Author: Adriana Herrera
Publisher: Adriana Herrera
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
She’s trapped between an angel and the devil. A jazz singer on the run. A rum runner on the edge. A gangster ready to risk it all. Rosalía Ferrer dreams of leaving her island behind and sailing north to sing in a New York City nightclub. Unfortunately, the only way to escape her father’s suffocating clutches is to align herself with two ruthless men. Putting her fate and body in the hands of a rum runner and a gangster is a risky gamble; but Rosalía will do whatever it takes to get what she wants…even if it means striking a dangerous deal.
Bootlegger's Bounty
Author: Adriana Herrera
Publisher: Adriana Herrera
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
She’s trapped between an angel and the devil. A jazz singer on the run. A rum runner on the edge. A gangster ready to risk it all. Rosalía Ferrer dreams of leaving her island behind and sailing north to sing in a New York City nightclub. Unfortunately, the only way to escape her father’s suffocating clutches is to align herself with two ruthless men. Putting her fate and body in the hands of a rum runner and a gangster is a risky gamble; but Rosalía will do whatever it takes to get what she wants…even if it means striking a dangerous deal.
Publisher: Adriana Herrera
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
She’s trapped between an angel and the devil. A jazz singer on the run. A rum runner on the edge. A gangster ready to risk it all. Rosalía Ferrer dreams of leaving her island behind and sailing north to sing in a New York City nightclub. Unfortunately, the only way to escape her father’s suffocating clutches is to align herself with two ruthless men. Putting her fate and body in the hands of a rum runner and a gangster is a risky gamble; but Rosalía will do whatever it takes to get what she wants…even if it means striking a dangerous deal.
Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era
Author: J. Anne Funderburg
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476616191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime--outrageous stories of America's most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476616191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime--outrageous stories of America's most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context
Author: Bryant Mangum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107009197
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
Explores many of the important social, historical and cultural contexts surrounding the life and works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107009197
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
Explores many of the important social, historical and cultural contexts surrounding the life and works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Cimarron and the Bootleggers
Author: Leo P. Kelley
Publisher: Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada
ISBN: 9780451134493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada
ISBN: 9780451134493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Bootleg Caper
Author: Jack Benlow
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 141161772X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
1929. Wall Street has crashed and the Great Depression dawns. Across America the attempt to keep the nation dry is failing. Illegal booze is king. Organised crime fights for bootleg territory on the streets. The Mob is at war. Into this cauldron steps a naive young Englishman, Jacob Wattworth. He dreams of movie stardom in Hollywood, but within days of stepping ashore in New York he becomes entangled with a rag-tag crew of raffish but lovable bootleggers led by chameleonic superwoman, Eleanor Macnamara. Murder, romance and comedy follow him from New York's mean streets to the frozen wilderness of Quebec's goldfields. Along the way, he engages with malevolent mobsters and colourful characters such as blind Colonel Selwyn Good and the flamboyant movie producer, Argus D. Lasalle. Always in love, but rarely in luck. Jacob is the plaything of events beyond his control. Even though his mentors, his girl, his friends, desert him or die, his optimism always sustains him.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 141161772X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
1929. Wall Street has crashed and the Great Depression dawns. Across America the attempt to keep the nation dry is failing. Illegal booze is king. Organised crime fights for bootleg territory on the streets. The Mob is at war. Into this cauldron steps a naive young Englishman, Jacob Wattworth. He dreams of movie stardom in Hollywood, but within days of stepping ashore in New York he becomes entangled with a rag-tag crew of raffish but lovable bootleggers led by chameleonic superwoman, Eleanor Macnamara. Murder, romance and comedy follow him from New York's mean streets to the frozen wilderness of Quebec's goldfields. Along the way, he engages with malevolent mobsters and colourful characters such as blind Colonel Selwyn Good and the flamboyant movie producer, Argus D. Lasalle. Always in love, but rarely in luck. Jacob is the plaything of events beyond his control. Even though his mentors, his girl, his friends, desert him or die, his optimism always sustains him.
