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It is said that "the first citizen of Dallas",
John Neely Bryan, he died and was buried in the "Pioneer Park Cemetery” of......
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Along
the John Neely Bryan's history, we come Pioneer Park Cemetery - It is located
south of Downtown, next to the Dallas City Hall.
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This is a tree-covered hill,
a few workers are driving lawnmower to
trim the lawn. Nineteenth-century pioneers, they buried in this land.
The south of the Pioneer Park Cemetery, there is
a sharp monument. It were standing around the four, the waist with a long knife
cowboy statues, monument and sculpture above the top of the hands of men, then
insisted on a gun, the appearance of the pioneers in the western United States,
ha ha, he is John Neely Bryan, in those days?
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West of Pioneer
Park Cemetery is Pioneer Plaza. Visible from a distance,
suddenly a cowboy on his horse statue on a hill. As we walked quickly,
unexpectedly is Dallas famous Cattle Drive.
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Ha Ha, see more cow statue. But if
let a person feel shocked, I think it is the Cattle Drive - their cowboy
statues from the beginning of the hills, flocking, along the slopes of the
Pentium, very dark, out of the woods, mountain stream, all the way to the
Young, the side of the street.
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These
huge copper longhorn is carved by equal proportion of the western United
States. Even though they are skinny, tall body, especially the two long horns
on the top, looks very fierce. From the high hill bravely down, majestic, or running
up, or subduction down, or look up bray, or wading through, or big step
forward, a head rough forceful, lifelike. I counted, there are 49, and not a
same - far look like a pressing momentum Cattle Herd; and exposure to which is
more kind of daunting feeling.
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I
would like to know this group of "Cattle Drive", when it is created,
who is the sculptor, but I do not find signs explained. Finally see a rock and
carved some text next to a cowboy on a hill, but the stone has already been
spent grinding, handwriting is not clear, I can only see the author Robert
Summers.
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But
I think this group of statues on the Pioneer Plaza, reflecting the origin of
early cowboy in Texas. This is also the best marked of the city history. Neighboring
Fort Worth, it has reserved a 100 years of history -- Stock Yard, it is the world's
largest cattle trafficking. Now every Friday, Saturday hold Mesquite Rodeo
bull.
