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Informationen zum Autor RICHARD F. SELCER is the author of Fort Worth Characters (UNT Press) and Hell's Half-Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District , and coauthor of Legendary Watering Holes: The Saloons that Made Texas Famous. He is a long-time adjunct professor at Tarrant County College and the International University in Vienna, and resides in Fort Worth. KEVIN S. FOSTER was a Fort Worth police officer for 29 years and a sergeant for more than 22 years. After retiring from the Fort Worth Police Department, he has become a police officer for Texas Christian University. He coauthored with Richard Selcer Written in Blood Volume 1 . A founding member of the Fort Worth Police Historical Association, he is also the research director and chairman of the Fort Worth Police and Firefighters Memorial committee. He lives in Weatherford, Texas. Klappentext A memorial to the men from all branches of local law enforcement who died defending law and order in the early years: policemen! sheriffs! constables! "special officers!” and even a police commissioner. All were larger-than-life characters who took an oath to "preserve and protect” and therefore deserve to be remembered. It tells the stories of thirteen of those early lawmen! starting with Tarrant County Sheriff John B. York in 1861 and going through Fort Worth Police Officer William "Ad” Campbell in 1909. Zusammenfassung In 2010 Written in Blood Volume 1 told the stories of thirteen law officers who died in the line of duty between 1861 and 1909. Now Selcer and Foster are back with Volume 2 covering more line-of-duty deaths. This volume covers 1910 to 1928! as Fort Worth experiences a race riot! lynchings! bushwhacking! assassinations and martial law imposed by the U.S. Army.
