Border City Blues 2-Book Bundle

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Michael Januska. Border City Blues 2-Book Bundle

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FALSE STARTS

— Chapter 1 —

— Chapter 2 —

— Chapter 3 —

— Chapter 4 —

— Chapter 5 —

— Chapter 6 —

— Chapter 7 —

FIRST GEAR

— Chapter 8 —

— Chapter 9 —

— Chapter 10 —

— Chapter 11 —

— Chapter 12 —

SECOND GEAR

— Chapter 13 —

— Chapter 14 —

— Chapter 15 —

— Chapter 16 —

— Chapter 17 —

— Chapter 18 —

— Chapter 19 —

— Chapter 20 —

— Chapter 21 —

— Chapter 22 —

— Chapter 23 —

— Chapter 24 —

— Chapter 25 —

— Chapter 26 —

— Chapter 27 —

— Chapter 28 —

— Chapter 29 —

— Chapter 30 —

— Chapter 31 —

— Chapter 32 —

THIRD GEAR

— Chapter 33 —

— Chapter 34 —

— Chapter 35 —

— Chapter 36 —

POSTSCRIPT

Maiden Lane

Dedication

Epigraph

Table of Contents

— Chapter 1 —

— Chapter 2 —

— Chapter 3 —

— Chapter 4 —

— Chapter 5 —

— Chapter 6 —

— Chapter 7 —

— Chapter 8 —

— Chapter 9 —

— Chapter 10 —

— Chapter 11 —

— Chapter 12 —

— Chapter 13 —

— Chapter 14 —

— Chapter 15 —

— Chapter 16 —

— Chapter 17 —

— Chapter 18 —

— Chapter 19 —

— Chapter 20 —

— Chapter 21 —

— Chapter 22 —

— Chapter 23 —

— Chapter 24 —

— Chapter 25 —

— Chapter 26 —

— Chapter 27 —

— Chapter 28 —

— Chapter 29 —

— Chapter 30 —

— Chapter 31 —

— Chapter 32 —

— Chapter 33 —

— Chapter 34 —

— Chapter 35 —

— Chapter 36 —

— Chapter 37 —

— Chapter 38 —

— Chapter 39 —

— Chapter 40 —

— Chapter 41 —

Acknowledgements

Copyright

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First I have to thank the Anti-Saloon League’s Wayne Wheeler for conceiving and drafting the National Prohibition Act, and Andrew Volstead, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee for helping make it law in 1919. Cheers to them.

Kidding aside, I have to thank Marty Gervais whose writings and tireless enthusiasm for the Border Cities continue to be a source of inspiration. There are other people in my hometown who each endeavour in their own way to preserve and share its rich history. I have them to thank as well (and now we can all be crazy together).

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“Let me think about it.”

Belle River was centrally located at the top of Essex County — a rectangular peninsula framed by Lake St. Clair to the north, the Detroit River to the north and west, and Lake Erie to the south. On a map it resembled a fist delivering an uppercut to Michigan’s jaw. Where Lake St. Clair flows into the Detroit River, strip farms give way to a string of municipalities known as the Border Cities: Riverside, Ford City, and Walkerville, where the river narrows until it’s a mile wide at Windsor and you’d swear you can hear the factory whistles in Detroit. Next is Sandwich, and at the point where the river runs due south is Ojibway, a tiny farming community. Heading out of the Border Cities and then east along Erie’s north shore, you eventually hit Kingsville. If you travelled north as the crow flies, from there you’d wind up back in Belle River. Billy saw Ojibway and Belle River as strategic locations, providing easy access to waterways, Windsor and Detroit, and the interior of Essex County.

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