personal belongings from prominent Texas ranches, organized thematically throughout the building.

The Hall of Fame was established in 1997 to recognize outstanding horsemen and women, and in 2001 it moved to the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District. It occupies Historic Barn A, one of the horse and mule barns built in 1888. The original wooden barns burned on March 14, 1911, after a spark from a passing train; they were rebuilt and completed in March 1912 as the first fireproof barns, with original brick, columns, metal doors, catwalks and cinder blocks.

The museum honors ranchers and cowboys through annual induction ceremonies that celebrate their contributions to Texas life. Visitors encounter personal stories and working objects that reveal how these people shaped the landscape and traditions of the region.

The museum occupies Historic Barn A in the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District, entered through a dark-painted glass-paned double door beneath a small sign listing the museum, gift shop and Old Tyme Photo Parlor. Inside, the original brick walls, metal columns, catwalks and cinder blocks of the 1912 rebuilding remain in place. Allow time to cross between the Hall of Fame booths, the Sterquell Wagon Collection and the Cadillac display on foot.

The Sterquell Collection holds more than 60 antique wagons and horse-drawn vehicles from the frontier era in different styles. These carriages reveal the varied transportation methods that ranchers depended on throughout their daily work and long-distance cattle drives.