Books written by Richard F. Selcer

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

See, Pat Jahns, The Frontier World of Doc Holliday of Doc Holliday agrees with and Ramon F. Adams, ed., Sixguns and Saddle Leather, A Bibliography. Adams offers a devastating critique ofStanley's book (itemno. 2095).
Civil War America, 1850 To 1875

North Carolina Senators Representatives Willie P.Mangum (W) George E. Badger (W) William S.Ashe (D) Joseph P. ... M. Gaylord Joshua R.Giddings (W) Frederick W.Green (D) Alexander Harper (W) William F. Hunter (W) John Johnson Eben Newton ...
Written in Blood Volume 2: The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen 1910-1928

The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen 1910-1928 Richard F. Selcer, Kevin S. Foster. officers Leon Harmon, Charlie Williams, and W. H. Garrison. Their informant had given them a general location. Now they had to find the action by ...
Written in Blood Volume 2: The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen 1910-1928

Fortunately, Sheriff Nace Mann lived just across the street so she ran to his house to hide. Mann was not there, but she stayed until he came home for lunch. Mann and Yates were old pals as well as fellow lawmen, ...
A History of Fort Worth in Black & White: 165 Years of African-American Life

... 89 Johnson, Jack (boxer), 102, 278, 308 “Galveston Giant,” 277 Johnson, L.V., 433,436–437 Johnson, Lucy Jane, 187 Johnson, Middleton Tate, 18, 20, 46 Johnson, Middleton Tate (continued) “Father of Tarrant County,” 31–32 Johnson, ...
Written in Blood Volume 1: The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen 1861-1909

"This book is a must-read for anyone who enjoys history of good police stories or who wants to honor our fallen lawmen from an era gone by.
Fort Worth Characters

But this is a good starting point.
Fort Worth Stories

It was in 1881 that the Fort Worth Democrat reported, “In the past six months Fort Worth has contributed by public subscription to various enterprises nearly $200,000,” a truly remarkable sum by a town with a population of only about ...
Hell's Half Acre: Life and Legend in a Red-light District

Includes material on Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, and Butch Cassiday.
Photographing Texas: The Swartz Brothers, 1880–1918

In Photographing Texas: The Swartz Brothers, 1880–1918, historian and scholar Richard Selcer gathers a collection of some of the Swartz brothers’ most important images from Fort Worth and elsewhere, few of which have ever been assembled ...
Fort Worth: A Texas Original!

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 Fort that Became a City: An Illustrated Reconstruction of Fort Worth, Texas, 1849-1853

This is an excellent history of Fort Worth, Texas.
Lee Vs. Pickett: Two Divided by War

Lee Vs. Pickett: Two Divided by War
Written in Blood, Volume 1: The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen, 1861-1909

Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster tell the stories of thirteen of those early lawmenOCoan unlucky number to be sure.
"Faithfully and Forever Your Soldier": Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA

"Faithfully and Forever Your Soldier": Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA
Photographing Texas: The Swartz Brothers, 1880–1918

In Photographing Texas: The Swartz Brothers, 1880–1918, historian and scholar Richard Selcer gathers a collection of some of the Swartz brothers’ most important images from Fort Worth and elsewhere, few of which have ever been assembled ...
A History of Fort Worth in Black and White: 165 Years of African-American Life

The antebellum and Civil War years (1849-1865) -- Reconstruction and city beginnings (1865-1879) -- A growing sense of identity (1880-1900) -- The world of Jim Crow (turn-of-the-century through the 1920s) -- World War I: Jim Crow comes ...
Fort Worth Stories, Volume 4

"Book is collection of historical stories about Fort Worth, Texas, beginning in the 1840s and reaching the present day. Stories are chosen from typical events in Fort Worth that usually don't make it into traditional history books"--
Fort Worth: A Texas Original!

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...