Fort Worth Characters 2
by Richard F. Selcer
University of North Texas Press, 2025
Cloth: 978-1-57441-968-9 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-976-4
Library of Congress Classification F394.F7S4485 2025
Dewey Decimal Classification 976.45315050922
TOC
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Black Lives Do Matter: The Remarkable Pratts
Chapter 2: Frank James Slept Here. No, Really!
Chapter 3: Will McLaury Goes to Tombstone to Bury His Brothers
Chapter 4: Would You Like Egg Roll with Your Steak and Fries?
Chapter 5: Booger Red Privett: The Man and the Saloon
Chapter 6: Fort Worth Abortion Doctor Goes to Prison
Chapter 7: Cato Sells: “Godfather of the Red Man”
Chapter 8: Manet Harrison and James Fowler: America’s First Black “Power Couple”
Chapter 9: B. H. Carroll: The Man and the Legend
Chapter 10: Charles L. Stowe: A Legend in His Own Mind
Chapter 11: Faye Cotton: The Frontier Centennial’s “Sweetheart No. 1”
Chapter 12: The Police Chief and the Showgirl
Chapter 13: Artie Glenn: Crying in a Fort Worth Chapel
Chapter 14: Forget Colonel Tom Parker, Fort Worth Had Major Bill Smith
Chapter 15: Kitty Barry: Fort Worth’s First Female Reporter
Chapter 16: Stansell T. Brogdon: Gadfly or Just a Kook?
Chapter 17: The Gridiron Stars of North Side High School
Chapter 18: Jesse Williams: Forgotten Hero of the Spring Palace Fire
Chapter 19: John Birch: The Man, the Society, and the Preacher
Chapter 20: Mayor William S. Pendleton’s “Fatal Infatuation”
Chapter 21: Sammie Howard: Undercover Policewoman, Pioneering Feminist
Chapter 22: Joseph Z. Wheat: The Man and His Building
Chapter 23: Townes Van Zandt: Fort Worth’s Troubled Troubadour
Chapter 24: The Lady in the Lake: Alias Patricia Ann Harmon
Chapter 25: Bobby Day Tops the Charts
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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