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 ...
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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.
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Very Good. Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District (Chisholm Trail Series) by Richard F Selcer Hardcover Cloth 364 pages Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket Presumed First edition 1991 Attractive illustrated wraps on this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates Slight shelf wear Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy Laid in bookmark and clippings Texas is a place where legends are made, die, and are revived Fort Worth, Texas, claims its own legend? Ητ Hell's Half Acre? Ητ a wild 'n woolly accumulation of bordellos, cribs, dance houses, saloons, and gambling parlorsTenderloin districts were a fact of life in every major town in the American West, but Hell's Half Acre? Ητ its myth and its reality? Ητ can be said to be a microcosm of them all The most famous and infamous westerners visited the 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? Ητ the very establishments they sought to close down or regulate were major contributors to the local economyControversial 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 364 pp.
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