Walk into the largest bronze cattle drive in the world
Forty-nine longhorns, cast at life and a half
A sloping downtown park with a bronze herd strung out across it, steers at about six feet at the shoulder, moving down a bluff and through a shallow stream with riders at the head.
Why it's unique
Forty-nine bronze longhorns and three mounted drovers by Robert Summers, unveiled in 1994 across a 4.2-acre park with a constructed stream and a limestone bluff. It is described as the largest bronze monument of its kind in the world.
It clears the one-minute test on layout rather than on scale alone: the herd is staggered down a slope and through water across four acres, and it was built to be walked into rather than photographed from a kerb. The drive it depicts came through here on the Shawnee Trail, which is the reason the city is where it is.
Before you go
Walk in among them. Almost everybody photographs the herd from the pavement at the top, which is the one angle from which it reads as a row of statues rather than a drive in motion; from inside, staggered across the slope, it moves.
Go early or late. There is very little shade, the bronze holds heat, and downtown Texas summer afternoons are not the time. The Pioneer Cemetery immediately next door predates all of this by well over a century and is almost always empty.