Jack Jones Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 Currently reading: 1. So Terrible a Storm: A tale of Fury on Lake Superior by Curt Brown 2. Live by Night by Dennis Lehane 3. One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson "Thanks to Mother Mercy, Thanks to Brother Wine, Another night is over and we're walking down the line" - David Mallett
Quillback Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 Just read "The Last Stand" - Custer, Sitting Bull, and the battle of the Little Bighorn. Nathaniel Philbrick. A good read, much more than a blow by blow account of the battle, quite a bit of biographical information on the participants and their families.
Justin Spencer Posted August 10, 2014 Posted August 10, 2014 Finishing up Catch 22, pretty entertaining book. Many of the conversations remind me of ones we have with our drunk campers that have trouble with comprehension. "The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it." –Abraham Lincoln Tales of an Ozark Campground Proprietor Dead Drift Fly Shop
Mitch f Posted August 10, 2014 Posted August 10, 2014 Reading Moby Dick, man it's long. I can help....this dude is obsessed with a fish that tore off his leg long ago. Try's to get revenge but the fish is a lot bigger and offs him in the end. "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
Justin Spencer Posted August 10, 2014 Posted August 10, 2014 I can help....this dude is obsessed with a fish that tore off his leg long ago. Try's to get revenge but the fish is a lot bigger and offs him in the end. wish you had posted that back in October! "The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it." –Abraham Lincoln Tales of an Ozark Campground Proprietor Dead Drift Fly Shop
Mitch f Posted August 10, 2014 Posted August 10, 2014 It wasn't a fish... Yes, you're right.....gives birth to live young. But it was white!?!?! "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
ness Posted March 7, 2015 Author Posted March 7, 2015 Reading 'Mobsters in our Midst' by William Ousley, a retired FBI guy who was in the organized crime unit in KC. I've always kinda liked mafia stuff. I grew up in KC in the 70s, when there was a lot of mob activity. Bombings, shootings, arson, whatever. My brother went to high school with the son of a guy that was gunned down in a pretty famous mob shooting. Not saying we were in the thick of things, but we were in the proximity. KC was a bigger deal in the national crime scene than its small size and Midwest location would lead you to believe. KC's boss (Nick Civella) was at the famous national mafia confab in Apalachin, NY in 1957 that was raided by police. That bust was a turning point in that it proved there was a national crime syndicate run by Italian-Americans--something that was up for debate at the time. Also, the KC family was deeply involved in the corruption of the Teamsters, and Civella was instrumental in steering their pension fund money into Las Vegas casinos that were mob controlled. That set them up for the skimming that was making the KC guys rich. The FBI 'Strawman' operation cracked it and became the basis of the movie 'Casino'. Anyhow, it's a really interesting and detailed account of those days. John
Quillback Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 Thanks Ness, I've read some Mafia stuff myself and also quite a bit about the depression era gangsters. 'Public Enemies' by Bryan Burrough is a good book about the Depression era crime wave and the birth of the FBI. The investigation into the "Kansas City massacre" where 4 police officers who were escorting gangster Frank Nash were gunned down outside the KC railway station is part of the book. Dillenger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson - covers them all. And of course the FBI's involvement in all this. Hot Springs AR gets mentioned quite a bit, the place was a gangster vacation spot back then. ness 1
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