Julia Kathryn Garrett - Fort Worth: a frontier triumph
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I dedicate to the Junior Historians of the 1940s and 1950s, and to all youths this chronicle of facts and legends with the hope that it reveals a historical truth: men should develop an awareness that world and national events do influence their lives.
Copyright 1972 The Encino Press
Foreword and Index copyright 1996 Texas Christian University Press
Reprinted with permission of Encino Press and William Wittliff
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Garrett, Julia Kathryn. Fort Worth : a frontier triumph / Julia Kathryn Garrett p. cm. Facsim. of: Austin, Tex.: Encino Press, 1972 Includes bibliographical references (p. 341) and index ISBN 0-87565-155-0 1. Fort Worth (Tex.) -History. I. Title F394.F7G37 1996 976.4'5315-dc20 95-38125 CIP
1996 facsimile edition made possible by the generosity of Virginia R. Wagnon. First edition made possible by the generosity of former students of the author: Mrs. John M. Griffith, Jr. (Martha Leonard), Mrs. Leleand A. Hodges, Jr. (Ann Leonard), Miss Miranda Leonard, Mrs. Raymond A. Pittman, Jr. (Sue Rowan), Mrs. Madelon Leonard Mariotti, Mrs. George B. Vaughan (Dianne Garrett). In this manner they expressed their appreciation for having had the opportunity of studying under Miss Garrett at Arlington Heights High School.
The index for the 1996 edition of this volume was compiled by Carol Roark. Text design: William Wittliff Jacket design: Margie Adkins.
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PREFACE
BOOKS are written through visionary wisdom of others. They embolden a writer to remain steadfast until his work is completed.
For eleven years my manuscript was reposited on a shelf in the Fort Worth Public Library until Jenkins Garrett, by constant insistence that I complete the work, and through generous guarantees that the manuscript would be published, has brought this chronicle into existence.
The manuscript was written in response to an impelling request by Mary Daggett Lake, now immortal, for a popularized story of Fort Worth. She possessed an intense consciousness of responsibility to nurture the traditions of our city. This awareness of an inherited trust arose from a sensitive perception of the beauties and potential splendors of the bluffs rimming our valley at the forks of the Trinity, and from a knowledge of the historical experiences of America that had taken place here.
Because her insight into the evidence that the splendors of nature and the actions of man are interwoven, she dedicated her life to preserving both the history and nature's glories of this area. She left to posterity trails of beauty in the parks of the city and an archive of Fort Worth history that she spent her life gathering, which is now the property of the Fort Worth Public Library.
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As a child she lived with the historymakers of our city and spent days riding in a buggy with her great-uncle Captain Ephraim Merrill Daggett, as he pointed out historical sites and enacted the epoch-making events of Fort Worth which he knew firsthand. As an adult, she spent years visiting the first hundred pioneers, guiding them to write their autobiographies or reminiscences. From these accounts by pioneers along with their scrapbooks and her library of rare books came much of the material for this homespun chronicle.
The Junior Historians of Arlington Heights and Paschal high schools, as chapters of the Texas State Historical Association, were another compelling force. Many Junior Historians were descendants of the pioneers. Their zeal in preparing the biographies of their forebears for publication in the Junior Historian, now the Texas Historian magazine, was an inspiring directive to me.
In writing this narrative of human experiences, life in our area of the upper Trinity is reviewed from the time of Spanish explorations of this region in the eighteenth century until the closing years of the era of Reconstruction in 1872. At that time, the economy was firmly laid and political rights were restored to veterans and local officials of the former Confederacy, climaxing a period in the birth and blooming of Fort Worth.
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