Author: Ryan Roenfeld
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300818786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
From the outside it looks like a stately home. Inside, it''s quite different. Just 18 rotary cell jails were ever build. Most were promptly condemned as unsafe and cruel, but the biggest one lasted the longest, its three story 90,000 pound rotating cell block serving as the Pottawattamie County jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa from 1885 until 1969. This book is the second in a series, exploring the conditions of local incarceration before the "squirrel cage" was built, and goes into detail of the crimes of some of those who called it "home" over the years.
Tales From the Squirrel Cage Jail Volume 2
Author: Ryan Roenfeld
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300818786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
From the outside it looks like a stately home. Inside, it''s quite different. Just 18 rotary cell jails were ever build. Most were promptly condemned as unsafe and cruel, but the biggest one lasted the longest, its three story 90,000 pound rotating cell block serving as the Pottawattamie County jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa from 1885 until 1969. This book is the second in a series, exploring the conditions of local incarceration before the "squirrel cage" was built, and goes into detail of the crimes of some of those who called it "home" over the years.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300818786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
From the outside it looks like a stately home. Inside, it''s quite different. Just 18 rotary cell jails were ever build. Most were promptly condemned as unsafe and cruel, but the biggest one lasted the longest, its three story 90,000 pound rotating cell block serving as the Pottawattamie County jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa from 1885 until 1969. This book is the second in a series, exploring the conditions of local incarceration before the "squirrel cage" was built, and goes into detail of the crimes of some of those who called it "home" over the years.
The Rotary Jail
Author: W.C. Madden
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476629137
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The rotary jail was a very unusual architectural design. In response to a need for better control over prisoners, 18 of the revolving, escape-proof structures were erected in the United States from 1882 through 1889. There were problems. There were mechanical difficulties due to the extreme weight of the components. Unwary prisoners lost digits or limbs when carousels were rotated without warning--one lost his life. Because inmates could only be let out of their cells one at a time, some rotary jails were closed as fire hazards. This book describes in detail their construction, operation and eventual demise, as well as some of the colorful inmates that were held in them.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476629137
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The rotary jail was a very unusual architectural design. In response to a need for better control over prisoners, 18 of the revolving, escape-proof structures were erected in the United States from 1882 through 1889. There were problems. There were mechanical difficulties due to the extreme weight of the components. Unwary prisoners lost digits or limbs when carousels were rotated without warning--one lost his life. Because inmates could only be let out of their cells one at a time, some rotary jails were closed as fire hazards. This book describes in detail their construction, operation and eventual demise, as well as some of the colorful inmates that were held in them.
Tales From the Squirrel Cage Jail
Author: Ryan Roenfeld
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557095506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
A history of the 1885 "Squirrel Cage" rotary cell jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and information about some of the colorful prisoners housed there over the years and their crimes.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557095506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
A history of the 1885 "Squirrel Cage" rotary cell jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and information about some of the colorful prisoners housed there over the years and their crimes.
The Great Iowa Touring Book
Author: Mike Whye
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599351
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
For many people, Iowa is a series of rest stops, gas stops, and places to grab some food as they travel the interstate highways that cross the state. However, if one leaves the major routes and takes to the back roads, there's a lot more to this state than what's seen near the interstate exits. This guidebook has 27 auto tours encompassing urban and rural areas--back roads and byways, well-known and little-known places, the famous and the infamous, rivers big and small, great lakes and rare ponds, prairie and forests, plains and hills, old settlements, and brand new communities.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599351
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
For many people, Iowa is a series of rest stops, gas stops, and places to grab some food as they travel the interstate highways that cross the state. However, if one leaves the major routes and takes to the back roads, there's a lot more to this state than what's seen near the interstate exits. This guidebook has 27 auto tours encompassing urban and rural areas--back roads and byways, well-known and little-known places, the famous and the infamous, rivers big and small, great lakes and rare ponds, prairie and forests, plains and hills, old settlements, and brand new communities.
Iowa Big Reproducible Activity Book-New Version
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Gallopade International
ISBN: 0635085704
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Big Iowa Activity Book! 100+ activities, from Kindergarten-easy to Fourth/Fifth-challenging! This big activity book has a wide range of reproducible activities including coloring, dot-to-dot, mazes, matching, word search, and many other creative activities that will entice any student to learn more about Iowa. Activities touch on history, geography, people, places, fictional characters, animals, holidays, festivals, legends, lore, and more.
Publisher: Gallopade International
ISBN: 0635085704
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Big Iowa Activity Book! 100+ activities, from Kindergarten-easy to Fourth/Fifth-challenging! This big activity book has a wide range of reproducible activities including coloring, dot-to-dot, mazes, matching, word search, and many other creative activities that will entice any student to learn more about Iowa. Activities touch on history, geography, people, places, fictional characters, animals, holidays, festivals, legends, lore, and more.
The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912: A guide to records of the Department of the Interior for the territorial period, Section 1: Records of the Offices of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Railroads. Section 2: Records of select agencies. Section 3. Records of the General Land Office
Author:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912
Author:
Publisher: National Archives & Records Administration
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: National Archives & Records Administration
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2086
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2086
Book Description
The foundations-v. 2. The sea-stories.-v.3. The fall
Author: John Ruskin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Northwest and Great Plains 1990
Author: Mobil
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780135871553
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780135871553
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description