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Fort Worth Stories

Richard F. Selcer
Fort Worth Stories Book PDF

Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574418385

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Fort Worth Stories by Richard F. Selcer Pdf

Fort Worth Stories is a collection of thirty-two bite-sized chapters of the city’s history. Did you know that the same day Fort Worth was mourning the death of beloved African American “Gooseneck Bill” McDonald, Dallas was experiencing a series of bombings in black neighborhoods? Or that Fort Worth almost got the largest statue to Robert E. Lee ever put up anywhere, sculpted by the same massive talent that created Mount Rushmore? Or that Fort Worth was once the candy-making capital of the Southwest and gave Hershey, Pennsylvania, a good run for its money as the sweet spot of the nation? A remarkable number of national figures have made a splash in Fort Worth, including Theodore Roosevelt while he was President; Vernon Castle, the Dance King; Dr. H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer; Harry Houdini, the escape artist; and Texas Guinan, star of the vaudeville stage and the big screen. Fort Worth Stories is illustrated with 50 photographs and drawings, many of them never before published. This collection of stories will appeal to all who appreciate the Cowtown city.

Stories from the Barrio

Carlos Eliseo Cuéllar
Stories from the Barrio Book PDF

Author : Carlos Eliseo Cuéllar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173008347130

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Stories from the Barrio by Carlos Eliseo Cuéllar Pdf

This work offers a new look at the history of Fort Worth. The history of this people includes the stories of early Mexicanos, escaping the hardships of the Mexican revolution, to the attempts of second generation Mexican-Americans to assimilate to their political voice and freedoms.

Fort Worth Characters

Richard F. Selcer
Fort Worth Characters Book PDF

Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574412741

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Fort Worth Characters by Richard F. Selcer Pdf

Fort Worth history is far more than the handful of familiar names that every true-blue Fort Worther hears growing up: leaders such as Amon Carter, B. B. Paddock, J. Frank Norris, and William McDonald. Their names are indexed in the history books for ready reference. But the drama that is Fort Worth history contains other, less famous characters who played important roles, like Judge James Swayne, Madam Mary Porter, and Marshal Sam Farmer: well known enough in their day but since forgotten. Others, like Al Hayne, lived their lives in the shadows until one, spectacular moment of heroism. Then there are the lawmen, Jim Courtright, Jeff Daggett, and Thomas Finch. They wore badges, but did not always represent the best of law and order. These seven plus five others are gathered together between the covers of this book. Each has a story that deserves to be told. If they did not all make history, they certainly lived in historic times. The jury is still out on whether they shaped their times or merely reflected those times. Either way, their stories add new perspectives to the familiar Fort Worth story, revealing how the law worked in the old days and what life was like for persons of color and for women living in a man's world. As the old TV show used to say, "There are a million stories in the 'Naked City.'" There may not be quite as many stories in Cowtown, but there are plenty waiting to be told--enough for future volumes of Fort Worth Characters. But this is a good starting point.

Panther City

Tom Fegan
Panther City Book PDF

Author : Tom Fegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734570245

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Panther City by Tom Fegan Pdf

A collection of nine fictional crime stories set in Fort Worth, Texas.

Fort Worth Stories, Volume 4

Richard F. Selcer
Fort Worth Stories Volume 4 Book PDF

Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1574418300

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Fort Worth Stories, Volume 4 by Richard F. Selcer Pdf

Fort Worth Stories is a collection of thirty-two bite-sized chapters of the city's history. Did you know that the same day Fort Worth was mourning the death of beloved African American "Gooseneck Bill" McDonald, Dallas was experiencing a series of bombings in black neighborhoods? Or that Fort Worth almost got the largest statue to Robert E. Lee ever put up anywhere, sculpted by the same massive talent that created Mount Rushmore? Or that Fort Worth was once the candy-making capital of the Southwest and gave Hershey, Pennsylvania, a good run for its money as the sweet spot of the nation? A remarkable number of national figures have made a splash in Fort Worth, including Theodore Roosevelt while he was President; Vernon Castle, the Dance King; Dr. H.H. Holmes, America's first serial killer; Harry Houdini, the escape artist; and Texas Guinan, star of the vaudeville stage and the big screen. Fort Worth Stories is illustrated with 50 photographs and drawings, many of them never before published. This collection of stories will appeal to all who appreciate the Cowtown city.

