Bandera, Texas is a great place for a second home!

Bandera is a slice of life out of the Old West, a town that could serve as a John Ford film set. Known as "The Cowboy Capital of the World" Established as a lumber camp in 1853, this popular guest-ranch center still has the feel of the frontier. Not only are many of its historic buildings intact, but people are as genuinely friendly as any you might imagine from America's small-town past. True, the roads are getting more crowded each year, but once you hunker down, you're unlikely to need to do much driving around.