New From Peter bronson and chilidog press
Promised Land
How the Midwest Was Won
Peter Bronson is the author of several popular regional bestsellers about the exciting history of the Cincinnati region. Readers who enjoyed his previous hit, The Man Who Saved Cincinnati, can come along for another fascinating journey to discover the thrilling history of the Miami Valley and Northern Kentucky. Go back in time to meet the courageous people who founded Ohio and tamed the Northwest Territory:
Who were the mysterious Mound Builders who worshipped serpents and built massive mounds and earthworks in Ohio 3,000 years ago?
Meet the fearless Revolutionary War veterans who risked their lives to settle Cincinnati when it was known as “The Miami Slaughterhouse” because of the brutal massacres by the Miami and Shawnee Indians.
Read the forgotten story of how Cincinnati leaders risked everything to save Texas in 1836.
Learn about the huge conspiracy hatched in Cincinnati, to build a vast slave empire and kill the president, called The Knights of the Golden Circle.
Meet the hero “Mad Anthony” Wayne, who defeated the Indian Confederation and opened the Northwest Territory—and the jealous assassin who plotted to kill him.
The Man Who
Saved Cincinnati
In 1862, the Queen City was the sixth largest city in the nation—twice the size of Chicago, four times bigger than San Franciso. And it was under siege by an army of 10,000 Confederates, who came to loot and burn Cincinnati.
Learn the story of the heroic young general, Lew Wallace, who refused to let Cincinnati surrender and stopped the Confederates in their tracks. In just three days he turned the defenseless, panicked city into a fortress, saving the city and thereby saving the Union from disaster and a far different outcome of the Civil War.
Lew Wallace created the first Black Brigade in the Union Army, rescued Washington DC from capture, stopped a bloody range war, captured Billy the Kid, fought an Apache war in New Mexico and wrote an American classic, Ben-Hur.
forbidden fruit
sin city’s underworld and the supper club inferno
The Beverly Hills Supper Club was Vegas before Vegas was cool.
But few knew that the Beverly Hills had a violent past of deadly arson, beginning in 1936, when it was taken over by the Cleveland mob that ran "Sin City" in Newport, Kentucky — an open “Little Mexico” of prostitution, extortion, gambling, bootleg booze and violence. The Syndicate reigned for decades, until new U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy went to war against the Mob in 1961. His first target was Newport.
This is the amazing history of a criminal empire on the banks of the Ohio River, in the backyard of Ivory clean Cincinnati, and the war to clean it up that triggered a Mob vendetta against the Kennedys and the assassination of Bobby's brother, President John F. Kennedy. It's a story of mobsters, hookers, murder and dice; dirty cops, crooked politicians and the underworld bosses whose power reached into the FBI, Congress and the White House
The end came in a blaze that lit up the skies for miles, as the Beverly Hills Supper Club burned to the ground on Memorial Day weekend in 1977, killing 165 victims in one of the deadliest fires in U.S. History.
not in our town
the queen city vs the king of smut
Not In Our Town recounts the amazing, untold story of the Mob in Ohio and the gritty, dangerous battle to keep Cincinnati family-friendly and safe. Even lifelong Cincinnatians are surprised at the extensive research and pictures from the past, along with first-hand accounts that reveal…
The underworld network in Ohio cities
Mafia bosses who lived next door
Silent partners in Larry Flynt’s empire of porn
Police corruption and stag parties with hookers
The plot to blow up the U.S. Supreme Court
The CIA spy suspected in JFK’s assassination who worked for Larry Flynt
And much more…
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About PETER
Peter Bronson has been a reporter, editor and columnist at several newspapers including the Tucson Citizen and the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he was an associate editor and popular local columnist for almost 20 years. He has won numerous awards for writing, reporting and editing, including investigative reporting, public service, column writing and Best Editorial Page in Ohio four years in a row.
He has worked in magazines, on the radio and on TV, as a panelist on Arizona Illustrated on KUAT-TV in Tucson, and as co-host and producer of Hotseat, a WCPO-TV Cincinnati public affairs show. He lives in Milford, Ohio.
In 2003, he formed Chilidog Press to offer custom publishing options, one-on-one advice, coaching, editing and book design.
