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Hell's Half Acre : The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District / Richard F. Selcer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Selcer, Richard F.
- Series:
- Chisholm Trail Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--Texas--Fort Worth--History.
- Violence.
- Prostitution--Texas--Fort Worth--History.
- Prostitution.
- Fort Worth (Tex.)--Social conditions.
- Fort Worth (Tex.).
- Fort Worth (Tex.)--History.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (381 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, c1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Hell's Half Acre Key Spots; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine - Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Appendix IV; Appendix V; Appendix VI; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-340) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781283971676
- 1283971674
- 9780875655116
- 0875655114
- OCLC:
- 821177773
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