Question: What Fort Worth icon popularized the description of the city as “Where the West Begins”?
Answer: Amon G. Carter, the founder and longtime publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Born in 1879 in Crafton, Texas, he began his career selling ad space for the Fort Worth Star. After a few years on the job, he helped raise funds for the newspaper to buy the rival Telegram.
Carter used his influence as the publisher of the Star-Telegram to establish Fort Worth’s first radio station and the state’s first TV station, as well as lobbying for the creation of Texas Tech University and convincing major corporations (including the predecessors to American Airlines and Bell Textron) to relocate to Fort Worth.