Stop by and listen for a spell as cowboys tell their stories of the lonely trails they have traveled.

The story of old west wouldn’t be complete without the cowboy. By the late 1860’s, the price of a four-year-old Texas longhorn was approximately three or four dollars in its home range. Up north, the same animal might be worth forty dollars. With no railroads leading to Texas, a unique job for cowboys evolved. They moved cattle to the north for bigger and better money. Wichita flourished when the railroad and the cattle business came to town in 1872.

At the drover’s camp at Old Cowtown Museum, visitors learn about aspects of the cowboy life such as cooking meals, roping, branding and feeding the cattle.