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Sep 1, 2022 · Great Lives of Fort Worth: These 173 Fort Worthians shaped an Army camp into a major city over 173 years.
2410531 [6] Website. www.fortworthtexas.gov. Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km 2) into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According to a 2022 United States census estimate, Fort Worth's population was 956,709, the 5th-most populous in the ...
- United States
- William J. Worth
- 541 ft (165 m)
- Texas
After the Mexican–American War. In January 1849, U.S. Army General William Jenkins Worth, a veteran of the Mexican–American War, proposed building ten forts to mark and protect the west Texas frontier, situated from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity River. Worth died on 7 May 1849 from cholera. [4]
May 20, 2010 · The Wild Bunch. 1. The Wild Bunch Marker. Inscription. When professional photographer John Swartz snapped this famous photograph of five young men in 1901, he had no idea it would end up on a “wanted” poster. Swartz and his brothers, considered Fort Worth’s premier photographers, were unaware that the dandily-dressed men were notorious ...
- ‘Laying Low’ in Fort Worth
- An Ill-Considered Pose
- The Portrait Goes Public
- Mug Shot to Manhunt
- Credit Where Credit Is Due
- An Iconic, If Infamous, Image
It all started with the robbery of the First National Bank in Winnemucca, Nev., at noon on September 19, 1900, by a trio of men, members of a gang loosely styled the “Wild Bunch.” The nucleus of the gang consisted of Harvey Logan (aka “Kid Curry”), George “Flat Nose” Currie, Ellsworth “Elzy” Lay, Robert LeRoy Parker (aka “Butch Cassidy”) and Harry ...
For reasons unknown, on November 21, a Wednesday, the boys decided to dress up and have their portrait taken in one of the city’s professional studios. (There is no doubt about this date, as it is printed on the individual mug shots subsequently reproduced for the Pinkerton circulars.) They seem not to have been celebrating any particular occasion,...
Most of the story to this point is conventional. Now, however, the tale enters previously unexplored territory. Wild Bunch aficionados have always claimed that John Swartz placed the photo in his front window, where either a passing Pinkerton operative or Wells Fargo detective recognized the outlaws and arranged to distribute their mug shots across...
How significant was the Fort Worth Five photograph? In August 1902 (Mich.) Times The Bay City did a little early-day “Photoshopping” to pull just Longabaugh and Cassidy out of the original, labeling them “the two most desperate bandits in the country.” Four years later The Lexington (Ky.) Herald reprinted the original portrait but added the known f...
It’s not hard to figure out why the true story behind the famous photo was lost to time. Detective Scott died on April 7, 1902, seven months before local papers broke the story of the outlaws’ historic visit, and by year’s end the gang itself was finished. Authorities in Sonora, Texas, cornered and killed Will Carver on April 2, 1901. Ben Kilpatric...
The parade passed by Charles Scott and John Swartz. The only folks ever to cash in on the Fort Worth Five have been the dealers and collectors who buy and sell the copies of the photograph that occasionally come on the market. No one knows how many first-generation images exist, but everyone agrees it’s a seller’s market. The latest sale of an “ori...
Dec 7, 2020 · In Fort Worth, as cowboys moved cattle north to Kansas, entrepreneurs took advantage of these men looking for a good time. Hell’s Half Acre developed in the late 1870s and served as a stopover location for those seeking a respite from life in the saddle. The Acre was located from 10th Street, south along Throckmorton Avenue to Lancaster ...
Jun 22, 2021 · In 1898, The Boston Traveler said that the West started in the “Middle of Ohio.”. In 1887, The Boston Transcript wrote that the West begins at Batavia, New York. Back in Texas, some felt the answer was environmental. According to some, the West began somewhere between the 100th and 98th meridian of the Great American Desert and the Great ...
