``Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press``Omaha, Nebraska, is a laid-back city in America s heartland.
Kansas City newspaper..
If you want to find a rogue s rookery, go to Omaha. . . .
It requires but little if any, stretch of the imagination to regard Omaha as a cesspool of iniquity, for it is given up to lawlessness and is overrun with a horde of fugitives from justice and dangerous men of all kinds who carry things with a high hand and a loose rein.
Along the way there were scores of great stories.
Omaha grew from a speculative scheme in 1854 to a booming city.
In the nineteenth century, however, it had a very different reputation. ``Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press``Omaha, Nebraska, is a laid-back city in America s heartland
