Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth,Texas)

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Between 1870-1917 a notorious district of saloons, brothels, gambling parlors, and (worst of all in the eyes of the respectable citizens of the time) dance halls catering to the cowboys pushing trail drives northward to Kansas. Despite various announcements of clean-up campaigns, authorities generally looked the other way because of the income the illegal activities brought to the city. Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and the Wild Bunch had their photo (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wildbunchlarge.jpg) taken there about 1901, and there is some reason to believe that Etta Place returned to run a brothel and, later, a hotel in Hell's Half Acre under the name Eunice Gray after the death of Butch and the Kid in Bolivia (first making a stop in San Francisco).
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth,_Texas#The_Town
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Coordinates:   32°45'0"N   97°19'37"W

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  • Yeah, I read all about it in a book.
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