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The One Opponent Gotch Feared Could Beat Him Wrestling fans believed no living man could defeat World Champion Frank Gotch. To stimulate fan interest, Gotch's manager lured Stanislaus Zbyszko, a...

The Gimmick That Saved the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in 1913, it left a void that many promoters tried to fill with...

The early years of one of the top two legitimate professional wrestlers of all-timeMyths and tall tales obscure the true history of Ed "Strangler" Lewis' early years in professional wrestling.How...

Lewis, Burns, Jenkins and Gotch, Legendary Wrestlers of the Legitimate Era In January 1881, Edwin Bibby defeated Duncan C. Ross to establish the first American based title, the American Heavyweight...

The Deadliest Twenty Year Period for the St. Louis Police Bank Robberies. Prohibition. Civil War Within Egan's Rats. This book focuses on the St. Louis Police Department during the deadliest decades...

Who captured members of the Wild Bunch? Solved a nationally known 1893 train robbery? WHo helped to capture H.H. Holmes, America's first serial killer?Not a Western sheriff nor a Pinkerton agent...

Famous robbers. A Trunk Murder. The deadliest incident in St. Louis Police history. This book focuses on the St. Louis Police shortly after the reorganization of the department in the 1860s to 1909...

The first Japanese professional wrestler in the United States In late 1883, Kojiro Matsuda, a former Sumo wrestler named Torakichi, traveled to the United States to learn professional wrestling...