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

by Richard F. Selcer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875650880
• ISBN13: 9780875650883
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Good

Received item quickly and in condition as stated. Author autographed my book at a meeting in Ft Worth, has photos and articles about relatives. Very interesting.

My hometown

It could be your hometown too, if you grew up in the west. A good history,(well-researched)that pulls no punches about the unsavory characters and rough life of the old west.

Best book on Old West Fort Worth ever!

Without a doubt, the best book on the old west history of Ft. Worth, naming names, and places where the action was. Selcer covers it all, from the smallest saloons and big outfits, to the big name gamblers and shady ladies, to the reformers. Locations, descriptions...get ready for a trip in time, you won't be able to put it down. Yeeeeee -Haaawwwww! Lovin it!!

Foat Wuth Ah Lov Yew

Selcer has produced an historical account of Fort Worth's early years, and the relationship of vice to its growth. I found the book difficult to put down until I had read each sordid detail.You want the truth about the good old days, back when times were simpler? Selcer will give it to you, in spades, enjoy them, and reflect on the lives of our great grandparents.