By Matthew J. Prigge
From homicide and matchstick males to all-consuming fires, painted girls, and nice Lakes disasters--and the wide-eyed public who couldn't support yet gawk at it all--"Milwaukee Mayhem" uncovers the little-remembered and barely instructed historical past of the underbelly of a Midwestern city. "Milwaukee Mayhem" bargains a brand new point of view on Milwaukee's early years, forgoing the foremost ancient signposts present in conventional histories and focusing as a substitute at the unusual and brutal stories of poser, vice, homicide, and catastrophe that have been born of the city's transformation from lakeside payment to American city. writer Matthew J. Prigge offers those tales as they have been stated to the general public within the newspapers of the period, utilizing the vibrant and sometimes grim language of the days to create an attractive and sometimes chilling narrative of a forgotten Milwaukee.
Through his considerate creation, Prigge supplies the paintings context, eschewing assumptions approximately "simpler instances" and highlighting the mayhem that the expansion and upward thrust of a urban can lead to. those tales are the orphans of Milwaukee's historical past, too strange to check in in large ancient narratives, too unusual to qualify as nostalgia, yet however necessary to our knowing of this American city.
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