Gavin Thomas Schmitt

Shallow Grave: The Unsolved Crime That Shook The Midwest

An upright citizen kidnapped in public and dumped in a shallow grave. A police chief's wife arrested for murder. A mobster kidnapped and threatened by the FBI. And an ongoing corruption probe looking at everyone from the lowest bookie all the way up to judges and prosecutors. What is going on in sma...

Neenah (Images of America)

Neenah rests in the heart of the Fox Valley, positioned between Appleton and Oshkosh. The city sits at the junction of Lake Winnebago and the Fox River, which has always been central to its draw for both recreation and business. Flour and paper milling utilized the rivers powerful flow and brought N...

Milwaukee Mafia (Images of America) by Gavin Schmitt (2012-10-15)

The Milwaukee Mafia: Mobsters in the Heartland by Gavin Schmitt (2015-03-07)

Kaukauna (Images of America)

Explorer Jean Nicolet traveled down the Fox River in 1634 and explored an area of three waterfalls. Settlers arrived and began trading at this natural way station in 1760, establishing what became Kaukaunaone of the oldest settlements in the state. In fact, the first land deed ever recorded in Wisco...

Milwaukee Mafia (Images of America)

Milwaukee is best known for its beerand rightfully so. But in the days of Prohibition, the big alcohol suppliers were not Miller, Blatz, Schlitz, and Pabst. The Mafia had control, and it made its money by running alcohol as far away as Canada and Indiana, as well as with counterfeiting, the numbers ...

The Milwaukee Mafia: Mobsters in the Heartland

Milwaukee's Sicilian underworld is something few people speak about in polite company, and even fewer people speak about with any authority. Everyone in Milwaukee has a friend of a friend who knows something, but they only have one piece of a giant puzzle. The secret society known as the Milwaukee M...

Menominee Indians (Images of America)

In Wisconsin history, no single group has been on the land longer than the Menominee Indians. While other tribes were pushed west by the Europeans and Americans, the Menominee stayed firm and held on to their ancestral homeland. Though their territory has been greatly diminished, there is something ...

Gavin Schmitt Wikipdia

Gavin Schmitt est un joueur de volley-ball canadien n le 27 janvier 1986 Grande Prairie (Alberta). Il mesure 2,05 m et joue attaquant. ...