Fort Worth Stories by Richard F. Selcer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selcer, Richard F., author.

Series:

Texas local series ; Number 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fort Worth (Tex.)--History.

Texas--Fort Worth.

Texas.

Fort Worth (Tex.).

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Book is collection of historical stories about Fort Worth, Texas, beginning in the 1840s and reaching the present day. Stories are chosen from typical events in Fort Worth that usually don't make it into traditional history books"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Comanche Raid That Never Happened

Longhair Jim Courtright: Legendary Marshal, Terrible Witness

Hogs Rule in Cowtown

Fort Worth Learns to Bathe

"Sign Us Up!" Fort Worthers Dig Deep for Their Town

Forgotten Hero of the Texas Spring Palace Fire

The Devil in Cowtown

Death on the Tracks

When Men Were Men and Women Were the "Fairer Sex"

Fort Worth: Candy-making Capital of the Southwest

It's About Horsepower, Not Horse Flesh

Market Day

Jewel Heist at Thistle Hill

When is a Miranda Warning not a Miranda Warning?

President Roosevelt Plants a Tree

The Protestant Sanitarium and the Beginnings of the South Side Medical District

Fort Worth an Aggie Outpost?

Murder at the Metropolitan Hotel

Don't Divorce 'em, lock 'em up

That's No Lady; That's My Lawyer!

America's Dance King Becomes Fort Worth Flyboy

Amon Carter is Rejected by the Masons

Redemption for a Tired Mistreated Building?

Harry Houdini Appeared in Fort Worth Twice!

When Gutzon Borglum Came to Town and Robert E. Lee Almost Did

Goodbye, Fort Worth, "Hello, Sucker!"

Public Enemy No. 1 Nabbed in Fort Worth

The Green Book Guide to Fort Worth

Dark Days on Both Sides of the Trinity

A Tale of Two Ritzes

Fort Worth Gets Air-conditioned

Those Old Neighborhood Movie Houses Bring Back Memories.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781574418309

1574418300

OCLC:

1242107738