A Dirty, Wicked Town - 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 A Dirty, Wicked Town write by David L. Bristow. This book was released on 2000-04. A Dirty, Wicked Town available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press "It requires but little if any, stretch of the imagination to regard Omaha as a cesspool of iniquity, for it is given up to lawlessness and is overrun with a horde of fugitives from justice and dangerous men of all kinds who carry things with a high hand and a loose rein... If you want to find a rogue's rookery, go to Omaha." A Kansas City newspaper.
My Omaha Obsession
My Omaha Obsession - 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 My Omaha Obsession write by Miss Cassette. This book was released on 2020-11. My Omaha Obsession available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history. Rather than covering the city’s best-known sites, Miss Cassette is irresistibly drawn to strange little buildings and glorious large homes that don’t exist anymore as well as to stories of Harkert’s Holsum Hamburgers and the Twenties Club. Piecing together the records of buildings and homes and everything interesting that came after, Miss Cassette shares her observations of the property and its significance to Omaha. She scrutinizes land deeds, insurance maps, tax records, and old newspaper articles to uncover a property’s singular story. Through conversations with fellow detectives and history enthusiasts, she guides readers along her path of hunches, personal interests, mishaps, and more. As a longtime resident of Omaha, Miss Cassette is informed by memories of her youth combined with an enduring curiosity about the city’s offbeat relics and remains. Part memoir and part research guide with a healthy dose of colorful wandering, My Omaha Obsession celebrates the historic built environment and searches for the people who shaped early Omaha.
The Women Who Built Omaha
The Women Who Built Omaha - 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 The Women Who Built Omaha write by Eileen Wirth. This book was released on 2022-05. The Women Who Built Omaha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eileen Wirth explores the important contributions of women to Omaha’s history—from the work of local women in numerous fields from the 1850s to the modern women’s movement in the 1970s—bringing to life many who have been overlooked.
Secret Omaha: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Secret Omaha: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure - 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 Secret Omaha: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure write by Ryan Roenfeld. This book was released on 2021-05-15. Secret Omaha: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did Omaha get its nickname, “The Gateway to the West” and where can you gawk at the footsteps of the first human to walk in space? Just scratch the surface of a city best known for Warren Buffett, college baseball, and a great zoo and find far more than meets the eye. And Secret Omaha: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure is just the book you’ll need to uncover all the stories of Nebraska’s lone metropolis. Omaha rises up out of the low broken bluffs along the west bank of the Missouri River and sprawls west across what was once the prairie grasslands of the Great Plains. The buffalo wallows have been replaced by a more urban mix of grit and gentrification, with tree-lined avenues, boulevards, and varied communities that hold on to their heritage for generations. There’s a giant fork in Little Italy and stories told in stone around what was the world’s largest livestock market. There’s an old blues song by Big Joe Williams about an Omaha intersection that’s now on the National Register, and Irish Nationalists erected a grand monument to the Fenian who invaded Canada twice. Anyone in Omaha can take a gander at Goose Hollow or visit a haven for herons, but now author and Omaha enthusiast Ryan Roenfeld takes you on your own behind-the-scenes tour of the Big O. With his book as your guide, you’ll discover a whole new side to the city that’s inspired him for years.
Omaha Sketchbook
Omaha Sketchbook - 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 Omaha Sketchbook write by Gregory Halpern. This book was released on 2019-08-31. Omaha Sketchbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the last fifteen years, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in Omaha, Nebraska, steadily compiling a lyrical, if equivocal, response to the American Heartland. In loosely-collaged spreads that reproduce his construction-paper sketchbooks, Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies, playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place. Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power.
