J Frank Norris -Top'Hill Casino- Lew Jenkins and the Texas Oil Rich

by Jim Gatewood

Overview

Texas’ Top O' Hill Casino, a temple of chance, sat at the top of a geological outcropping jutting a thousand feet above the valley floor below, the highest point in Tarrant County. A road winding through native oak trees protected by gated stone turreted guard towers filtered out all but those who could afford the Texas no limit games of chance. At that time in our history Las Vegas was only a dusty spot on the map of Nevada.

Top O' Hill Casino beckoned to the rich and famous, Hollywood stars and their producers, as well as Texas oil barons who felt fully alive only when a fortune was on the line. With a casual freewheeling, free spending attitude so common to the new rich they came with a gleam in their eye; they came to have fun and to try to break the Casino's bank.

A Texas historical marker stands today in Arlington Texas at the gated entrance to the thirty seven acre campus of the Arlington Baptist College; which denotes this was the most opulent casino in the Northern hemisphere during the roaring twenties.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016342757
Publisher:	Mullaney Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/01/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	297
Sales rank:	847,048
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Jim Gatewood has spent the last eleven years with the Dallas County Assassination Review Board. In his quest he has rediscovered much of the forgotten history of Dallas' most colorful period when crime, law and order, and the emergence of the city's most prominent figures, who would leave their mark upon America's History.

His father was a Chicago stock broker and Jim was born eleven days before the market crash of 1929, Jim made his journey from Chicago to Dallas in a laundry basket in the back seat of a 1929 Hudson. He would spend his entire life in Dallas and, today bears the mark of a great storyteller and historian. He engages his listeners carrying them back in time to long-forgotten places and revealing the secrets hidden away in the dusty attics of time.

Among the many books written about notable figures of Dallas, Texas
you will meet; Benny Binion, Dallas Gambler and Mob boss - Sheriff Bill Decker a Texas legend - J. Frank Norris - Top O' Hill Casino & The Texas Oil Rich - The Ku Klux Klan's stronghold over Dallas - Slats Rodgers and the Love Field Lunatics - Bonnie and Clyde's Baby Daughter - Captain Will Fritz and the Dallas Mafia and learn that the JFK's Assassination Was a Mafia Hit.

You will be there when a young boy named Orville (W.O. Bankston) came to Dallas in an empty box car-cold broke and hungry to become a life long friend of Sheriff bill Decker.

You will meet Harry Weatherford, the best rifle shot in Sheriff Decker's
cadre, who was placed on top of the County Records Building to protect
the motorcade and how he saved Jaclyn Kennedy's life by firing at Lee Harvey Oswald, causing Oswald's third shot to go high completely missing the motorcade striking the curb on Elm Street.

Travel with Jim through the history of Dallas as he preserves the previously unpublished legacy of our city.

To access the web site put Jim Gatewood in your internet search engine then click on the link Dallas history.



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