Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District Volume 9 by Selcer, Richard F.

Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District Volume 9

Texas is a place where legends are made, die, and are revived. Fort Worth, Texas, claims its...
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Author: Richard F. Selcer
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Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District Volume 9 by Selcer, Richard F.

Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District Volume 9

CHF 30.25

Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District Volume 9

CHF 30.25
Author: Richard F. Selcer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Richard F. Selcer
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Published: 01/01/1991
Pages: 364
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.00w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780875650883

About the Author
Richard F. Selcer, a Fort Worth native, is the author of seven books on Western and Civil War history. He teaches history at Cedar Valley College in Dallas, at Tarrant County Community College, and at the International Christian University in Vienna, Austria.

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