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'''Fort Worth''' is a city in [[Texas]] and has a population of 653,000. It forms part of a single metropolitan area with the neighboring city of [[Dallas]]. Local lore has created a legendary version of Fort Worth as an isolated frontier outpost complete with rugged dragoons, land barons, hostile Indians, and famous visitors.
'''Fort Worth''' Texas bills itself as the "City where the West Begins". With a population of 653,000, it forms part of a single metropolitan area with the neighboring city of [[Dallas]]. The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area reached 6,145,000 million population in 2007 and ranks #6 in size in the U.S. Local lore has created a legendary version of Fort Worth as an isolated frontier outpost complete with rugged dragoons, land barons, hostile Indians, and famous visitors.
[[Image:Dallas-1905rr.jpg|thumb|550px|Dallas-Ft. Worth area in 1905; the solid line is the inter-urban trolley]]
==Transportation==
==Transportation==
The railroad enabled Fort Worth to build the largest cattle stockyards in the West. The big national meatpackers Armour and Swift arrived in 1902. The local butchers struck during the nationwide strike by the Amalgamated Butcher Workman Union against the 'Big Five' meat packers of Chicago during 1921-22. The strike failed, devastating the union; skilled workers were able to go back to their jobs, though many unskilled laborers could not.
As a transportation hub, the city had a notorious red light district. The prostitutes worked in parlor houses, dance halls, or independent shacks, did not make much more money than a local domestic servant, were subject to arrest in periodic crackdowns, suffered from disease, and frequently committed suicide.<ref> Richard F. Selcer, "Fort Worth and the Fraternity of Strange Women," ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly'' 1992 96(1): 54-86, </ref>
[[File:Ft-Worth-Tx-1909.jpg|thumb|250px|The railroad station in 1909]]
[[File:Ft-Worth-Tx-1909.jpg|thumb|250px|The railroad station in 1909]]
==Conservatives==
==Conservatives==
Ida Darden published the conservative weekly newspaper ''Southern Conservative'' from 1950 to 1961. Her early political views were influenced by Texas senator Joe Bailey, who opposed women's suffrage, taxes, labor unions, prohibition, and Woodrow Wilson. The ''Southern Conservative'' championed anti-Communist politicians such as Senator Joe McCarthy and excoriated civil rights, minorities, unions, the UN, and the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. Funded by a few wealthy Texas businessmen, the newspaper struggled financially and ended in 1961, when Darden left to care for her terminally ill only child.<ref> George N. Green, "Ida Darden and the ''Southern Conservative''", ''Gulf South Historical Review'' 2001 16(2): 6-33</ref>
Ida Darden published the conservative weekly newspaper ''Southern Conservative'' from 1950 to 1961. Her early political views were influenced by Texas senator Joe Bailey, who opposed women's suffrage, taxes, labor unions, prohibition, and Woodrow Wilson. The ''Southern Conservative'' championed anti-Communist politicians such as Senator Joe McCarthy and excoriated civil rights, minorities, unions, the UN, and the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. Funded by a few wealthy Texas businessmen, the newspaper struggled financially and ended in 1961, when Darden left to care for her terminally ill only child.<ref> George N. Green, "Ida Darden and the ''Southern Conservative''", ''Gulf South Historical Review'' 2001 16(2): 6-33</ref>
==Sports==
After 1957 the city collaborated with Dallas to attract a major league team. Though civic and structural preparations fell into place rather quickly, Byzantine political processes frustrated the acquisition of a team to represent Texas. The Washington Senators' relocation in 1972 finally fulfilled the community's aspirations.
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/FF/hdf1.html article in ''Handbook of Texas'']
* [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/FF/hdf1.html article in ''Handbook of Texas'']
* Hankins, Barry. ''God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism'' (1996)
* Hankins, Barry. ''God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism'' (1996)
* Oates, Paula, ed. ''Celebrating 150 Years: The Pictorial History of Fort Worth, Texas, 1849-1999'' (1999). 226 pp.
* Oates, Paula, ed. ''Celebrating 150 Years: The Pictorial History of Fort Worth, Texas, 1849-1999'' (1999). 226 pp.
* Pate, J'nell L. ''Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887-1987'' (1988) 332 pp
* Rich, Harold W. "Beyond Outpost: Fort Worth, 1880-1918" PhD dissertation Texas Christian U. 2006; Dissertation Abstracts International; 67(2): 693-A. DA3207513, 319p.
* Rich, Harold W. "Beyond Outpost: Fort Worth, 1880-1918" PhD dissertation Texas Christian U. 2006; Dissertation Abstracts International; 67(2): 693-A. DA3207513, 319p.
* Sanders, Leonard. ''How Fort Worth Became the Texasmost City, 1849-1920'' (1986) 201 pp.
* Selcer, Richard F. "Setting the Record Straight: Fort Worth and the Historians," ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly'' 1997 100(3): 361-379,
* Selcer, Richard F. "Setting the Record Straight: Fort Worth and the Historians," ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly'' 1997 100(3): 361-379,
* Sherrod, Katie, ed. ''Grace and Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women'' (2007). 308 pp.
* Sherrod, Katie, ed. ''Grace and Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women'' (2007). 308 pp.