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Richard Selcer, the author of Hell’s Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District, will tell the story of Fort Worth, Texas’s infamous late-19th-century red-light district. Mr. Selcer will detail the saloons, gambling halls, and brothels that catered to cowboys and famous figures like Wyatt Earp and Butch Cassidy. The program will separate fact from fiction, exploring the district’s role in the city’s economy and its eventual decline as the cattle trade gave way to other commerce. Hell’s Half Acre remains a popular chapter of Old West history.

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