Wicked Portland
Subtitle: the wild and lusty underworld of a frontier seaport town
By: Finn J.D. John
Publisher: History Press; The History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781609495787
Subjects: Anecdotes; Violence; Crime; Social conditions; Moral conditions; Corruption; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A wide-open frontier city; title: Portland saloons and gambling dens; title: North end girls; title: America's most pernicious Shanghai city; title: Fixing the police; title: Mayors behaving badly; title: World's dumbest drug smugglers; title: Wicked politics; title: The end of the golden age.