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Wicked Portland : the wild and lusty underworld of a frontier seaport town
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- Creator
- Finn J.D. John
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781609495787, 1609495780
- OCLC
- ocn793223749
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-142).
- A wide-open frontier city -- Portland saloons and gambling dens -- North end girls -- America's most pernicious Shanghai city -- Fixing the police -- Mayors behaving badly -- World's dumbest drug smugglers -- Wicked politics -- The end of the golden age
Subjects
- Crime -- Oregon -- Portland -- History -- Anecdotes.
- Violence -- Oregon -- Portland -- History -- Anecdotes.
- Corruption -- Oregon -- Portland -- History -- Anecdotes.
- Portland (Or.) -- Moral conditions -- Anecdotes.
- Portland (Or.) -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes.
- Portland (Or.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes.