Miss Kansas City Kitty - Dilks, Deborah
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Doris Markham's Story takes you back to Kansas City in the 1930s and 1940s as well as rural Missouri living at the turn of the twentieth century. Join Doris on her escapades through three marriages and a dozen boyfriends. Miss Kansas City kitty Doris Markham's Story is based on a true story about one spirited country girl's struggles to survive in the Kansas City when it was a wild town, some called it The Paris of the Plains with illegal gambling, speakeasies, gangsters, barbecue, and jazz. Her story is a love story, okay several love stories mixed with drama and comedy. People described…mehr

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Doris Markham's Story takes you back to Kansas City in the 1930s and 1940s as well as rural Missouri living at the turn of the twentieth century. Join Doris on her escapades through three marriages and a dozen boyfriends. Miss Kansas City kitty Doris Markham's Story is based on a true story about one spirited country girl's struggles to survive in the Kansas City when it was a wild town, some called it The Paris of the Plains with illegal gambling, speakeasies, gangsters, barbecue, and jazz. Her story is a love story, okay several love stories mixed with drama and comedy. People described Doris Markham as a pistol, a free spirit and stubborn. She could be called an early woman's rights activist because she often said, "What's right for the goose, is right for the gander." In this book you will see Kansas City from a working girl's view and find gangsters, kidnapping, murder, prostitution, speakeasies, supper clubs, bars and even a famous person or two. When Doris won a Kansas City Kitty competition, her life changed.
Autorenporträt
Deborah Dilks aka Debby Dilks grew up in northwest Missouri and moved south to the Greater Kansas City Area upon graduating from high school. She is married with two children, four grandchildren and a multitude of people she considers her children and grandchildren from all over the world. After thirty-three years working at the University of Missouri Kansas City in the School of Computing and Engineering, she retired and now has the time to following her first passion of writing. Debby's second passion is genealogy. This is her second book about her mother. The first book is Miss Kansas City Kitty Doris Markham's Story ISBN 978-1646108657 hard cover or 978-16466108619 paperback.