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Madam Belle

Author : Maryjean Wall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813147085
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Madam Belle written by Maryjean Wall and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and scandal. But it was in Miss Hill's "respectable" establishment that she began to acquire the skills, manners, and business contacts that allowed her to ascend to power and influence as an internationally known madam. In this revealing book, Maryjean Wall offers a tantalizing true story of vice and power in the Gilded Age South, as told through the life and times of the notorious Miss Belle. After years on the streets and working for Hill, Belle Brezing borrowed enough money to set up her own establishment -- her wealth and fame growing alongside the booming popularity of horse racing. Soon, her houses were known internationally, and powerful patrons from the industrial cities of the Northeast courted her in the lavish parlors of her gilt-and-mirror mansion. Secrecy was a moral code in the sequestered demimonde of prostitution in Victorian America, so little has been written about the Southern madam credited with inspiring the character Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. Following Brezing from her birth amid the ruins of the Civil War to the height of her scarlet fame and beyond, Wall uses her story to explore a wider world of sex, business, politics, and power. The result is a scintillating tale that is as enthralling as any fiction.

Belle Brezing

Author : MC Price
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 149693248X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Belle Brezing written by MC Price and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere between a paperboys first cup of chicory coffee and the memories of the Madam who inspired Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind fame, there lies a story of sex, secrets and spiritual redemption. Interweaving portals to the past with the magic of a Spirit Guide called back to his lovers deathbed, Belle Brezing is a haunting love story about a loyal paperboy on a high-stakes mission: To guide his former lover to remember the secret that forged her rise to fame but closed her heart to love. Belle Brezing, the novel, takes a look at the woman who died in virtual isolation in 1940, decades after her business was closed by the Army in 1917. Brezing was a nationally known southern Madam whose obituary appeared on the front of the NY Times as well as Time Magazine. (1863-1940) Belle Brezing was a charismatic woman who brought herself out of poverty and an emotionally and physically painful early childhood. Shedding light on the connections of a wounded past and a life lived in quiet desperation, the award-winning novel Belle Brezing exposes the scandals and secrets of this dynamic woman whose life parallels timely issues in the arena of prostitution and sex trafficking.

Wicked Lexington, Kentucky

Author : Fiona Young-Brown
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625841086
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Wicked Lexington, Kentucky written by Fiona Young-Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with tales of infamous duels, cheating congressmen, and much more, Wicked Lexington, Kentucky offers the first collection the city's rowdy and ruckus history . Despite its illustrious beginnings as the "Athens of the west," Lexington has always had a darker side lurking just beneath its glossy sheen. It didn't take long for the first intellectual hub west of the Alleghenies to quickly morph into a city with the same scandalous inclinations as neighboring Louisville and Cincinnati. From Belle Brezing's infamous brothel of the late 1800s, frequented by some of the city's most prominent businessmen, and once pardoned by the governor, to historic sports scandals of the 1900s, local author Fiona Young-Brown tracks Lexington's penchant for misdeeds from founding to modern times.

Belle Brezing: American Magdalene

Author : Doug Tattershall
Publisher : Wind Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781936138685
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Belle Brezing: American Magdalene written by Doug Tattershall and published by Wind Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the famous madam who was the inspiration for the character Belle Watling in Gone With The Wind.

Madam Belle

Author : Maryjean Wall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813147077
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Madam Belle written by Maryjean Wall and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “captivating” true story of the notorious Gilded Age madam who inspired the Belle Watling character in Gone with the Wind (The Wall Street Journal). Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill’s bawdy house—an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and scandal. But it was in Miss Hill’s “respectable” establishment that she began to acquire the skills, manners, and business contacts that allowed her to ascend to power and influence as an internationally known madam. In this revealing book, Maryjean Wall offers a tantalizing true story of vice and power in the Gilded Age South, as told through the life and times of the notorious Miss Belle. After years on the streets and working for Hill, Belle Brezing borrowed enough money to set up her own establishment—her wealth and fame growing alongside the booming popularity of horse racing. Soon, her houses were known internationally, and powerful patrons from the industrial cities of the Northeast courted her in the lavish parlors of her gilt-and-mirror mansion. Secrecy was a moral code in the sequestered demimonde of prostitution in Victorian America, so little has been written about the Southern madam credited with inspiring the character Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. Following Brezing from her birth amid the ruins of the Civil War to the height of her scarlet fame and beyond, Wall uses her story to explore a wider world of sex, business, politics, and power. The result is a scintillating tale as enthralling as any fiction.

