At the time it was settled, around 1854, Bandera County was a remote frontier outpost.
Seventeen years later, Bandera, now known as "The Cowboy Capital of the World", staged major cattle drives through the Bandera pass.

Come "Celebrate Bandera 2005" Labor Day weekend. That's when Bandera returns to its roots. It is the time of the cowboy - and music, horses, longhorn cattle, gunfights, American Indian Pow Wow, gospel singing and cowboy church on the river.

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