Jumat, 19 Januari 2018

Wild West Book Review: Fort Worth Characters

Fort Worth Characters by Richard F. Selcer, University of North Texas Press, Denton, 2009, $34.95 ($14.95 paperback). Richard Selcer, a Fort Worth character in his own right, previously wrote a book (Hell’s Half-Acre) about the old red-light district of his fair city. Madam Mary Porter, who appeared in that work, raises her skirts again here …

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