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In Hell's Half Acre, historian Richard F. Selcer separates fact from myth and offers a lively study of the tenderloin district that flourished in Fort Worth during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Oliver Knight's Fort Worth: Outpost on the Trinity recounts crime and corruption, civic pride, and community spirit during the city's first hundred years. First published in book form in 1952 and reprinted and updated in 1990.
Fort Worth: A Frontier Triumph by Julia Kathryn Garrett is an anecdotal account of personalities and events that shaped the city's first twenty-five years, from its founding as a frontier fort in 1849 and the departure of the U.S. Army in 1853 to the dramatic arrival of the first railroad train in 1876.
Together these three books present a varied and rich history of the city on the bluff that even today calls itself Cowtown.