Weird Kentucky

Author : Jeffrey Scott Holland
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402754388
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Weird Kentucky written by Jeffrey Scott Holland and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the odd and interesting history, places, and people in Kentucky.

Crawfish Bottom

Author : Douglas Boyd
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813134099
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Crawfish Bottom written by Douglas Boyd and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. “Craw’s” reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city’s Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd’s Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimately saw four-hundred families displaced. Using oral histories and firsthand memories, Boyd not only provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and its culture but also demonstrates how this type of study enhances the historical record. A former Frankfort police officer describes Craw’s residents as a “rough class of people, who didn’t mind killing or being killed.” In Crawfish Bottom, the former residents of Craw acknowledge the popular misconceptions about their community but offer a richer and more balanced view of the past.

Gone with the Wind

Author : Margaret Mitchell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416548947
Total Pages : 1476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Gone with the Wind written by Margaret Mitchell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the tempestuous romance between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara is set amid the drama of the Civil War.

Who Killed Betty Gail Brown?

Author : Robert G. Lawson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813174643
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? written by Robert G. Lawson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 26, 1961, after an evening of studying with friends on the campus of Transylvania University, nineteen-year-old student Betty Gail Brown got into her car around midnight—presumably headed for home. But she would never arrive. Three hours later, Brown was found dead in a driveway near the center of campus, strangled to death with her own brassiere. Kentuckians from across the state became engrossed in the proceedings as lead after lead went nowhere. Four years later, the police investigation completely stalled. In 1965, a drifter named Alex Arnold Jr. confessed to the killing while in jail on other charges in Oregon. Arnold was brought to Lexington, indicted for the murder of Betty Gail Brown, and put on trial, where he entered a plea of not guilty. Robert G. Lawson was a young attorney at a local firm when a senior member asked him to help defend Arnold, and he offers a meticulous record of the case in Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? During the trial, the courtroom was packed daily, but witnesses failed to produce any concrete evidence. Arnold was an alcoholic whose memory was unreliable, and his confused, inconsistent answers to questions about the night of the homicide did not add up. Since the trial, new leads have come and gone, but Betty Gail Brown's murder remains unsolved. A written transcript of the court proceedings does not exist; and thus Lawson, drawing upon police and court records, newspaper articles, personal files, and his own notes, provides an invaluable record of one of Kentucky's most famous cold cases.

Madam Belle Brezing

Author : Buddy Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780961282400
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Madam Belle Brezing written by Buddy Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irrepressible

Author : Emily Bingham
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374713804
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Irrepressible written by Emily Bingham and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameless, seductive and brilliant, endearing and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London, she drove both men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her love affairs with women made her the subject of derision and caused a doctor to try to cure her queerness. After the speed and pleasure of her early days, the toxicity of judgment from others coupled with her own anxieties resulted in years of addiction and breakdowns. And perhaps most painfully, she became a source of embarrassment for her family-she was labeled "a three-dollar bill." But forebears can become fairy-tale figures, especially when they defy tradition and are spoken of only in whispers. For the biographer and historian Emily Bingham, the secret of who her great-aunt was, and just why her story was concealed for so long, led to Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham. Henrietta rode the cultural cusp as a muse to the Bloomsbury Group, the daughter of the ambassador to the United Kingdom during the rise of Nazism, the seductress of royalty and athletic champions, and a pre-Stonewall figure who never buckled to convention. Henrietta's audacious physicality made her unforgettable in her own time, and her ecstatic and harrowing life serves as an astonishing reminder of the stories lying buried in our own families.

