2025 Trail Ride

The Cowboy Artists of America recently completed the 60th annual trail ride at the Collins Creek Ranch outside Albany, Texas. The event, which ran from April 23 to 26, brought together active CA members, invited guests and a generous group of ranch supporters that included Collins Creek Ranch owners Cliff and Lynne Teinert.

The 5,000-acre family-run ranch sits on a portion of the Great American Cattle Trail, the late-1800s trail that cowboys used to take cattle north to Kansas before they were loaded onto rail lines for their journey to Chicago. The ranch also sits in the shadow of the Fort Griffin State Historic Park. Fort Griffin was a U.S. Cavalry fort established on a hilltop in 1867 to help protect western settlers who had ventured deep into Texas after the Civil War. Fort Griffin has played a significant role in Western culture: it is where Wyatt Earp met Doc Holliday prior to their move to Tombstone, and Fort Griffin also plays a pivotal role in Cormac McCarthy’s Western novel Blood Meridian.