Literary Fort Worth

Judy Alter,James Ward Lee
Literary Fort Worth Book PDF

Author : Judy Alter,James Ward Lee
Publisher : Texas Christian University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055178662

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Literary Fort Worth by Judy Alter,James Ward Lee Pdf

Aware that some may see the title of this volume as an oxymoron, James Ward Lee argues in his "Argumentative Introduction" that for more than a century Fort Worth writers have written well about a city too often dismissed as a semi-rural cow town. Writers have celebrated its world of cattle and oil, to be sure, but many have seen other sides of Fort Worth--the country club set, the literati, the artists and artisans, the musicians, the intellectuals, and the whole minority sub-culture that has given a cosmopolitan tone to the Queen City of the Prairies. Fort Worth is in many ways the most typical of Texas cities--proud of its slogan of "Cowtown and Culture." People mingle as easily at the new Bass Hall, with its world-class visiting entertainers and the Van Cliburn Piano Competition, as they do at the White Elephant Saloon or the Cowtown Coliseum. They visit a museum complex unrivalled anywhere in the world for a city Fort Worth's size, and they attend the Southwest Exposition and Livestock Show. Lee and Judy Alter, both Fort Worth residents and well-known writers themselves, found passages in novels, short stories, and poetry that caught the city's atmosphere and odd bits of its history. And they found that some of the best writing done about Cowtown is journalistic rather than what is usually considered literary. There are articles by current and former members of the staff of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and one particularly poignant piece about the last day of the old Fort Worth Press. Literary Fort Worth is a literary smorgasbord, with something to appeal to almost any reader's taste. And literary? You bet!

Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks

Byrd Moore Williams (IV),Carol E. Roark
Fort Worth s Legendary Landmarks Book PDF

Author : Byrd Moore Williams (IV),Carol E. Roark
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780875651439

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Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks by Byrd Moore Williams (IV),Carol E. Roark Pdf

Presents black-and-white photos and text profiles of nearly eighty architecturally and historically significant buildings in Fort Worth, Texas, all built before 1945.

Grace & Gumption

Katie Sherrod
Grace Gumption Book PDF

Author : Katie Sherrod
Publisher : Texas Christian University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X030251525

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Grace & Gumption by Katie Sherrod Pdf

The stories of Fort Worth women are told in category's, but women are had pigeon-hole. No women living at the time the book was written ar included, to avoid problems of offended feelings.

Jim Courtright of Fort Worth

Robert K. DeArment
Jim Courtright of Fort Worth Book PDF

Author : Robert K. DeArment
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0875652921

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Jim Courtright of Fort Worth by Robert K. DeArment Pdf

Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. One of the most colorful characters from the wild and woolly days of Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, Courtright was at various times city marshal, deputy sheriff, deputy U.S. marshal, private detective, hired killer, and racketeer. Today, he is almost forgotten, either as a gunfighter or a lawman, except in Fort Worth. Little is known about Courtright's early life, though he apparently served in the Union army during the Civil War. But when he arrived in the West, Courtright seemed to attract trouble. He was involved in a shootout during the 1886 railroad strikes and was accused of murder in New Mexico. Deputies were sent to Fort Worth to escort him to New Mexico to stand trial. His escape from them, complete with guns hidden under a restaurant table, is one of Fort Worth's most colorful stories. Finally, he was killed in a shootout that he apparently provoked with gambler and gunman Luke Short. To this day nobody is sure what provoked that feud, but Courtright was honored with the longest funeral procession Fort Worth had ever seen. The myth of Courtright as legendary gunfighter was built in two previous biographies--one by a novelist and the other by a Franciscan priest. After exhaustive research into contemporary newspapers and other accounts and close study of the previous two books, historian Robert K. DeArment deconstructs the myth of Longhair Jim and reconstructs the gunfighter as a real human being, complex, flawed, often courageous, usually both honorable and dishonorable. This book is a must for all those interested in the legends of the West, its lawmen, and its outlaws.

Fort Worth

Harold Rich
Fort Worth Book PDF

Author : Harold Rich
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806147192

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Fort Worth by Harold Rich Pdf

From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas’s—and the nation’s—largest cities, a thriving center of culture and commerce. But along the way, the city’s future, let alone its present prosperity, was anything but certain. Fort Worth tells the story of how this landlocked outpost on the arid plains of Texas made and remade itself in its early years, setting a pattern of boom-and-bust progress that would see the city through to the twenty-first century. Harold Rich takes up the story in 1880, when Fort Worth found itself in the crosshairs of history as the cattle drives that had been such an economic boon became a thing of the past. He explores the hard-fought struggle that followed—with its many stops, failures, missteps, and successes—beginning with a single-minded commitment to attracting railroads. Rail access spurred the growth of a modern municipal infrastructure, from paved streets and streetcars to waterworks, and made Fort Worth the transportation hub of the Southwest. Although the Panic of 1893 marked another setback, the arrival of Armour and Swift in 1903 turned the city’s fortunes once again by expanding its cattle-based economy to include meatpacking. With a rich array of data, Fort Worth documents the changes wrought upon Fort Worth’s economy in succeeding years by packinghouses and military bases, the discovery of oil and the growth of a notorious vice district, Hell’s Half Acre. Throughout, Rich notes the social trends woven inextricably into this economic history and details the machinations of municipal politics and personalities that give the story of Fort Worth its unique character. The first thoroughly researched economic history of the city’s early years in more than five decades, this book will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Fort Worth, urban history and municipal development, or the history of Texas and the West.

