(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Relive Kansas City's fascinating past through its amazing present. Kansas City is often seen as a 'cowtown" with great barbecue and steaks. But it is also a city with more boulevards than Paris and more working fountains than Rome. There are burial mounds that date back more than two thousand years. The National World War I Museum and Memorial, opened in 1926, stands more than two hundred feet tall. Leila's Hair Museum has a collection that brings...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American collection of heirloom recipes from a chef's point of view designed for home cooking. Award-winning chefs Colby and Megan Garrelts present 50 handcrafted recipes passed down through generations and celebrated around American tables ... Acclaimed chefs and recipient of the 2013 James Beard award for Best Chef Midwest, Colby and Megan Garrelts feature their favorite library of American classics redefined by easy, chef inspired techniques,...
4) Kansas City
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Where can you visit world-class art museums, eat finger-licking barbecue, and marvel at dozens of fountains? Kansas City! Take a trip to this great Midwestern city and get ready for a friendly welcome!"--Back cover.
Series
Language
English
Description
Take off on a thrilling journey in 'Over Kansas City'! Get amazing views of downtown against a setting sun, float above the Kansas and Missouri rivers, and peer down between skyscrapers before sweeping out of the city. Fly beyond the city limits and take in the beauty of lush meadows, gentle rolling hills and farmland in this film previously enjoyed on public television.
Author
Language
English
Description
Doris Markham's story takes you back to Kansas City in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as rural Missouri at the turn of the twentieth century. Join Doris on her escapades through three marriages and a dozen boyfriends. Follow one spirited country girl's struggles to survive in Kansas City when it was a wild town, with illegal gambling, speakeasies, gangsters, barbecue and jazz.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request