Wicked New Orleans : The Dark Side of the Big Easy

by Taylor, Troy

• ISBN13: 9781596299450
• ISBN10: 1596299452
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-28
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Since as early as the 1700s, New Orleans has been a city filled with sin and vice. Those first pioneering citizens of the Big Easy were thieves, vagabonds and criminals of all kinds. By the time Louisiana fell under American control, New Orleans had become a city of debauchery and corruption camouflaged by decadence. It was also considered one of the country's most dangerous cities, with a reputation of crime and loose morals. Rampant gambling and prostitution were the norm in nineteenth-century New Orleans, and over one-third of today's French Quarter was considered a hotbed of sin. Tales in this volume include that of the notorious Axeman who plagued the streets of the Crescent City in the early 1900s and Kate Townsend, a prostitute who was murdered by her own lover, a man who later was awarded her inheritance. Troy Taylor takes a look back at New Orleans's early wicked days and historic crimes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 7
A City Born in Sin	p. 9
The Bloody Field of Honor	p. 23
Under the Black Flag: The Pirate Jean Lafitte	p. 31
"Roll the Bones": Gambling in New Orleans	p. 43
"Hell on Earth": New Orleans Crime and Vice	p. 63
From Basin Street to Storyville: Prostitution in New Orleans	p. 79
The Mafia in New Orleans	p. 105
The Axeman's Jazz: New Orleans's Most Mysterious Unsolved Murders	p. 115
Bibliography	p. 125
About the Author	p. 127
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