Missouris Wicked Route 66

Author : Lisa Livingston-Martin
Publisher : Wicked
ISBN 13 : 9781609497668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missouri's Wicked Route 66 written by Lisa Livingston-Martin and published by Wicked. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Route 66 through Missouri represents one of America's favorite exercises in nostalgia, but a discerning glance among the roadside weeds reveals the kind of sordid history that doesn't appear on postcards. Along with vintage cars and picnic baskets, Route 66 was a conduit humming with contraband and crackling with the gunplay of folks like Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse James and the Young brothers. It was also the preferred byway of lynch mobs, murderous hitchhikers and mad scientists. Stop in at places like the Devil's Elbow and the Steffleback Bordello on this trip through the more treacherous twists of the Mother Road.

Author : Lisa Livingston-Martin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614238715
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missouri's Wicked Route 66 written by Lisa Livingston-Martin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Route 66 through Missouri represents one of America's favorite exercises in nostalgia, but a discerning glance among the roadside weeds reveals the kind of sordid history that doesn't appear on postcards. Along with vintage cars and picnic baskets, Route 66 was a conduit humming with contraband and crackling with the gunplay of folks like Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse James and the Young brothers. It was also the preferred byway of lynch mobs, murderous hitchhikers and mad scientists. Stop in at places like the Devil's Elbow and the Steffleback Bordello on this trip through the more treacherous twists of the Mother Road.

Author : Joe Sonderman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738560304
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Route 66 in the Missouri Ozarks written by Joe Sonderman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Route 66 in the Missouri Ozarks picks up the journey west where its companion book, Route 66 in St. Louis, leaves off. As Bobby Troup's song says, Route 66 travels "more than 2,000 miles all the way." But one would be hard-pressed to "Show Me" a more scenic and historic segment than the Missouri Ozarks. The highway is lined with buildings covered with distinctive Ozark rock. It winds through a region of deep forests, sparkling streams, hidden caves, and spectacular bluffs. This book will take the traveler from Crawford County to the Kansas line. Along the way, there are small towns and urban centers, hotels and motels, cafés and souvenir stands. Take the time to explore Missouri's Route 66--it is waiting at the next exit.

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312281617
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Route 66, 75th Anniversary Edition written by Michael Wallis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-06-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Definitive book on the most famous road in American history.

Author : Janice Tremeear
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614233438
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wicked St. Louis written by Janice Tremeear and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch a duel on Bloody Island from the stern of a river pirate's ship and be glad that Abraham Lincoln did not have to keep his appointment. Venture into a brothel where a madam's grin was filled with diamonds or where "Ta Ra Ra Boom de Ay" was hummed for the first time. Witness children forced into labor and aristocrats driven to suicide. Keep company with the gangsters who were a little too "cuckoo" for Al Capone. Visit Wicked St. Louis.

Author : Joe Sonderman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439666504
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Route 66 in Missouri written by Joe Sonderman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Route 66 is the "Main Street of America," heralded in song and popular culture. It took a maze of different routes through St. Louis before slashing diagonally across the "Show-Me State" through the beauty of the Ozarks. In between, there are classic motels, diners, tourist traps, and gas stations bathed in flashing and whirling neon lights. Natural wonders include crystal-clear streams, majestic bluffs, and wondrous caverns. Roadside marketers concocted legends about Jesse James, painted advertisements on barns, lived with deadly snakes, or offered curios such as pottery and handwoven baskets. That spirit is alive today at the Wagon Wheel and the Munger-Moss, the Mule, Meramec Caverns, and Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, just to name a few. Their stories are included here.

Author : Larry Wood
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614237174
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wicked Springfield, Missouri written by Larry Wood and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its founding in the early 1830s, Springfield was a rough frontier town where whiskey flowed freely, gunplay and fistfights abounded and gambling thrived. The Civil War not only brought the horror of warfare home to Springfield but also introduced worldly vices like prostitution that were scarcely known in previous years. Yet throughout its history, Springfield has managed to maintain a veneer of respectability not shared by certain other towns of southwest Missouri that were founded as wild, wide-open mining camps, like Joplin and Granby. Join Larry Wood as he digs beneath the surface of Queen City history to expose notorious characters and capers that would make even Joplinites blush.

Author : Lisa Livingston-Martin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614236844
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Joplin written by Lisa Livingston-Martin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Native American societies to the Civil War to the crime spree of Bonnie and Clyde, Joplin’s history leaves spirited legends in its wake . . . The barrier between Joplin’s boisterous past and its present is as flimsy as a swinging saloon door. Lisa Livingston-Martin kicks it wide open in this ghostly history. In her expert company, tour a hotel with a reputation made from equal parts opulence and tragedy. Visit that house of horrors, the Stefflebeck Bordello, where guests regularly got the axe and were disposed of in mine shafts. Navigate through angry lynch mobs and vengeful patrols of Civil War spirits. Catch a glimpse of Bonnie and Clyde. Keep your wits about you—it’s haunted Joplin. Includes photos! “There may be as many non-living residents of Joplin as there are live ones, according to Haunted Joplin.” —The Morning Sun

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312082851
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Route 66 written by Michael Wallis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the legendary road, Route 66, begun in the early 1920s that covered 2400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Author : Brian Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578757742
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Route 66 1955 written by Brian Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book is about a family traveling on Route 66 in the mid-fifties. The family travels to Sullivan Missouri to attend a wedding on Memorial Day weekend.