Wicked Tacoma

Tacoma, the city where the rails meet the sails, has always been a place of innovation and rule-breakers. When the railroad came in the nineteenth century, business boomed, along with smuggling, bootlegging and prostitution. Men such as Peter Sandberg walked the line between criminal and respectable. Police in the growing town had their hands full not just with human criminals, but with stray cows, ducks and the occasional bear. Rumor has it that in the 1920s, gangsters Lucky Luciano and Frank Nitti were sent to cool their heels in the port city and may have been behind a smoke bomb attack on a movie theater. Join author Karla Stover as she delves into the wild and colorful past of the City of Destiny.

Author: Karla Stover
Publisher: History Press
Published: 06/28/2021
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.40w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781467148443
ISBN10: 146714844X
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
- True Crime | Historical
- History | Social History