Fort Worth Characters 2 Volume 10

""The book is well written and easy to read . . . It is simply about twenty-five largely forgotten characters throughout Fort Worth's history. And if the reader understands that going in, I think they will find the book to be superb.""--Wild West History Association Journal ""A fun, informative, and engaging read from cover to cover.""--Midwest Book Review ""Selcer . . . has established himself as the official chronicler of Fort Worth history--and a fantastic storyteller to boot.""--Fort Worth Magazine ""Selcer has perfected the short profile format for Fort Worth history. His judgments of his subjects are based on solid research. He is very good at finding the humanity, in all of its ups and downs, in each subject. He is a meticulous researcher who pays enormous attention to detail.""--Quentin McGown, author of Remembering Fort Worth and Historic Photos of Fort Worth ""Richard Selcer is a known quantity, and Fort Worth Characters 2 fits easily into his body of work, especially since it is an expansion of an earlier publication. Selcer probably has cornered and dominated the market on Fort Worth personalities.""--Harold Rich, author of Fort Worth: Outpost, Cowtown, Boomtown and Fort Worth between the World Wars ""This sparkling book brings to vivid life infamous Fort Worth characters like married Mayor Williams S. Pendleton, who had an affair with a 19-year-old girl, and some who should be famous, like Sammie Howard, undercover cop. Historian Richard Selcer's stories about Fort Worth's first Chinese entrepreneurs, the African American power couple Manet Harrison and James Fowler, and little-known Black hero Jesse Williams of the Spring Palace Fire are especially good. Selcer again showcases his writing and research par excellence skills.""--Richard J. Gonzales, author of Raza Rising