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Richard F. Selcer

Author of Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District

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Richard F. Selcer is the author of Hell's Half-Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District and co-author of Legendary Watering Holes: The Saloons that Made Texas Famous. A long-time adjunct professor at Cedar Valley College and the International University in Vienna, he lives in Fort Worth-of show more course! show less

Works by Richard F. Selcer

Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District (1991) 36 copies

Civil War America, 1850 to 1875 (Almanacs of American Life) (2006) 12 copies

Lee Versus Pickett: Two Divided by War (1998) 12 copies

"Faithfully and forever your soldier": Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA (Farnsworth House commander series) (1995) 10 copies

Fort Worth: A Texas Original! (Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series) (2004) 10 copies

Written in Blood: The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen, Volume 1, 1861-1909 (2010) 10 copies

Fort Worth Characters (2009) 8 copies

Legendary Watering Holes: The Saloons that Made Texas Famous (2004) 7 copies

A History of Fort Worth in Black & White: 165 Years of African-American Life (2015) 4 copies

"Faithfully and Forever Your Soldier" Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA 1 copy

Fort Worth, Texas, That's My Town!: A Young People's History (2023) 1 copy

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MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2003 (2003) — Co-Author "Octogenarian Masters of Maneuver" — 10 copies

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Canonical name: Selcer, Richard F.
Gender: male

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Civil War America (Almanacs of American Life) by Richard F. Selcer

has some fabulous detail on clothing, accidents, and many other things. Covers Mormon pioneer era time wise.

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Mikenielson | Dec 10, 2015 |

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Works: 11
Also by: 1
Members: 111
Popularity: #175,484
Rating: 3.9

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 23
Languages: 1

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