Murder Under A New Moon

Author : Abigail Keam
Publisher : Worker Bee Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder Under A New Moon written by Abigail Keam and published by Worker Bee Press. This book was released on 2021-12-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Best Historical Category! Robert Farley is now a bonafide duke, and solicitors from the Duchy of Brynelleth have come to negotiate his marriage contract to Mona Moon. When the three solicitors demand that Mona relinquish Moon Enterprises and live in England full time, she threatens to give Robert back his engagement ring and call off the wedding. She says quite frankly, “I’m not going to give up one of the largest mining conglomerates in the world just so I can host dinner parties at Brynelleth for your snotty friends.” Robert, caught between the responsibilities demanded by Brynelleth and his deep love for Mona, is furious with his solicitors for not being more diplomatic. However, the matter resolves itself when the three English solicitors are caught visiting the notorious bawdy house of Belle Brezing, the most famous madam in the South. Ooops! Events are made worse when one of them turns up dead in the bed of a lady-of-the-evening. Now Mona and Robert must find the culprit before their reputations are torn to shreds by their enemies. Fast-moving events threaten to turn Mona’s world upside-down as she is confronted with seemingly impossible decisions to make. Should she marry Robert Farley or not? If you like mysteries by Sara Rosett, Agatha Christie, Lee Strauss, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jacqueline Winspear, Rhys Bowen, and Patricia Wentworth, you will enjoy the 1930s Mona Moon Mysteries by Abigail Keam. Murder Under A Blue Moon Murder Under A Blood Moon Murder Under A Bad Moon Murder Under A Silver Moon Murder Under A Wolf Moon Murder Under A Black Moon Murder Under A Full Moon Murder Under A New Moon Murder Under A British Moon Murder Under A Bridal Moon Murder Under A Western Moon Murder Under A Honey Moon cozy mystery, murder mystery, mystery, historical mystery, female sleuth, women's action and adventure, abigail keam, rags to riches, historical romance, 20th romance, 1930s, Great Depression, Mystery Thriller and Suspense, new adult, award-winning, traditional mystery, amateur sleuth, Southern mystery, clean mystery, Mona Moon Mystery, Mona Moon Mysteries, female protagonist, clean books for women, clean books for girls, historical fiction, friendship fiction, five star reviews, five star, rich, wealth, single women, readers choice, blue moon, mona moon, new deal, Roosevelt, eleanor roosevelt, small town mysteries

American Magdalene: the Redemption of Belle Brezing

Author : Doug Tattershall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521430538
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book American Magdalene: the Redemption of Belle Brezing written by Doug Tattershall and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When author Margaret Mitchell needed a hardscrabble woman to serve as confidante to Rhett Butler, her husband told her about Belle Brezing, a Victorian madam of a famous brothel in Lexington, Kentucky. Brezing entered Mitchell's novel as Belle Watling, but the real Belle's life story is as dramatic as anything to be found in the pages of "Gone With the Wind." Brezing was born illegitimate, raised in poverty in a violent home, and cast off at 15 after her mother's funeral, with a baby in her arms and her door padlocked by the landlord. From this desperate childhood, Brezing became rich and famous, operating what Time magazine called the "most orderly of disorderly houses." The city's famous horse racing meets helped make her brothel known nationwide, but behind her success was a determination to provide for her daughter and see that she never saw the inside of a brothel nor was ever mistreated by a man. Brezing was known as someone who distributed much of her wealth to needy folks out the side door of her famous house and for raising vice in her hometown to the level of haute couture. By the time Brezing died in 1940, decades of local folklore and the success of "Gone With the Wind" helped generate a massive crowd at the auction of her household items. She has been the subject of historic preservation movements and theatrical plays and has had her name on a light beer, a gay bar, and an annual bed race. But despite the iconic and bawdy image in her hometown, her story is a more human one. The visits of her doctor, university book collectors, the city's only female police officer, and her priest offer glimpses into the years of seclusion at the end of her life, revealing how she reconciled her sorrowful childhood and her raucous career.

Kentucky Curiosities

Author : Vince Staten
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762792701
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Curiosities written by Vince Staten and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky Curiosities is your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Bluegrass State has to offer. Discover a medieval castle in the middle of horse-farm country, a soda fountain where the burgers and shakes are almost as famous as the clientele, and the true meaning of "biting the bullet." Meet the man who invented the traffic light, Kentucky's two Cassius Clays, and the real J. Peterman. Visit a museum devoted to the history of whiskey, a rest area named for a shoeshine man, and a house with 13 windows, 13-foot ceilings, 13 railings - you get the picture! Whether you're a born-and-raised Kentuckian or a recent transplant, authors Vince Staten and Liz Baldi will have you laughing out loud as they introduce you to the neighbors you never knew you had and take you to places you never knew existed - right in your own backyard.

