Literary Fort Worth

by ALTER JUDY (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780875652603
• ISBN10: 0875652603
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

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-kn

Table of Contents

An Argumentative Introduction: Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?	xiii
James Ward Lee
Acknowledgments	xxi
Judy Alter
Phyllis Allen	1	(13)
Micayla's Gathering
Judy Alter	14	(16)
From A Ballad for Sallie
Sue Ellen Learns to Dance
Patrick Anderson	30	(4)
From Lords of the Earth
Ann Arnold	34	(15)
From Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth's Jacksboro Highway in the 1944s and 1950s
Phillip Atlee	49	(4)
From The Inheritors
Scott Barker	53	(12)
Suite 850
William D. Barney	65	(15)
Mr. Harold Taft
Mr. Watts and the Whirlwind
Oak Leaves Blowing at Mount Olivet
Showdown at the Amon Carter
The Lady and the Calliope
The Slide
Tincey
From Words from a Wide Land
Michael Blackman	80	(8)
Stock Show Trip Teaches Lessons in Life
Sam B. Cantey III	88	(5)
From A Bank and a Shoal of Time
Gary Cartwright	93	(7)
Delbert McClinton: Twenty-Five Years of One-Night Stands
Stop the Press!
Tony Clark	100	(6)
The Devil in Fort Worth, Texas
The Forest Park Zoo Caper
Mike Cochran	106	(18)
Thunder Road
Bizarre for the Course
Texas vs. Davis: New, Sensational Discovery
Westover Hills 76107
Betsy Feagan Colquitt	124	(14)
The Healing
Fairmount-pre-gentrification
Joe Coomer	138	(5)
From The Loop
Jim Corder	143	(4)
World War II on Cleckler Street
Carlos Cuellar	147	(3)
From Stories from the Barrio: A History of Mexican Fort Worth
Neil Daniel	150	(2)
Neighborhood
Jeffery DeLotto	152	(3)
Moncrief Radiation Center
A Mockingbird Near Elizabeth Hall
Tom Dodge	155	(2)
The Man Who Lives on Weather
George Dolan	157	(2)
He'd Walk a Mile for His Camel
Frank Elser	159	(5)
From The Keen Desire
Bill Fairley	164	(9)
Jazz Was Jumpin' at the Jim Hotel
Remembering the Gangster Days
It's with Good Reason that the Tallest Bur Oak in Texas is called The Hangin' Tree
Western Hills Hotel was a National Draw
Dave Ferman	173	(7)
The Routes of Rock: The Clubs, the Schools, and the Cafeteria where Fort Worth Music History Was Made
Jerry Flemmons	180	(25)
Smiting a Sinful World
The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America
Amon's Will Be Done
And Flights of Harlots Sing Thee to Thy Rest
Julia Kathryn Garrett	205	(9)
From Fort Worth: A Frontier Triumph
A.W. Gray	214	(3)
From Prime Suspect
Jeff Guinn	217	(3)
From When Panthers Roared: The Fort Worth Cats and Minor League Baseball
Richard Haddaway	220	(3)
From Where the River Bends
Roy Hamric	223	(1)
For Dead Tom Copeland
Boyce House	224	(3)
Beauty is Elsewhere
Fort Worth
Dan Jenkins	227	(14)
From Baja Oklahoma
From Fast Copy
Cecil Johnson	241	(6)
From Guts: Legendary Black Rodeo Cowboy Bill Pickett
Jan Jones	247	(7)
From Billy Rose Presents...Casa Manana
Bud Kennedy	254	(9)
Brooklyn Heights-The Name Is Gone, but Memories Remain
Fifty-seven Years of Burgers, Done Leta's Way
The Last Call for Law and Disorder at the Albatross
Dave Kuhne	263	(10)
Magic Coins
Lloyd ``Cissy'' Stewart Lale	273	(5)
From Thistle Hill, The History and the House
From Sweetie Ladd's Historic Fort Worth
James Ward Lee	278	(18)
Fort Worth in.the Sixties
A West Side Story
Larry McMurtry	296	(3)
From Horseman, Pass By
Phillip J. Meek	299	(7)
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Where the West Begins
Jay Milner	306	(5)
From Fort Worth that IS the Cowtown-Without Cows
Margaret Moseley	311	(3)
From Grinning in His Mashed Potatoes
David Murph	314	(8)
From an unpublished memoir
J'Nell Pate	322	(5)
From North of the River, A Brief History of North Fort Worth
Clay Reynolds	327	(4)
From A Hundred Years of Heroes: A History of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show
Joyce Gibson Roach	331	(7)
Fort Worth Through the Storefront Windows
Carol Roark	338	(3)
The Reeder School
Bob Ray Sanders	341	(4)
From Credit Union Is Needed Because of Banks' Greed
Riverside Was Special Then, and Is Becoming So Again
Leonard Sanders	345	(9)
From Fort Worth, a Novel
Richard Schroeder	354	(3)
From Texas Signs On: The Early Days of Radio and Television
Edwin ``Bud'' Shrake	357	(9)
From But Not For Love
Johnny Simons	366	(4)
From Cowtown
From Old River High
Joan Hewatt Swaim	370	(13)
Ghost of Christmas Past
War in Our Time
University Drive
You Can't Get There from Here
Of Time and The Drag
J. C. Terrell	383	(4)
From Reminiscences of the Early Days of Fort Worth
Thomas Thompson	387	(6)
From Celebrity
Jim Trinkle	393	(4)
This Emerald Season
By Dawn's Early Light, It Looks Sleepy
Hollace Ava Weiner	397	(3)
From Jewish Stars in Texas
June Rayfield Welch	400	(3)
From And Here's To Charley Boyd
Sheila Taylor Wells	403	(7)
Colonial Parkway
Where the Western Begins
Permissions	410