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Category : Fort Worth (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Charter and Revised Ordinances of Fort Worth, Texas, 1906
Author: Charter and Revised Ordinances of Fort Worth, Texas
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Category : Municipal charters and ordinances
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Fort Worth
Author: Fort Worth (Tex.).Publisher:
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Category : Fort Worth (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Fort that Became a City
Author: Richard F. SelcerPublisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 0875651461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This is an excellent history of Fort Worth, Texas. Founded in 1849 as an army outpost in what was then the western frontier of Texas. The soldiers were there to protect settlers. The book features original architectural drawings of what the original fort probably looked like. The illustrator researched the fort through the National Archives and other records and came up with artist's views of the frontier outpost. The accompanying text explains the history of the fort and how it grew into one of the country's great cities.
Special Libraries
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Category : Special libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Also includes 1st-5th SLA triennial salary surveys.
Fort Worth
Author: Richard F. SelcerPublisher: Fred Rider Cotten Popular Hist
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Fort Worth has been called "the City Where the West Begins," "Cowtown," and the silent partner in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. None of these descriptions quite tells the story of this city and its people. Since its founding in the mid-nineteenth century as a military outpost, Fort Worth has gone through many phases--cattle, oil, aviation, and tourist. The little village on the Trinity has grown up to become a global city that is a melting pot of economic forces and diverse cultures. At its most basic, Fort Worth's history is the story of leadership, of how men and women of vision built a flourishing community at a river crossing on the north Texas plains. Through troubled times--the 1850s, the Civil War, the 1930s, the 1970s--the leadership kept its eye on the future. The city pulled itself through the down times--and put itself on the map--by visionary projects like the railroad, the Spring Palace, the Stockyards, Camp Bowie, the Bomber Plant, and Sundance Square. This book helps to put a modern face on Fort Worth, move it out of the shadow of Dallas, and place it firmly in the twenty-first century. The book is illustrated with many historic photographs, including: a pair of Wichita Indians; Main Street in old Fort Worth; the current Tarrant County Courthouse, under construction in 1895; Fort Worth Medical College, opening in 1893 as just the third medical school in Texas; Fort Worth's Meacham Field in its early years (ca. 1926) and Meacham field in 1937; the Boeing B-29 and the Convair B-36 side by side at Carswell Air Force Base; Pig Stand drive-ins; the Fort Worth Cats and their opponents, the Memphis Chicks; the Light Crust Doughboys Western swing band in the 1940s; Six Flags over Texas; the "Bombardier 500" race; William B. McDonald, successful African American businessman and political leader; the Woman's Wednesday Club in its weekly luncheon meeting at the Metropolitan Hotel, 1918; the flood of 1949; Sundance Square, looking west across Main Street in the 1980s; and African American drover Chester Stidham with the "Fort Worth Herd" of longhorns. Also enlivening the text are various sidebars giving detailed information about "Fort Worth's Most Historic Cemeteries," "Courthouse Square," "The Cultural District," "Sundance Square," and "The Historic North Side."
Author: Texas
Author: Texas
Author: Texas
Author: Texas