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Minnesota's Notorious Nellie King

Author : Jerry Kuntz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625846762
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Minnesota's Notorious Nellie King written by Jerry Kuntz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true crime biography chronicles the misadventures of a lady outlaw who caused havoc across the late-19th century northern plains. The American historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously declared the 1890s to be the close of the American Frontier. But from 1887 to 1893, a young woman known as Nellie King was far from being tamed. King scandalized the residents of the Dakotas, Minnesota and northern Wisconsin with her fetching appearance, eccentric behavior, and criminal misdeeds. In Minnesota’s Notorious Nellie King, biographer Jerry Kuntz pieces together King’s legendary life—as well as the clues to her true identity. King employed more than a dozen aliases throughout her career as a fake detective, horse thief, laudanum fiend, and general disturber of the peace across the northern plains. She attracted sensational headlines, love-struck suitors, and stray revolver shots with equal abandon; her story’s Dickensian cast of characters included a hapless counterfeiter, a dashing physician, a battle-hardened magician, and a determined mother.

The Gangs of New York

Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gangs of New York written by Herbert Asbury and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Heroic Age of Diving

Author : Jerry Kuntz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438459629
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Heroic Age of Diving written by Jerry Kuntz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America. Beginning in 1837, some of the most brilliant engineers of Americas Industrial Revolution turned their attention to undersea technology. Inventors developed practical hard-helmet diving suits, as well as new designs of submarines, diving bells, floating cranes, and undersea explosives. These innovations were used to clear shipping lanes, harvest pearls, mine gold, and wage war. All of these underwater technologies were brought together by entrepreneurs, treasure-hunters, and daring divers in the 1850s to salvage three infamous shipwrecks on Lake Erie, each of which had involved the loss of hundreds of lives, as well as the worldly goods of the passengers. The prospect of treasure, combined with the national notoriety of these disasters, soon attracted the attention of local adventurers and the countrys leading divers and marine engineers. In The Heroic Age of Diving, Jerry Kuntz shares the fascinating stories of the pioneers of underwater invention and the brave divers who employed the new technologies as they raced withand againstmarine engineers to salvage the tragic wrecks of Lake Erie. Jerry Kuntz has filled in a previously blank page in the story of divingand done it well. The Heroic Age of Diving tells the story not only of the development of salvage technology but also the human side of this always-dangerous and often-deadly career. This is not a tale for the faint of heart (helmet squeeze is a gruesome fate), but one well worth reading for those interested in early technology and the men brave (or foolish) enough to gamble their lives using it. This book is a window on an unexplored (and unexpected) world, and the author deserves great credit for bringing it back into the light. Chuck Veit, author of Raising Missouri: John Gowen and the Salvage of the U.S. Steam Frigate Missouri, 18431852 The Heroic Age of Diving is both very interesting and very important. Having spent over twenty years researching and publishing general diving history, I am confident that this book will fill an important gap in the nations diving history. Leslie Leaney, Cofounder, Historical Diving Society

A Pair of Shootists

Author : Jerry Kuntz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pair of Shootists written by Jerry Kuntz and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1888, Samuel F. Cody, a twenty-one-year-old horse wrangler, met Maud Lee, a sixteen-year-old aspiring circus performer, while touring with the Wild West show cast of Adam Forepaugh's Circus. A quick rapport developed between the girl from Norristown, Pennsylvania, and the cowboy who dazzled audiences with his good looks and fancy pistol shooting. A Pair of Shootists is the exuberant and sometimes heartbreaking story of the elusive S. F. Cody and his first wife, Maud Lee. Recounting their many dramatic exploits, this biography also overturns the frequently romanticized view of Wild West shows. Living the erratic lives of touring performers, S. F. Cody -- who changed his name to capitalize on his resemblance to William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody -- and Maud Lee first appeared together in vaudeville halls and dime museums. Setbacks in the United States made Cody and Lee eager to try their luck abroad, so they traveled to Great Britain, where they played music halls and acted in burlesques on roller-skates and in extravagant arena exhibitions. When the two performers eventually parted ways, author Jerry Kuntz masterfully splits their stories into two. From there, he follows their individual ups and downs, including Cody's soaring career in pioneer aeronautics and Lee's decline into mental illness and addiction. In an ironic twist, Maud's professional life ended amidst a vast misunderstanding that brought her into conflict with the woman she had been emulating her entire career: Annie Oakley. While other biographies focus mainly on Cody's contribution to aviation, Kuntz uses sources previously unavailable to scholars to paint a more complete picture of Cody's early years and to recover the forgotten -- and ultimately tragic -- story of Maud Lee.

