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Milwaukee Mayhem

Murder and Mystery in the Cream City's First Century

By: Matthew J. Prigge

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Milwaukee Mayhem

Murder and Mystery in the Cream City's First Century

By: Matthew J. Prigge

From murder and matchstick men to all-consuming fires, painted women, and Great Lakes disasters--and the wide-eyed public who could not help but gawk at it all--"Milwaukee Mayhem" uncovers the little-remembered and rarely told history of the underbelly of a Midwestern metropolis. "Milwaukee Mayhem" offers a new perspective on Milwaukee's early years, forgoing the major historical signposts found in traditional histories and focusing instead on the strange and brutal tales of mystery, vice, murder, and disaster that were born of the city's transformation from lakeside settlement to American metropolis. Author Matthew J. Prigge presents these stories as they were recounted to the public in the newspapers of the era, using the vivid and often grim language of the times to create an engaging and occasionally chilling narrative of a forgotten Milwaukee. Through his thoughtful introduction, Prigge gives the work context, eschewing assumptions about "simpler times" and highlighting the mayhem that the growth and rise of a city can bring about. These stories are the orphans of Milwaukee's history, too unusual to register in broad historic narratives, too strange to qualify as nostalgia, but nevertheless essential to our understanding of this American city.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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0870207172

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9780870207174

Manitowoc

By: Ed Prigge and Matthew J. Prigge

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Manitowoc

By: Ed Prigge and Matthew J. Prigge

Founded as a city in March 1870, Manitowoc was a thriving farming and port community with a diverse population of German, Irish, Polish, and Norwegian immigrants that grew into a manufacturing center on the Great Lakes and a picturesque home to generations of hardworking people. Vintage images highlight the people, businesses, and industries that make its fascinating and rich history. From pioneers and civic institutions, to the shops and factories that powered the local economy, to how everyday people worked and relaxed, Images of America: Manitowoc details over a century of memories and milestones through rarely seen archival photographs and a richly textured historical narrative.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467111473

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9781467111478

Milwaukee Mayhem

Murder and Mystery in the Cream City's First Century

By: Matthew J. Prigge

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Murder and Mystery in the Cream City's First Century

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Damn the Old Tinderbox!

Milwaukee’s Palace of the West and the Fire that Defined an Era

By: Matthew J. Prigge

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Damn the Old Tinderbox!

Milwaukee’s Palace of the West and the Fire that Defined an Era

By: Matthew J. Prigge

In the dead of an unassuming January night in 1883, Milwaukee’s Newhall House hotel was set on fire. Two hours later, the building—once among the tallest in the nation—lay in ruins and over seventy people were dead. It was a tragedy that brought global notice to Milwaukee, with daring escapes and rescues and heart-wrenching tales of victims burned to death or killed as they leapt from the burning building. From the great horror emerged an even greater string of mysteries: Who had set the fire and who was to blame for the staggering loss of life? The Newhall’s hard-luck barkeeper? A gentleman arsonist? What of the many other unexplained fires at the hotel? Had the Newhall’s management neglected fire safety to boost their profits? Damn the Old Tinderbox! is the gripping tale of one of the Gilded Age’s forgotten calamities, a fire that remains among the deadliest unsolved arsons in American history, and a significant chapter in both the history of Milwaukee and the Midwest.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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0870208829

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9780870208829

Opening Day in Milwaukee

The Brewers' Season Starters, 1970-2022

By: Matthew J. Prigge

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Opening Day in Milwaukee

The Brewers' Season Starters, 1970-2022

By: Matthew J. Prigge

Opening day in Milwaukee is an event like no other in baseball--all the pomp and reverence for the return of the season, with a tailgate party like only Brewers fans know how to throw. Each opener creates treasured memories, like Hank Aaron's return to Milwaukee, Sixto Lezcano's walk-off grand slam, the momentous opening of Miller Park, Lorenzo Cain's game-saving grab or the debuts of a couple of kids named Yount and Molitor. Chronicling a half-century of baseball lore, this book relives 53 home openers and the traditions, oddball characters, unlikely heroes and Hall of Fame legends they featured.

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270

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McFarland

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1476648638

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9781476648637

Damn the Old Tinderbox!

Milwaukee’s Palace of the West and the Fire that Defined an Era

By: Matthew J. Prigge

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Milwaukee’s Palace of the West and the Fire that Defined an Era

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Damn the Old Tinderbox!

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