Wanted in America
Posters Collected by the Fort Worth Police Department, 1898-1903
978-0-87565-730-1 Cloth
8.5 x 11 x 0 in
136 pp. 50 color photos.
Pub Date: 11/14/2019
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The fifty posters published here represent only a small sample of the hundreds available for research. The stories behind the posters demonstrate how twentieth-century advances in mass media distribution, law enforcement techniques, transportation, and communication impacted the ability of lawmen to locate the fugitives they sought and the ability of the suspects to stay on the run. They reveal that the game of cat and mouse continued as both hunter and hunted found ways to use technology to their advantage.
Over thirty-five professors, journalists, and historians generously contributed their talents to research and craft the essays that accompany these posters. The tales themselves run the gamut from amusing to puzzling to horrific. These may not be the wanted posters of popular imagination, but they are the real thing—which makes them all the better.
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Published by Texas Christian University Press