books.google.ca - Daniel Aaron, one of todays foremost scholars of American history and American studies, began his career in 1942 with this classic study of Cincinnati in frontier days. Aaron argues that the Queen City quickly became an important urban center that in many ways resembled eastern cities more than its own...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Cincinnati_Queen_City_of_the_West.html?id=eCgVN3FKOxQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCincinnati, Queen City of the West