
Wicked Milwaukee
Local historian Yance Marti uncovers the rough and rowdy blackguards who once made Milwaukee infamous.
The Cream City of yesteryear was a dingy haven for scofflaws and villains. Red-light districts peppered downtown's landscape, but none had the enduring allure of River Street, where Kitty Williams and Mary Kingsley operated high-class brothels. Chinese opium dens flourished in the backrooms of laundries. The demise of the Whiskey Ring brought down local distillers in a nationwide scandal that nearly reached the Oval Office. As a result, Police Chief John Janssen and the Committee to Investigate White Slavery and Kindred Vice waged a protracted battle to contain the most brazen offenses.
- Författare
- Yance V. Marti
- ISBN
- 9781467138383
- Språk
- Engelska
- Vikt
- 277 gram
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2018-10-01
- Förlag
- History Press
- Sidor
- 128