Wicked Wichita

Author : Joe Stumpe
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439665411

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Wicked Wichita by Joe Stumpe Pdf

Early Wichita earned a wicked reputation from newspapers across Kansas thanks to a bevy of madams and murderers, bootleggers and bank robbers, con men and crooked cops. Gambler and saloonkeeper "Rowdy Joe" Lowe was the toast of the town before shooting down his rival, "Red" Beard, and skipping town. Robber and cop killer "Clever Eddie" Adams spread a wave of terror until the police evened the score. Dixie Lee ran the city's classiest brothel with little interference from authorities. Notorious quack "Professor" H. Samuels made a fortune selling worthless eye drops. And county attorney Willard Boone was chased out of town when he was caught with his hand in the bootlegger's cookie jar. Local author Joe Stumpe tells the real stories of the city's best-known and least-known criminals and misfits.

Author : Denise Neil
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467146975

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Classic Restaurants of Wichita by Denise Neil Pdf

Wichita is the birthplace of Pizza Hut and White Castle. But from its early days as a cattle drive stopover on the Chisholm Trail to its current life as a hub for aviation manufacturing, the city has been filled with hundreds of popular restaurants owned by generations of hardworking entrepreneurs. The 1920s and 1930s were a time for tearooms like Innes and for cafés like Holly Cafe and Fairland Cafe. The '60s and '70s ushered in swanky private nightclubs like Abe's. And there are classics like NuWay Cafe, Old Mill Tasty Shop and Angelo's that are still around today. Author Denise Neil details the rich history of Wichita's favorite classic eateries.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89122457666

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1924 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015079817071

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493066162

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Behind Brothel Doors by Jan MacKell Collins Pdf

Often overlooked, disregarded, or hidden from historical accounts due to its racy connotations, the prostitution industry was one of the most important factors in the development of the American West. The “oldest profession” fueled the economies of camps, towns, and cities as they grew. Sex workers, from common prostitutes to reigning madams such as Anna Wilson, Maggie Wood, and Big Ann Wynne, defied social norms to make sure their hometowns, and they themselves, were successful. Their reasons for entering the life varied, from women who could find no other way to make money to those who desired independence and wealth. In return they were ostracized, criticized, and subject to fines, jail, disease, drug addiction, violence, and unwanted pregnancies. While their success stories are many, others failed in their endeavors, their names buried with them when they died. Behind Brothel Doors chronicles the history of the nineteenth-century sex work industry in the Great Plains states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.

Author : Roger Ringer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467146845

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True Tales of Kansas by Roger Ringer Pdf

The historic tales of the Sunflower State and its people are as interesting as the days are long. A pair of brothers went from making airplanes to tractors and soon became part of John Deere. Kansan Captain Donald K. Ross won the first Congressional Medal of Honor through his actions at Pearl Harbor. The first telephone exchange in the area was invented by a Mr. Strowger because a rival funeral director had a girlfriend who was an operator for the local telephone company and kept sending his business to her friend. Nannie Jones, who stood up to Jim Crow racism and won her case in court, is memorialized by a headstone at Highland Cemetery. Author Roger Ringer details these stories and more.

Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Subject headings
ISBN : NWU:35556011334711

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015038642149

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Prof of Journalism & Political Science Terry M Sell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0295803673

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Wings of Power by Prof of Journalism & Political Science Terry M Sell Pdf

Through most of its history, the Boeing Company has been one of the biggest providers of jobs and wealth in western Washington State. But in the 1990s, the company found itself a target of local activists and politicians who saw urban sprawl and "growth politics" ruining the region's quality of life. T. M. Sell grew up in a Boeing family, near Boeing's Renton plant, and later covered the company as a reporter for the Valley Daily News and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is a first-hand observer of the drama he unfolds--one personally interested in the future of his community, well informed about the details of its history, acquainted with many of the principal players, and conversant with the theoretical and historical literature that bears on the multifaceted questions he seeks to answer. After a lively sketch of the Boeing Company's history into the last decade of the 20th century, Sell looks at what happened when Boeing tried to expand its facilities in Renton and Everett. It was then that the "paradox of growth" first manifested itself, the point at which the benefits of economic expansion appeared to be outweighed by its costs. Sell examines political power management in Washington State, paying particular attention to Boeing's successful efforts to be a positive influence in the state, to the strategies it used to influence growth-management legislation in Olympia, and to its negotiations with the communities most affected by its efforts to grow. In each case, Sell gives not just an overview of positions and strategies but also sharply drawn portraits of the lobbyists, analysts, and politicians involved, many of whom explain their views in direct conversation. The balanced and comprehensive approach Sell brings to bear on the story is also his recommendation for dealing with inevitable future growth-related contentions. Fostering the continuing health of our economic and political environment, he concludes, will require just such a broad, evenhanded, and sensible approach to the politics of compromise.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015019757130

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All Hands by Anonim Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1452 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UIUC:30112057495456

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Library of Congress Subject Headings: F-O by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division Pdf

Author : Tabor Evans
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101165928

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Longarm 307: Longarm and the Outlaw's Shadow by Tabor Evans Pdf

Longarm’s been around enough bad guys to know how to act like one… Escorting a wanted man from El Paso to Denver is a peach of an assignment for Longarm, until—right before his eyes—an assassin empties a six-gun into his prisoner. Chasing the shooter off the train, Longarm finds himself caught in a torrential downpour. But his rain of bullets hits its mark. He kills the gunman…only to run into his accomplices in the storm. Lucky for Longarm, they think he is the gunman. Now he can get close to the man who ordered the hit on his prisoner—the Kansas badman Sand Lachlan, who’s proven as elusive as his namesake every time he slips through justice’s fingers… So now it’s up to Longarm to show Sand who’s made of true grit…

Author : Philip A. Greasley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253021168

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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two by Philip A. Greasley Pdf

The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1980-12
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : UIUC:30112105166471

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Naval Aviation News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stan Hoig
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826341563

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Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West by Stan Hoig Pdf

Before she was Wichita, Kansas, she was a collection of grass huts, home to the ancestors of the Wichita Indians. Then came the Spanish conquistadors, seeking gold but finding instead vast herds of buffalo. After the Civil War, Wichita played host to a cavalcade of Western men: frontier soldiers, Indian warriors, buffalo hunters, border ruffians, hell-for-leather Texas cattle drovers, ready-to-die gunslingers, and steel-eyed lawmen. Peerless Princess of the Plains, they called her. Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Bat Masterson were here, but so were Jesse Chisholm, Jack Ledford, Rowdy Joe and Rowdy Kate, Buffalo Bill Mathewson, Marshall Mike Meagher, Indian trader James Mead, Oklahoma Harry Hill, city founder Dutch Bill Greiffenstein, and a host of colorful characters like you've never known before. Stan Hoig depicts a once-rambunctious cowtown on the Chisholm Cattle Trail, neighbor to the lawless Indian Territory, roaring and bucking through its Wild West days toward becoming a major American city. Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West provides tribute to those sometimes valiant, sometimes wicked, sometimes hilarious, and often audacious characters who played a role in shaping Wichita's past.