Walrus With A Gold Tooth: Crime in Anchorage, Alaska-the Pioneer Way-Unorganized!

by Steven Levi

Overview

In the two decades between the Second World War and the Great Alaska Earthquake, Anchorage grew by a factor of 10. Money was, quite literally, washing down the street. The economic boom was so great that all you needed to make a million dollars was a cash register. At the same time Anchorage was one of the few cities in America where organized crime never got a firm foothold. Uptown, downtown, out of town, the locals were clever enough to keep the East Coast families out. Walrus With A Gold Tooth is a fictionalized version of crime in Anchorage over these two decades and a step-by-step history of how the local squeezed out the mob before it ever made it in. And if you know your Anchorage history, you just might be able to determine which characters are actual people whose names have been changed to protect the guilty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594334863
Publisher:	Publication Consultants
Publication date:	09/15/2014
Series:	Walrus with a Gold Tooth: Crime in Anchorage, Alaska--the Pioneer Way--Unorganized!
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	622 KB

About the Author

Steven C. Levi, an Alaska historian and writer, is a 40-year resident of Anchorage and has 80 books in print and. His nonfiction books on Alaska history include Boom to Bust in the Alaska Gold Fields, an historical forensic investigation into the sinking of Alaska's ghost ship, the Clara Nevada, as well as a history of Alaska's bush pilot heritage, Cowboys of the Sky. Levi believes that his books – both fiction and nonfiction – should be readable, understandable and educational. They must be all three for the reader to keep turning the pages. He is also dedicated to making history interesting to young readers. His, Making History Interesting To Students series, is a collection of eight books specifically written to teach middle and high school students what they are supposed to be learning in their history classes.