Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice - 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 Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice write by John Simonson. This book was released on 2018. Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest illegal brewery ever found in the state. This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains. Author John Simonson resurrects forgotten stories by revisiting places where they occurred and telling the salacious history of booze in Kansas City.
A Culinary History of Missouri
A Culinary History of Missouri - 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 Culinary History of Missouri write by Suzanne Corbett. This book was released on 2021-09-27. A Culinary History of Missouri available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Missouri's history is best told through food, from its Native American and later French colonial roots to the country's first viticultural area. Learn about the state's vibrant barbecue culture, which stems from African American cooks, including Henry Perry, Kansas City's barbecue king. Trace the evolution of iconic dishes such as Kansas City burnt ends, St. Louis gooey butter cake and Springfield cashew chicken. Discover how hardscrabble Ozark farmers launched a tomato canning industry and how a financially strapped widow, Irma Rombauer, would forever change how cookbooks were written. Historian and culinary writer Suzanne Corbett and food and travel writer Deborah Reinhardt also include more than eighty historical recipes to capture a taste of Missouri's history that spans more than two hundred years.
Paris of the Plains
Paris of the Plains - 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 Paris of the Plains write by John Simonson. This book was released on 2010. Paris of the Plains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories about Kansas City from the 1910s to the 1950s.
Al Capone and His American Boys
Al Capone and His American Boys - 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 Al Capone and His American Boys write by William J. Helmer. This book was released on 2012-12-07. Al Capone and His American Boys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler—wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys"—set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they had the authority to strike at the racketeers who had killed her husband Gus. Discovered 60 years later in FBI files, the manuscript describes the couple's life on the run, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Gus was one of the shooters), and other headline crimes of that period. Prepared for publication by mob expert William J. Helmer, Al Capone and His American Boys is a compelling contemporary account of the heyday of Chicago crime by a woman who found herself married to the mob.
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri - 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 Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri write by Jonathan Halperin Earle. This book was released on 2013. Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This multi-faceted study gives readers a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the violence that erupted--long before the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter--along the Missouri-Kansas border by blending the political and military with the social and intellectual history of the populace. The fifteen essays together explain why the divisiveness was so bitter and persisted so long, still influencing attitudes 150 years later"--
