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In 1936 as Texas prepared to celebrate its centennial -- 100 years after the Battle of San Jacinto -- Dallas was chosen as the site of the official exhibition. Plans were under way for a modest Frontier Days Celebration in Fort Worth -- until Star-Telegram publisher and civic booster Amon G. Carter stepped in. Carter considered the naming of Dallas as the official site a gross miscarriage of justice and was determined to get even by mounting a...

In 1936 as Texas prepared to celebrate its centennial -- 100 years after the Battle of San Jacinto -- Dallas was chosen as the site of the official exhibition. Plans were under way for a modest Frontier Days Celebration in Fort Worth -- until Star-Telegram publisher and civic booster Amon G. Carter stepped in. Carter considered the naming of Dallas as the official site a gross miscarriage of justice and was determined to get even by mounting a...

Presents an illustrated history of the showmen, performers, theaters, and events that shaped the city's theatrical fortunes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book chronicles the early amateur theatricals of the 1870s, the development of "Hell's Half Acre" and the opening of Evans Hall, the town's first legitimate theater.