Each month, we get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin name: Puma concolorSize: Up to eight feet longHabitat: The Trans-Pecos, the South Texas brushlands, and . . . the Metroplex?Fort Worth, alias Cowtown, alias Panther City, is these days home to little in the way of livestock (the Stockyards Longhorns notwithstanding) or exotic wildlife. It earned the Cowtown moniker in the late nineteenth century, when it was a major cattle center, but came by its Panther City nickname more subtly. In 1875 a Dallasite reportedly joked that Fort Worth was so dull that an impression he’d seen in the dust in the street could have been left by a napping panther. Unbothered, the Fort Worthy took up the slinky feline as a totem.…
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