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch

Author : Alison Arngrim
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062000101
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Prairie Bitch written by Alison Arngrim and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is Alison Arngrim’s comic memoir of growing up as one of television’s most memorable characters—the devious Nellie Oleson on the hit television show Little House on the Prairie. With behind-the-scenes stories from the set, as well as tales from her bohemian upbringing in West Hollywood and her headline-making advocacy work on behalf of HIV awareness and abused children, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is a must for fans of everything Little House: the classic television series and its many stars like Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert; Gilbert’s bestselling memoir Prairie Tale... and, of course, the beloved series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder that started it all.

Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Author : Sonny Longtine
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625848471
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula written by Sonny Longtine and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residents of the idyllic villages scattered throughout the Upper Peninsula's richly forested paradise live in quiet comfort for the most part, believing that murder rarely happens in their secluded sanctuary3/4but it does, and more often than they realize. This collection of twenty-four legendary murders spans 160 years of Upper Michigan's history and dispels the notion that murder in the Upper Peninsula is an anomaly. From the bank robber who killed the warden and deputy warden of the Marquette Branch Prison to the unknown assailant who gunned down James Schoolcraft in Sault Ste. Marie, Sonny Longtine explores the tragic events that turned peaceful communities into fear-ridden crime scenes..

A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of the City of Seattle and County of King, Washington

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of the City of Seattle and County of King, Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Ántonia

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book My Ántonia written by Willa Cather and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1918 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl.

Annual Reports of the Various City Officers of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota

Author : Minneapolis (Minn.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Annual Reports of the Various City Officers of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota written by Minneapolis (Minn.) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brothels, Bordellos & Bad Girls

Author : Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826333438
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Brothels, Bordellos & Bad Girls written by Jan MacKell Collins and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of "working girls" in mining towns such as Cripple Creek.

Tragedy Plus Time

Author : Philip Scepanski
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477322566
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy Plus Time written by Philip Scepanski and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the most solemn moments in recent American history, comedians have tested the limits of how soon is “too soon” to joke about tragedy. Comics confront the horrifying events and shocking moments that capture national attention and probe the acceptable, or “sayable,” boundaries of expression that shape our cultural memory. In Tragedy Plus Time, Philip Scepanski examines the role of humor, particularly televised comedy, in constructing and policing group identity and memory in the wake of large-scale events. Tragedy Plus Time is the first comprehensive work to investigate tragedy-driven comedy in the aftermaths of such traumas as the JFK assassination and 9/11, as well as during the administration of Donald Trump. Focusing on the mass publicization of television comedy, Scepanski considers issues of censorship and memory construction in the ways comedians negotiate emotions, politics, war, race, and Islamophobia. Amid the media frenzy and conflicting expressions of grief following a public tragedy, comedians provoke or risk controversy to grapple publicly with national traumas that all Americans are trying to understand for themselves.

Packinghouse Daughter

Author : Cheri Register
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873513913
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Packinghouse Daughter written by Cheri Register and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violence that erupted when the company "replaced" its union workers with strikebreakers tested family loyalty and community stability, and attracted national attention when the governor of Minnesota called in the National Guard, declared martial law, and closed the plant. Register skillfully interweaves her own memories, historical research, and first-person interviews of participants on both sides of the strike into a narrative that is thoughtful and impassioned about the value of blue-collar work and the dignity of those who do it. Packinghouse Daughter also testifies to the hold that childhood experience has on personal values and notions of social class, despite the upward mobility that is the great promise of American democracy.

The Doolittle Family in America

Author : William Frederick Doolittle
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342952328
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Doolittle Family in America written by William Frederick Doolittle and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Ned Kelly

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0857982095
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Ned Kelly written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs.

Kingsblood Royal

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Kingsblood Royal written by Sinclair Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Kingsblood is a white middle-class man who discovers, while researching his family background, that he is directly descended from an African adventurer on the American frontier. Through various machinations, Kingsblood loses his banking job and takes a lesser one. He begins to be treated differently by former acquaintances, despite the lack of visible black African ancestry. He is forced to choose between continuing what he has come to see as a hollow existence in the white community and taking on the oppressed minority status of the black community. After Kingsblood tells several white friends about his newfound ancestry, the news quickly spreads, and he finds that acquaintances change their behavior toward him. He engages in a quixotic struggle against the racism newly apparent but widespread in his community.

Up and Down California in 1860-1864

Author : William Henry Brewer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520027626
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Up and Down California in 1860-1864 written by William Henry Brewer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and descriptions. So much of interest is contained in every entry that each re-reading will reveal many interesting incidents or observations not quite grasped on the first perusal....This book will be a valuable source to all students of California or United States history and to the casual readers as well.

Baseball Fiends and Flying Machines

Author : Jerry Kuntz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786443758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Baseball Fiends and Flying Machines written by Jerry Kuntz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alfred had a long career as a player, manager, and minor league organizer before gaining notoriety as a utopian novelist, philosopher, economic reformer, cult leader, and early aviation promoter. George was a soldier, vaudeville troupe manager, performing hypnotist, medical quack, evangelist, and anti-KKK crusader who sought to break baseball's color line by founding integrated leagues"--Provided by publisher.