Title: Hell's half acre : life and legend in a red-light district /
Authors: Selcer, Richard F.
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Prostitution Texas Fort Worth History.; Violence Texas Fort Worth History.; Fort Worth (Tex.) History.; Fort Worth (Tex.) Social conditions.
Abstract: Includes material on Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, and Butch Cassiday.
Contents: Cowboy capers, or 'dress and delight days' -- The wages of sin are a damned sight better than the wages of virtue -- Better undressed than unarmed -- Lord make us good but not right now : the Timothy Courtright years, 1876-1886 -- The gamblers must go -- Ful, they've got me -- Nothing but brick and mortar -- The end of the line.