Pioneer Plaza is the largest public open space in the Dallas central business district and features a re-creation of a cattle drive with bronze longhorn steers being driven by three cowboys on horses.
The plaza and its accompanying sculpture were the idea of real estate developer Trammell Crow, who wanted an iconic “Western” sculpture in the city of Dallas.
It commemorates nineteenth-century cattle drives that took place along the Shawnee Trail, the earliest and easternmost route by which Texas longhorn cattle were taken to northern railheads.