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A Dirty, Wicked Town
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: David L. Bristow
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-04 - Publisher: Caxton Press

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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press "It requires but little if any, stretch of the imagination to regard Omaha as a cesspool of ini
Nebraska History Moments
Language: en
Pages: 140
Authors: David L. Bristow
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07 - Publisher: History Nebraska

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Each page of this book uses a photo or artifact to tell a true story about the past, drawing from the extensive collections of History Nebraska.
Wicked Omaha
Language: en
Pages: 96
Authors: Ryan Roenfeld
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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In old Omaha, the scent of opium wafted through saloon doors, while prostitutes openly solicited customers. When the St. Elmo theater ran short of the usual ent
Lost Omaha
Language: en
Pages: 112
Authors: Janet R. Daly Bednarek
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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The landmarks of Omaha's past reveal a history of industry, innovation and change. The Hotel Fontenelle, the Omaha Athletic Club and the Medical Arts Building d
Wicked Portland
Language: en
Pages: 169
Authors: Finn J. D. John
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-04 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Tucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken brawling. In its early day