Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth's Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s & 1950s

By Ann Arnold

Book Overview

A gripping account of rampant crime in Fort Worth, Texas during the 1930s, through the 1950s, with hoodlums, gamblers, murderers, dopers, pimps and lawmen on the take. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571682503
• ISBN13: 9781571682505
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Eakin Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Jacksboro Highway

We enjoyed this book because we remembered hearing about alot of this in the 60's and remember seeing where it all took place. We had borrowed the book and left it on an airplane, so then we had to buy one to return to the person we borrowed it from.

They say this is the way it was

From looking at other books on this area for the twenties and thirties, this rings true. And it's well done.

Fabulous Book for Everyone.

I loved this book. My new novel, Texas Poker Wisdom, has stories about Benny Binion on the gambling wars of Dallas and Ft. Worth. I knew Benny Binion. The world that Ms. Archer describes so very well might come as a surprise to your ordinary folks. This is one fantastic read. Everyone will enjoy it. I write about gambling and am working on an article about Benny Binion's great promotions. One promotion from this book was to have a sign on a pet burro that said follow me to this Mexican restaurant/crap game. They would let the burro loose in a different part of Ft. Worth each day. It would walk on home, a moving sign. I promise you that you will love this book. Johnny HughesTexas Poker Wisdom

gangsters and gamblers of 1940 & 1950 jacksboro hwy fort wor

this is a very interesting book especially for those of us who live in fort worth texas. all kinds of neat facts about one of our most popular highways. all about the gangsters and gamblers. ann arnold did a fantastic job on writing it.

Adventures in Fort Worth history

Dr Arnold does an excellent job of taking hold of a sizable hunk of Fort Worth history and recording it in a very readable fashion. A number of pictures are also included to help visualize the antics of early Fort Worth residents (and visitors).