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Fort Worth in Vintage Postcards

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Fort Worth in Vintage Postcards - McGown, Quentin
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Though Fort Worth was first established in 1849 as a military outpost along what was then the western frontier of Texas, the fort itself was abandoned by 1853. But the civilian settlement that had grown up around it continued to thrive. Following the Civil War, the city and its residents worked hard to become a provisions center for the drovers moving millions of Texas longhorns up the cattle trails to Kansas and beyond. Soon, Fort Worth was also a major hub for rail and other transportation industries, and in the twentieth ...

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Fort Worth in Vintage Postcards 2003, Arcadia Publishing (SC), Charleston, SC

ISBN-13: 9780738528649

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