From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas’s—and the nation’s—largest cities, a thriving center of culture

A revisionist account of the Tejano experience in south Texas from its Spanish colonial roots to 1900.

Describes the Fort Worth Stockyards which was the largest market in the Southwest. Active trading still continues there, but the heyday is passed.

Raised in a one-room log cabin in a small North Texas town, Amon G. Carter (1879–1955) rose to become the founder and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegra