Table of Contents: “…The curious story of Brevet Major Ripley Arnold -- Legendary Marshal Timothy Isaiah Courtright -- Hagar Tucker: Fort Worth's black policeman -- Marshal Sam Farmer: Fort Worth's first professional peace officer -- Al Hayne: the people's hero -- The strange case of Maggie Tewmey -- Black sheep Jeff Daggett -- Quanah Parker: Fort Worth's adopted native son -- Wayward policeman Thomas Finch -- Crazy Mary Rea: "a real corker" -- Madam Mary Porter: Mary, Mary quite contrary -- James W. …”
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Subjects: “…National Council of Jewish Women. -- Fort Worth Section.…”
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Table of Contents: “…A fort began begins the military tradition -- World War I: Three airfields -- World War I: Camp Bowie -- Local aviation between the wars -- World War II: The bomber plant -- World War II: Air power: At Fort Worth Army Air Field -- World War II: Training command and more -- Locally owned Globe aircraft -- Bell helicopters -- The sound of freedom: Carswell and beyond -- Air Force Plant 4: General Dynamics to Lockheed Martin -- Military impact.…”
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Table of Contents: “…McLaury -- Buchanan County, Iowa -- The McLaury brothers in Arizona -- Will McLaury, attorney-at-law -- The Arizona frontier -- "My name is well known in Arizona" -- Border crime -- Politics of Arizona and Tombstone -- "More havoc than Apaches" -- The vexed question -- "The grave situation on the border" -- Vengeful schemes -- Summer storms -- Loss in Fort Worth -- Deadly ambush -- "Glad you are on the alert" -- Open hostilities -- Indian summer -- "Throw up your hands" -- "Hurled into eternity" -- A charge of murder -- "This don't bring back my dead brothers -- "The cause of the murder was this" -- "I do not like your letter" -- "And tales of broken faith" -- "I knew they were all down on you" -- Habeas corpus -- "They would shoot a fellow to see him fall" -- "None of the results is satisfactory" -- Epilogue: Three McLaury brothers.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: My Naturalist Mother -- Records -- The Other Fort Worth Basses -- On Willow Creek -- Deer Camp -- This Year's Hunt -- The Deer Pasture -- The Silent Language -- A Texas Childhood -- Colter's Creek Buck -- Aoudads -- Mary Katherine's First Deer -- Credits.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The three families: Settling in antebellum Texas -- Migrating to a new frontier: the Texas Panhandle -- Amarillo, 1910: John Beal, Lena--and Al -- A secret too big to keep -- "Let the old men settle it" -- A man with a plan -- Escape, flight, and pursuit -- The gathering storm -- Then the killings begin -- To the courts -- From guns to gavels -- Lena's sanity hearing -- "The greatest legal battle ever" -- The 1912 Fort Worth murder trial of John Beal Sneed -- Protecting a home, or protecting a killer? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Bonnie and Clyde slept here : on the trail of the Barrow Gang -- Four brothers in crime : the Newton Boys, express car and bank robbers of Uvalde -- The Southern Pacific payroll robbery in El Paso : an attempted heist, the murder of an innocent man, and an international prisoner exchange -- Becky Rogers, the flapper bandit -- The Stanton frame-up : killing blameless men for a bounty -- The Santa Claus Bank Robbery -- Captain Charlie and the Rum King of San Antonio -- The Urschel kidnapping : Machine Gun Kelly's foray into Texas -- The Texas and Pacific mail robbery in Fort Worth : robbery, cold-blooded murder, and incarceration on Alcatraz -- The unsolved murder of Frank Nand Singh: immigrant smuggling on the Mexican border in the 1930s -- The Post morphine ring : dope dealing at the edge of the Caprock -- The greatest medical charlatan of them all : Dr. …”
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