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Mountain Mafia - Organized crime in the rockies | 
 enlarge | Authors: Betty L Alt, Sandra K Wells
Publisher: Cold Tree Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 136271
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1583852743
Dewey Decimal Number: 900
EAN: 9781583852743
ASIN: 1583852743
Publication Date: May 22, 2008
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Product Description
Mountain Mafia is a brief history of the Black Hand and Mafia in the Rocky Mountain region. It brings to life some of the more colorful leaders in the West's organized crime operations throughout the 20th century, including Roma, Colletti, and the Smaldones. Especially examined is the famous court case of "Scotty" Spinuzzi, who was acquitted of murder "because no one saw the bullet leave the gun." Also mentioned is the connection these western mobsters had with notorious crime members in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. Author
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Great Local History July 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
WOW! If you are from Pueblo,CO or the towns mentioned in this book you will be amazed. Last names are very familiar as well as the places it talks about. I absolutely loved it. Now people I know are borrowing the book and there is a waiting list.
Mountain Mafia Remembered July 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having been born and raised in an Italian family during the 1930's and 1940's in Southern Colorado,( Walsenburg, Pueblo, Agular) I found the discussion of organied crime in the local mountain communities a step down memory lane. I found the references about Mr. Charles Blanda, aka Charlie to his friends, to be the most interesting. Mr. Blanda was a family friend, he was always a gentleman and was a very good boss. My mother was a bartender for 35 years in Walsenburg, Pueblo and Denver. She worked for Mr. Blanda at the Holliday in on 7th. St. for about 5 years 42 to 47. As a little boy I stopped in to see her from time to time and always had a Cherry Coke and a conversation with Mr. Blanda. I also recognized several other names of people that I knew personnaly as a kid. It is a very interesting look down memory lane as I am now 73 years old. Long, long ago.
Cecil R. Sowers Jr. Gysgt U.S.M.C. (Ret)
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