Wicked 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 Wicked Omaha write by Ryan Roenfeld. This book was released on 2017. Wicked Omaha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In old Omaha, the scent of opium wafted through saloon doors, while prostitutes openly solicited customers. When the St. Elmo theater ran short of the usual entertainment, the residents could always fall back on robbing strangers. Tenants of the Burnt District squirmed under the extorting thumb of a furniture dealer dubbed the Man-Landlady. The games of chance and confidence and outright municipal graft all played a part in a wicked city where gambler Tom Dennison ran politics and Madam Anna Wilson drove philanthropy. Join Ryan Roenfeld for a stroll along the seamier side of Omaha's past.
A Dirty, Wicked Town
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.
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.
River City Empire
River City Empire - 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 River City Empire write by Orville D. Menard. This book was released on 2013-11-01. River City Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An exploration of political bossism and machine politics of the early twentieth century focused on Omaha, Nebraska, and Thomas Dennison"--Provided by publisher.
Lost Omaha
Lost 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 Lost Omaha write by Janet R. Daly Bednarek. This book was released on 2018. Lost Omaha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The landmarks of Omaha's past reveal a history of industry, innovation and change. The Hotel Fontenelle, the Omaha Athletic Club and the Medical Arts Building disappeared in the wake of changes remaking downtown after World War II. Jobbers Canyon, a vital part of the city's wholesale district, was sacrificed to ConAgra's headquarters. Peony Park closed as suburban sprawl prevented its expansion, and changing leisure patterns took residents farther away for their amusement park experience. The stockyards finally closed in 1999, ending a long chapter in Omaha's history. Author and historian Janet R. Daly Bednarek charts the legacy of Omaha's lost history through its landmarks.
