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[News Clip: The man who killed a town] (Video)

[News Clip: The man who killed a town]

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.

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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/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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