Conservation of Renewable Resources
Author: Edwin Monroe Dahlberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Medicine Line
Author: Beth LaDow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135296081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Along the border between Montana and Saskatchewan lies one hundred miles of hard and desolate terrain, a remote place where Native and new American nations came together in a contest for land, wealth, and survival. Following explorers Lewis and Clark and Alexander Mackenzie, both Americans and Canadians launched the process of empire along the 49th parallel, disrupting the lives of Native peoples who began to traverse this imaginary line in search of refuge. In this evocative and beautifully rendered portrait, Beth LaDow recreates the unstable world along this harsh frontier, capturing the complex history of a borderland known as "the medicine line" to the Indians who lived there. When Sitting Bull crossed the boundary for the last time in 1881, weary of pursuit by the U.S. cavalry and the constant threat of starvation, the region opened up to railroad men and settlers, determined to make a living. But the unforgiving landscape would resist repeated attempts to subdue it, from the schemes of powerful railroad magnate James J. Hill, to the exploits of Canadian Mountie James Walsh, to the misguided dreams of ranchers and homesteaders, whose difficult existence is best captured in Wallace Stegner's plaintive accounts of a boyhood spent in this stark place. Drawing on little-known diaries, letters, and memories, as well as interviews with the descendants of settlers and native peoples, The Medicine Line reveals how national interests were transformed by the powerful alchemy of mingling peoples and the place they shared. With a historian's insight and a storyteller's gift, LaDow questions some of our deepest assumptions about a nationalist frontier past and finds in this least-known place a new historical and emotional heart-land of the North American West. A colorful history of the most desolate terrain in America, one hundred miles between Canada & Montana, where three nations fought over land, wealth, & ultimately survival
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135296081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Along the border between Montana and Saskatchewan lies one hundred miles of hard and desolate terrain, a remote place where Native and new American nations came together in a contest for land, wealth, and survival. Following explorers Lewis and Clark and Alexander Mackenzie, both Americans and Canadians launched the process of empire along the 49th parallel, disrupting the lives of Native peoples who began to traverse this imaginary line in search of refuge. In this evocative and beautifully rendered portrait, Beth LaDow recreates the unstable world along this harsh frontier, capturing the complex history of a borderland known as "the medicine line" to the Indians who lived there. When Sitting Bull crossed the boundary for the last time in 1881, weary of pursuit by the U.S. cavalry and the constant threat of starvation, the region opened up to railroad men and settlers, determined to make a living. But the unforgiving landscape would resist repeated attempts to subdue it, from the schemes of powerful railroad magnate James J. Hill, to the exploits of Canadian Mountie James Walsh, to the misguided dreams of ranchers and homesteaders, whose difficult existence is best captured in Wallace Stegner's plaintive accounts of a boyhood spent in this stark place. Drawing on little-known diaries, letters, and memories, as well as interviews with the descendants of settlers and native peoples, The Medicine Line reveals how national interests were transformed by the powerful alchemy of mingling peoples and the place they shared. With a historian's insight and a storyteller's gift, LaDow questions some of our deepest assumptions about a nationalist frontier past and finds in this least-known place a new historical and emotional heart-land of the North American West. A colorful history of the most desolate terrain in America, one hundred miles between Canada & Montana, where three nations fought over land, wealth, & ultimately survival
Summary of Jerry Bledsoe's Bitter Blood
Author: Milkyway Media
Publisher: Milkyway Media
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Get the Summary of Jerry Bledsoe's Bitter Blood in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Bitter Blood" by Jerry Bledsoe chronicles the harrowing tale of Delores Lynch, a wealthy widow, and her daughter Janie, whose lives were marked by routine, security, and faith. Delores's marriage to Charles "Chuck" Lynch, Jr., a General Electric executive, was strained by frequent relocations and her obsession with cleanliness. Despite their separate lives under one roof, Delores's life was tragically cut short when she was found shot in her home...
Publisher: Milkyway Media
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Get the Summary of Jerry Bledsoe's Bitter Blood in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Bitter Blood" by Jerry Bledsoe chronicles the harrowing tale of Delores Lynch, a wealthy widow, and her daughter Janie, whose lives were marked by routine, security, and faith. Delores's marriage to Charles "Chuck" Lynch, Jr., a General Electric executive, was strained by frequent relocations and her obsession with cleanliness. Despite their separate lives under one roof, Delores's life was tragically cut short when she was found shot in her home...
Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era
Author: J. Anne Funderburg
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786479612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime--outrageous stories of America's most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786479612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime--outrageous stories of America's most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.
The Line Riders
Author: Samuel K. Dolan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493055054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In January of 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect and the sale and manufacture of intoxicating spirits was outlawed. America had officially gone “dry.” For the next thirteen years, bootleggers and big city gangsters satisfied the country’s thirst with moonshine and contraband alcohol. On the US-Mexico border, a steady stream of black market booze flowed across the Rio Grande. Tasked with combating the liquor trade in the borderlands of the American Southwest were the “line riders” of the United States Customs Service and their colleagues in the Immigration Border Patrol. From late-night shootouts on the Rio Grande and the back alleys of El Paso, Texas, to long-range horseback pursuits across the deserts of Arizona, this book tells the little-known story of the long and deadly “liquor war” on the border during the 1920s and 1930s and highlights the evolution of the Border Patrol amidst the chaos of Prohibition. Spanning a nearly twenty-year period, from the end of World War I to repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and beyond, The Line Riders reveals an often overlooked and violent chapter in American history and introduces the officers that guarded the international boundary when the West was still wild.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493055054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In January of 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect and the sale and manufacture of intoxicating spirits was outlawed. America had officially gone “dry.” For the next thirteen years, bootleggers and big city gangsters satisfied the country’s thirst with moonshine and contraband alcohol. On the US-Mexico border, a steady stream of black market booze flowed across the Rio Grande. Tasked with combating the liquor trade in the borderlands of the American Southwest were the “line riders” of the United States Customs Service and their colleagues in the Immigration Border Patrol. From late-night shootouts on the Rio Grande and the back alleys of El Paso, Texas, to long-range horseback pursuits across the deserts of Arizona, this book tells the little-known story of the long and deadly “liquor war” on the border during the 1920s and 1930s and highlights the evolution of the Border Patrol amidst the chaos of Prohibition. Spanning a nearly twenty-year period, from the end of World War I to repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and beyond, The Line Riders reveals an often overlooked and violent chapter in American history and introduces the officers that guarded the international boundary when the West was still wild.