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Where the (Wild) West Begins

Here are posts about Fort Worth’s wild West history:

Marshal Jim: Cowtown’s First Citizen or First Gangster? (Part 1)
The Bottle, the Badge, and the Caduceus: Jim Courtright Would Live to Die Another Day
The Great Escape (Part 1): When the Jury Is a Mob
“He Died With His Boots On”: Bad Blood and the Luck of the Draw
Christmas in the Acre: “Jingle Bells, Shotgun Shells, Mayhem All the Way”
Luke Short Folds: The Quiet Death of a Gunfighting Gambler
Verbatim: “I Could See That Sam Was in Bad Shape”
Connections: From Buckboard to Concorde (Part 1)
Double Trouble: The Burrow Gang and the Train Twice-Robbed (Part 1)
Threepeat on Mary’s Creek: “Posses in Hot Pursuit”
A Woman of Grit (Part 1): Immigrant, Prisoner, Escapee
Once Upon a Dime in the West: “[Ring, Ring] You’re Dead”
The O.K. Corral: 5 Cowboys, 4 Lawmen, and 1 Brother Who Said, “I Think I Can Hang Them”
Road Hazard: Transport Crime in the 1870s
Verbatim: The Many Miles of Red Wolf—From Hollywood to the County Home
In the Line of Duty (Part 1): “He Sees Naught of the Danger There”
Ambush at Dry Creek: Brothers in Arms, Brothers in Irons
Death Wore a Long Black Coat (Part 1): “You Die Right Here”

(Artwork by Frederic Remington, 1897.)

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