
- 96 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Visit the wicked Fox Cities, full of place names like La Grand Butte des Morts ("the Big Hill of the Dead") and Winneconne ("the Place of Skulls") that date from an era when "settlement" was frequently synonymous with "slaughter." Even after the firm establishment of modern civilization, there remained an uneasy truce between lined pockets and bared knuckles that was often only brokered by heavy drinking. Stumble across the frozen Fox River and barge into local watering holes, where the only pauses in the revelry are discussions about desecrating Joe McCarthy's grave. Points of interest include the Oshkosh rat-betting scene, the Appleton "Union Street Resorts" and the Neenah tavern, where a world-champion boxer hid from the doctor who had bought his bones.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue. Sedan Day
- Chapter 1. Hills of the Dead
- Chapter 2. Big Trouble on Little Lake Butte des Morts: The Fox Wars
- Chapter 3. The Great Cedar Point Swindle
- Chapter 4. The Lost Boy
- Chapter 5. Fifty Ways to Die in a Nineteenth-Century Industrial Accident
- Chapter 6. Immigrants, Tramps and Thieves
- Chapter 7. Sin City, the Second Mrs. Paige and Lizzie McCourt
- Chapter 8. Crazy
- Chapter 9. Sex in the Cities
- Chapter 10. The Prizefighter
- Chapter 11. Appleton, 1936
- Chapter 12. Joe McCarthy’s Last Ride
- Epilogue. Poker Flats
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Author