America's Crossroads: Buffalo's Canal Street / Dante Place - The Making of a City

397 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations and photographs. Includes: Forward; Introduction; The Final Chapter; The Most Beautiful Meadows; Beginnings; The Nostrils of Hell; Fire and Damnation; Building Dwelling Houses; Predators and Prey; The Prizefight; The Captain's Tale; The War Years; Docks and Doxies; Les Miserables; Dug's Dive; Murder and Misery; The Captain, The Madam and the Judge; A Family Story; Brass Checks and Tin Whistles; Ludovick Jones, Reformer; Jack London in Jail; The Changing Tide; The Fourth of July; The Tenement Wars; Life in the Gutter; Sermons and Sandwiches; Our Lady of Mount Carmel; The New Life; Italians and the Press; The Longest Shadow; The Italian Era; Summer Farm Work; The Puppet Theater; Requiem and Rebirth; The Aud; Shadows Over Canal Street; The Verdict is In; Epilogue; The Search; Endnotes; Index.