A History of Fort Worth in Black & White

Richard F. Selcer
A History of Fort Worth in Black White Book PDF

Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574416169

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A History of Fort Worth in Black & White by Richard F. Selcer Pdf

A History of Fort Worth in Black & White fills a long-empty niche on the Fort Worth bookshelf: a scholarly history of the city's black community that starts at the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers, and comes down to today with our current battles over education, housing, and representation in city affairs. The book's sidebars on some noted and some not-so-noted African Americans make it appealing as a school text as well as a book for the general reader. Using a wealth of primary sources, Richard Selcer dispels several enduring myths, for instance the mistaken belief that Camp Bowie trained only white soldiers, and the spurious claim that Fort Worth managed to avoid the racial violence that plagued other American cities in the twentieth century. Selcer arrives at some surprisingly frank conclusions that will challenge current politically correct notions.

Written in Blood Volume 2

Richard F. Selcer,Kevin Foster
Written in Blood Volume 2 Book PDF

Author : Richard F. Selcer,Kevin Foster
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574413236

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Written in Blood Volume 2 by Richard F. Selcer,Kevin Foster Pdf

In 2010 "Written in Blood Volume 1" told the stories of thirteen law officers who died in the line of duty between 1861 and 1909. Now Selcer and Foster are back with Volume 2 covering more line-of-duty deaths. This volume covers 1910 to 1928, as Fort Worth experiences a race riot, lynchings, bushwhacking, assassinations and martial law imposed by the U.S. Army.

Haunted Fort Worth

Rita Cook,Russell W. Danoridge
Haunted Fort Worth Book PDF

Author : Rita Cook,Russell W. Danoridge
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614234081

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Haunted Fort Worth by Rita Cook,Russell W. Danoridge Pdf

In Fort Worth, the past and present exist side by side and spirits walk among the living. Stay the night at Miss Molly's Hotel; the oldest bed-and-breakfast in the city boasts frequent eerie occurrences and unexplained sightings. Nearby, Cattlemen's Fort Worth Steak House features a special like no other, just watch out for flying liquor! From Bonnie and Clyde's old "haunts" to the once notorious Hell's Half Acre, Fort Worth is filled with historic spots rumored to play host to lingering ghosts and specters.

Home for Erring and Outcast Girls

Julie Kibler
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls Book PDF

Author : Julie Kibler
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451499356

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Home for Erring and Outcast Girls by Julie Kibler Pdf

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen girls,” and inspired by historical events. “Home for Erring and Outcast Girls deftly reimagines the wounded women who came seeking a second chance and a sustaining hope.”—Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between Dallas and Fort Worth’s red-light districts, the progressive home bucks public opinion by offering faith, training, and rehabilitation to prostitutes, addicts, unwed mothers, and “ruined” girls without forcibly separating mothers from children. When Lizzie Bates and Mattie McBride meet there—one sick and abused, but desperately clinging to her young daughter, the other jilted by the beau who fathered her ailing son—they form a friendship that will see them through unbearable loss, heartbreak, difficult choices, and ultimately, diverging paths. A century later, Cate Sutton, a reclusive university librarian, uncovers the hidden histories of the two troubled women as she stumbles upon the cemetery on the home’s former grounds and begins to comb through its archives in her library. Pulled by an indescribable connection, what Cate discovers about their stories leads her to confront her own heartbreaking past, and to reclaim the life she thought she'd let go forever. With great pathos and powerful emotional resonance, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls explores the dark roads that lead us to ruin, and the paths we take to return to ourselves.

The Other Half of Happy

Rebecca Balcárcel
The Other Half of Happy Book PDF

Author : Rebecca Balcárcel
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452170008

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The Other Half of Happy by Rebecca Balcárcel Pdf

Quijana is a girl in pieces. One-half Guatemalan, one-half American: When Quijana's Guatemalan cousins move to town, her dad seems ashamed that she doesn't know more about her family's heritage. One-half crush, one-half buddy: When Quijana meets Zuri and Jayden, she knows she's found true friends. But she can't help the growing feelings she has for Jayden. One-half kid, one-half grown-up: Quijana spends her nights Skyping with her ailing grandma and trying to figure out what's going on with her increasingly hard-to-reach brother. In the course of this immersive and beautifully written novel, Quijana must figure out which parts of herself are most important, and which pieces come together to make her whole. This lyrical debut from Rebecca Balcárcel is a heartfelt poetic portrayal of a girl growing up, fitting in, and learning what it means to belong.