Milwaukee Mayhem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Milwaukee Mayhem write by Matthew J. Prigge. This book was released on 2015-10-05. Milwaukee Mayhem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From murder and matchstick men to all-consuming fires, painted women, and Great Lakes disasters--and the wide-eyed public who could not help but gawk at it all--"Milwaukee Mayhem" uncovers the little-remembered and rarely told history of the underbelly of a Midwestern metropolis. "Milwaukee Mayhem" offers a new perspective on Milwaukee's early years, forgoing the major historical signposts found in traditional histories and focusing instead on the strange and brutal tales of mystery, vice, murder, and disaster that were born of the city's transformation from lakeside settlement to American metropolis. Author Matthew J. Prigge presents these stories as they were recounted to the public in the newspapers of the era, using the vivid and often grim language of the times to create an engaging and occasionally chilling narrative of a forgotten Milwaukee. Through his thoughtful introduction, Prigge gives the work context, eschewing assumptions about "simpler times" and highlighting the mayhem that the growth and rise of a city can bring about. These stories are the orphans of Milwaukee's history, too unusual to register in broad historic narratives, too strange to qualify as nostalgia, but nevertheless essential to our understanding of this American city.
Damn the Old Tinderbox!
Damn the Old Tinderbox! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Damn the Old Tinderbox! write by Matthew J. Prigge. This book was released on 2019-03-01. Damn the Old Tinderbox! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the dead of an unassuming January night in 1883, Milwaukee’s Newhall House hotel was set on fire. Two hours later, the building—once among the tallest in the nation—lay in ruins and over seventy people were dead. It was a tragedy that brought global notice to Milwaukee, with daring escapes and rescues and heart-wrenching tales of victims burned to death or killed as they leapt from the burning building. From the great horror emerged an even greater string of mysteries: Who had set the fire and who was to blame for the staggering loss of life? The Newhall’s hard-luck barkeeper? A gentleman arsonist? What of the many other unexplained fires at the hotel? Had the Newhall’s management neglected fire safety to boost their profits? Damn the Old Tinderbox! is the gripping tale of one of the Gilded Age’s forgotten calamities, a fire that remains among the deadliest unsolved arsons in American history, and a significant chapter in both the history of Milwaukee and the Midwest.
Wisconsin Magazine of History
Wisconsin Magazine of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wisconsin Magazine of History write by Milo Milton Quaife. This book was released on 2015. Wisconsin Magazine of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fox Cities Murder & Mayhem
Fox Cities Murder & Mayhem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fox Cities Murder & Mayhem write by Gavin Schmitt. This book was released on 2017-11-27. Fox Cities Murder & Mayhem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wind through the criminal history of the cities along northeast Wisconsin’s Fox River with the author of Milwaukee Mafia as your guide. The safe and sedate Fox Cities have seen their share of horrible crimes. Coldblooded murder, kidnapping, prostitution, organized crime and other misdeeds shocked and appalled not just the community but the entire state. Murderer Porter Ross tried to commit suicide by eating bedsprings. Wenzel Kabat mutilated and burned a man in order to take over his farm. The Appleton Butcher left dismembered human remains on a playground for children to find. In this volume, crime writer and leading expert on the Milwaukee Mafia Gavin Schmitt turns his magnifying glass on small-town America. Includes photos!
Milwaukee Mafia
Milwaukee Mafia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Milwaukee Mafia write by Gavin Schmitt. This book was released on 2012. Milwaukee Mafia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sky was the limit, as the Mafia indulged in running alcohol, extortion, protection rackets, adn skimming from Las Vegas casinos. The Cream City had its crooked lawyers, corrupt cops, and even a mayor on the take. There was the blood of those who dared to stand in the syndicate's way, who were found dead in ditches or as victims of car bombs. While now considered extinct, the Milwaukee Family was once a dominant force in the Midwest.