My Century in History

Author : Thomas D. Clark
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813171385
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book My Century in History written by Thomas D. Clark and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-08-04 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Thomas D. Clark was hired to teach history at the University of Kentucky in 1931, he began a career that would span nearly three-quarters of a century and would profoundly change not only the history department and the university but the entire Commonwealth. His still-definitive History of Kentucky (1937) was one of more than thirty books he would write or edit that dealt with Kentucky, the South, and the American frontier. In addition to his wide scholarly contributions, Clark devoted his life to the preservation of Kentucky's historical records. He began this crusade by collecting vast stores of Kentucky's military records from the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. His efforts resulted in the Commonwealth's first archival system and the subsequent creation of the Kentucky Library and Archives, the University of Kentucky Special Collections and Archives, the Kentucky Oral History Commission, the Kentucky History Center (recently named for him), and the University Press of Kentucky. Born in 1903 on a cotton farm in Louisville, Mississippi, Thomas Dionysius Clark would follow a long and winding path to find his life's passion in the study of history. He dropped out of school after seventh grade to work first at a sawmill and then on a canal dredgeboat before resuming his formal education. Clark's earliest memories—hearing about local lynch-mob violence and witnessing the destruction of virgin forest—are an invaluable window into the national issues of racial injustice and environmental depredation. In many ways, the story of Dr. Clark's life is the story of America in the twentieth century. In My Century in History, Clark offers vivid memories of his journey, both personal and academic, a journey that took him from Mississippi to Kentucky and North Carolina, to leadership of the nation's major historical organizations, and to visiting professorships in Austria, England, Greece, and India, as well as in universities throughout the United States. An enormously popular public lecturer and teacher, he touched thousands of lives in Kentucky and around the world. With his characteristic wit and insight, Clark now offers his many admirers one final volume of history—his own.

Murder Under A Bridal Moon

Author : Abigail Keam
Publisher : Worker Bee Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder Under A Bridal Moon written by Abigail Keam and published by Worker Bee Press. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOP TEN MYSTERY NOVELS OF 2022 by KINGS RIVER LIFE MAGAZINE! Mona Moon is planning her wedding to Robert Farley, Duke of Brynelleth, when her preparations go haywire after one of her maids is found murdered. With just days before the blessed event, unwanted guests invade Moon Manor throwing a wrench into Mona’s plans and making it more difficult to seek the truth. Now Robert is a suspect in the maid’s murder. A missing gold brooch and twenty five-dollar bills are the only clues Mona has to find the murderer. She must clear Robert from suspicion or he will call off the wedding, saying he refuses to taint Mona’s good name. Can she discover the killer before the wedding, or will the murderer witness the breakup between Mona and Robert? Was that the intention all along? If you like mysteries by Sara Rosett, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jacqueline Winspear, Rhys Bowen, and Patricia Wentworth, you will enjoy the 1930s Mona Moon Mysteries by Abigail Keam. Murder Under A Blue Moon Murder Under A Blood Moon Murder Under A Bad Moon Murder Under A Silver Moon Murder Under A Wolf Moon Murder Under A Black Moon Murder Under A Full Moon Murder Under A New Moon Murder Under A British Moon Murder Under A Bridal Moon Murder Under A Western Moon Murder Under A Honey Moon cozy mystery, murder mystery, mystery, historical mystery, female sleuth, women's action and adventure, abigail keam, rags to riches, historical romance, 20th romance, 1930s, Great Depression, Mystery Thriller and Suspense, new adult, award-winning, traditional mystery, amateur sleuth, Southern mystery, clean mystery, Mona Moon Mystery, Mona Moon Mysteries, female protagonist, clean books for women, clean books for girls, historical fiction, friendship fiction, five star reviews, five star, rich, wealth, single women, readers choice, blue moon, mona moon, new deal, Roosevelt, eleanor roosevelt, small town mysteries

Cattle Kingdom

Author : Christopher Knowlton
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544369971
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Cattle Kingdom written by Christopher Knowlton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. This is a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made. “Knowlton writes well about all the fun stuff: trail drives, rambunctious cow towns, gunfights and range wars . . . [He] enlists all of these tropes in support of an intriguing thesis: that the romance of the Old West arose upon the swelling surface of a giant economic bubble . . . Cattle Kingdom is The Great Plains by way of The Big Short.” — Wall Street Journal “Knowlton deftly balances close-ups and bird’s-eye views. We learn countless details . . . More important, we learn why the story played out as it did.” — New York Times Book Review “The best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years.” — True West