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Fort Worth: A Texas Original! (Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series)

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Illustrated with occasional historic photographs ranging from the Tarrant County Courthouse under construction in 1895, to the Fort Worth Medical College opening in 1893, to Meacham Field in 1937, and the Light Crust Doughboys Western swing band in the 1940s, Fort Worth is a descriptive history of an amazing Texas community and its people from it's days as a military outpost on the banks of the Trinity, to it evolution into the Dallas/Forth Worth Metroplex. Ably researched and written by Fort Worth native son Richard Selcer, this historical survey of Fort Worth's history is one of leadership with men and women of vision building a flourishing community at a river crossing on the north Texas plains through the troubled times of the 1850s, the years of the Civil War, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the economic difficulties of the 1970s. Fort Worth is a unique and very welcome addition to American History reference collections.