Clichéd kitsch or regionally expressive design?

Pioneer Plaza is a 4.2-acre landscape with 40 one-and-one-quarter size bronze sculptures of longhorns and three mounted cowboys, located on the south side of downtown Dallas.

Best photo of the herd

The work was created by Robert Summers, an artist from Glen Rose, Texas, who was best known before this work for his sculpture of John Wayne, located at the eponymous airport in Orange County, California.

But was Dallas really known for cattle drives?

From the periodical "Landscape Architecture", February 2003:

"The Shawnee Trail did ... originate in south Texas before the Civil War and ran through Dallas, very near the convention center site, and on up to railroad yards in Kansas and Missouri. It was only after the Civil War, in 1867, that the Chisholm Trail opened 30 miles to the west, the Texas cowboy began to become part of the national myth, and Dallas went on to become a mercantile and financial center. By the middle of the 20th century, Dallas had developed a cosmopolitan civic image as "where the east ended." Fort Worth was the beginning of the West, the cowtown."