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The cattle industry was the staple of the economy in many southwest towns in the 1800s.

Fort Worth, Texas was one of these towns.

When the railroad came through at the turn of the century, it changed everything.

Life was now much easier for the cowboys, for they no longer had to drive their herds

of cattle to the marketplace.

Fort Worth started to grow.

Eventually ended up with 37 saloons, 17 blacksmiths, 24 ragging yards, 7 barbers, and 6 high

chops.

There was plenty of lodging as well.

One of these hotels was built in a block west of the old Fort Worth stockyards in 1910.

111 years later, Miss Molly's bed and breakfast is the subject of this episode.

In 1910, Fort Worth was one of the busiest cattle towns in America.

To accommodate the many cowboys and cattle buyers, the boarding house was built.

Ten years later, Amelia Elmer purchased the small inn.

She spruced it up and named it the palace rooms, hoping to have a more glamorous appeal.

This was never really going to be the case in this town at this time.

It would eventually become a speakeasy called the Oasis, and by the 1940s it was a Bordeaux.

The guy at hotel, as it was called, hosted unsavory characters as well as all walks of

life in the cattle industry.

The brothel was operated by a very business savvy woman by the name of Miss Josie King.

After a good decade long run in surviving Prohibition of World War II, the Bordeaux closed

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