The Gate City,9780803279674

The Gate City

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780803279674
ISBN10: 0803279671
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-07-28
Publisher(s): Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Author Biography

Lawrence H. Larsen is a professor of history at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is the author of The Urban South: A History (1990), Federal Justice in Western Missouri: The Judges, the Cases, the Times (1994), and other books.
 
Barbara J. Cottrell is a historian with the National Archives–Central Plains Region.
 
Harl A. Dalstrom is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
ix(4)
Preface xiii
Part One 1850-1870 1(60)
1. The Signal Station at the Entrance of a Garden
1(32)
2. A Little Pioneer Town
33(28)
Part Two 1870-1900 61(66)
3. Omaha Was Born with Her Fighting Garment
61(28)
4. The City Has Grown Too Fast
89(38)
PART THREE 1900-1930 127(66)
5. A Future Rich with Promise
127(28)
6. Laws that People Don't Believe in Can't be Enforced
155(38)
Part Four 1930-1960 193(50)
7. The Heart, Mind, and Body of Our Country
193(26)
8. At Heart It Is Still a City in the Making
219(24)
Part Five 1960-1980 243(54)
9. The Dynamics of Quality
243(28)
10. I Sensed a Restlessness
271(26)
Conclusion 1980-1997 297(24)
Harl A. Dalstrom
11. We Don't Want a Bull on a Pedestal
297(24)
For Further Reading 321(24)
Index 345

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