The Gate City

by Larsen, Lawrence H.; Cottrell, Barbara J.

• ISBN13: 9780803279674
• ISBN10: 0803279671
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-28
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

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