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Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about Colonel William G. Butler who sought economic revenge on the town of Helena, Texas for the 1884 murder of his son. Butler sold his land to a railroad company with the stipulation that the railroad bypass Helena. This story includes footage of the abandoned town.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: The man who killed a town],
script,
June 12, 1964;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc959210/:
accessed June 7, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.