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First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter leather and black pebble cloth. (Touch of wear to the corners, rubbing along most extremities, two-inch tear to top of spine gutter, minor dust soiling to covers), 4to. 451pp. Top edge gilt, marbled foredge and lower edge. Tight. Illustrated throughout with full-page portraits of Texas personalities, family portraits, (with much on the Sloans, Campbells and others) archival photographs of the period and most impressively,the tissue-guarded frontispiece a steel-point engraving of the author B.B. Paddock.(1844-1922) Fort Worth businessman and promoter. Born 1844 in Cleveland, Ohio; died 1922 in Fort Worth, Texas. Paddock served as a captain in the Confederate Army and studied law in Mississippi before moving to Fort Worth in 1872. His interests included banking, investment securities, railroads, and real estate. He was publisher of the Fort Worth Democrat, later editor of the Fort Worth Gazette, founder and president of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, organizer of the Board of Trade, president of the Texas Spring Palace Association (1889-1890), state representative (1881-1883 and 1913-1915), mayor of Fort Worth (1892-1900), and author of four books on Fort Worth and West Texas history.