Fort Worth Stories Volume 4

Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.

Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 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.

Author : Harold Rich
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.

Author : Carlos Eliseo Cuéllar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 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.

Author : Patrick Brantlinger,William Thesing
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470997208

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A Companion to the Victorian Novel by Patrick Brantlinger,William Thesing Pdf

The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period. Explains issues such as Victorian religions, class structure, and Darwinism to those who are unfamiliar with them. Comprises original, accessible chapters written by renowned and emerging scholars in the field of Victorian studies. Ideal for students and researchers seeking up-to-the-minute coverage of contexts and trends, or as a starting point for a survey course.

Author : J'Nell L. Pate
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 087565133X

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North of the River by J'Nell L. Pate Pdf

In 1848 the York and Gilmore families stopped their covered wagons north of the Trinity River near present-day Fort Worth. A century and a half later, the settlement they founded is North Fort Worth, with a colorful history centered around livestock, tourism, and family life. After the Civil War, life often revolved around massive cattle drives passing through North Fort Worth. Later, stockyards were built and the meat packing industry boomed, attracting thousands of people from around the world - Austria, Greece, Russia, Mexico, and Poland. North Fort Worth is now incorporated within the city of Fort Worth and continues to contribute a unique history and atmosphere essential to one of Texas' most diverse and fascinating cities.

Author : Harry Whittington
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781434406279

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Paperback Quarterly (Vol. 4 No. 2) Summer 1981 by Harry Whittington Pdf

Paperback Quarterly, journal of mass-market paperback history, Volume 4 Number 2, Summer 1981, contains: "Fires That Create -- The Versatility and Craft of Harry Whittington," by Michael S. Barson, "Interview with Harry Whittington," by Michael S. Barson, "Modern Age Books and the John Esteven Mystery," by Angela Andrews, "Soft Cover Sketches: Lou Marchetti," by Thomas L. Bonn and "The European Paperback Prelude," by Piet Schreuders.

Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875655116

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Hell's Half Acre by Richard F. Selcer Pdf

Texas is a place where legends are made, die, and are revived. Fort Worth, Texas, claims its own legend – Hell’s Half Acre – a wild ’n woolly accumulation of bordellos, cribs, dance houses, saloons, and gambling parlors. Tenderloin districts were a fact of life in every major town in the American West, but Hell’s Half Acre – its myth and its reality – can be said to be a microcosm of them all. The most famous and infamous westerners visited the Acre: Timothy (“Longhair Jim”) Courtright, Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, Mary Porter, Etta Place, along with Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch, and many more. For civic leaders and reformers, the Acre presented a dilemma – the very establishments they sought to close down or regulate were major contributors to the local economy. Controversial in its heyday and receiving new attention by such movies as Lonesome Dove, Hell’s Half Acre remains the subject of debate among historians and researchers today. Richard Selcer successfully separates fact from fiction, myth from reality, in this vibrant study of the men and women of Cowtown’s notorious Acre.

Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.

Author : Richard F. Selcer,Kevin Foster
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,8 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.

Author : Jill Galvan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801457388

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The Sympathetic Medium by Jill Galvan Pdf

The nineteenth century saw not only the emergence of the telegraph, the telephone, and the typewriter but also a fascination with séances and occult practices like automatic writing as a means for contacting the dead. Like the new technologies, modern spiritualism promised to link people separated by space or circumstance; and like them as well, it depended on the presence of a human medium to convey these conversations. Whether electrical or otherworldly, these communications were remarkably often conducted—in offices, at telegraph stations and telephone switchboards, and in séance parlors—by women. In The Sympathetic Medium, Jill Galvan offers a richly nuanced and culturally grounded analysis of the rise of the female medium in Great Britain and the United States during the Victorian era and through the turn of the century. Examining a wide variety of fictional explorations of feminine channeling (in both the technological and supernatural realms) by such authors as Henry James, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, and George Du Maurier, Galvan argues that women were often chosen for that role, or assumed it themselves, because they made at-a-distance dialogues seem more intimate, less mediated. Two allegedly feminine traits, sympathy and a susceptibility to automatism, enabled women to disappear into their roles as message-carriers.Anchoring her literary analysis in discussions of social, economic, and scientific culture, Galvan finds that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century feminization of mediated communication reveals the challenges that the new networked culture presented to prevailing ideas of gender, dialogue, privacy, and the relationship between body and self.

Author : Charlotte Laughlin,Billy C. Lee
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781434403735

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Paperback Quarterly (Vol. 4 No. 4) Winter 1981 by Charlotte Laughlin,Billy C. Lee Pdf

Paperback Quarterly, the Journal of Mass-Market Paperback History, Volume 4, Number 4, Winter 1981, contains: "Leon Skimin -- Paperback Pioneer," by Michael S. Barson, "Interview with Leon Shimkin," by Michael S. Barson, "Ace Science Fiction Special Series," by Bill Crider, "The Destroyer Series," by Will Murray, "Skeleton Covers," by Bill Crider, "Elements of Success," by Thomas L. Bonn, and "The World's Great Novels of Detection," by Don Hensley.

Author : Tom Fegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 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.

Author : ROBERT CHAMBERS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA: A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE NEW EDITION VOL. IV by ROBERT CHAMBERS Pdf

Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0875650880

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Hell's Half Acre by Richard F. Selcer Pdf

Includes material on Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, and Butch Cassiday.