With a quarter of a million citizens and ships from the mighty Mississippi river depositing strangers in the city every day, someone was always causing trouble for someone else. And every year there was a long, hot summer plagued with the constant threat of yellow fever. There were too many bankruptcies, lottery swindles, and drunken sailors to count. There were duels in City Park and gunfights on Canal Street. And I trekked into all of New Orleans’ Gilded Age history to write my debut mystery FANNY NEWCOMB & THE IRISH CHANNEL RIPPER.įor starters, there was an assassination that was followed by lynchings (1890), an all-out political insurrection (1874), and a riot that killed 28 people (1900). Anna Brazil, author of Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel RipperSAN MATEO, CA, USA, Decem/ / - Although late 19th century New Orleans was renowned for the hookers of Storyville, the devastating hurricanes of the 1880s, and the elevation of Mardi Gras to a state holiday, there’s so much more to know about the Crescent City during this time.
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