Cream City Chronicles: Stories of Milwaukee's Past by Gurda, John

Cream City Chronicles: Stories of Milwaukee's Past (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780870207587)

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Format: Paperback
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Cream City Chronicles: Stories of Milwaukee's Past by Gurda, John

Cream City Chronicles: Stories of Milwaukee's Past

$18.95
Cream City Chronicles: Stories of Milwaukee's Past by Gurda, John

Cream City Chronicles: Stories of Milwaukee's Past

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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Cream City Chronicles is a collection of lively stories about the people, the events, the landmarks, and the institutions that have made Milwaukee a unique American community. These stories represent the best of historian John Gurda's popular Sunday columns that have appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel since 1994. Find yourself transported back to another time, when the village of Milwaukee was home to fur trappers and traders. Follow the development of Milwaukee's distinctive neighborhoods, its rise as a port city and industrial center, and its changing political climate. From singing mayors to summer festivals, from blueblood weddings to bloody labor disturbances, the collection offers a generous sampling of tales that express the true character of a hometown metropolis.

Author: John Gurda
ISBN-10: 087020758X
ISBN-13: 9780870207587
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2016
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
By John Gurda
By John Gurda
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John Gurda is a Milwaukee-born writer and historian who has been studying his hometown since 1972. He is the author of twenty-one books, including histories of Milwaukee-area neighborhoods, churches, and industries. He is also a photographer, lecturer, and local history columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Gurda is an eight-time winner of the Wisconsin Historical Society's Award of Merit. The common thread in all his work is an understanding of history as "why things are the way they are."

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