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Fine Condition in Very Good jacket. Dust Jacket w/ minor tear. Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Americana, West; ISBN: 0826305881. ISBN/EAN: 9780826305886. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12453.
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Like New. No Dustjacket. Size: 9x6x0; Newspapers in mining boom camps were life the towns they served--rough and explosive. Putting out a paper in the turbulent Rocky Mountain mining fields was often more troublesome and dangerous than claiming and working a placer mine--particularly if an editor wanted to encourage stability, harmony, and economic growth in his community. In Boom Town Newspapers, the turmoils and triumphs of the papers and their editors are recorded in compelling detail. Rutted roads, saloons, ne'er-do-wells, and a newspaper--such were the main features of a boom town. Camp editors, many of whom were journeymen printers with little if any editorial experience, used their newspapers to aid them in their self-appointed missions to bring law and order--and new settlers--to their communities. Editors alternately praised and berated their readers in an attempt to show the world that life in the mining towns of the West were safe and civilized. The caustic columns of these frontier moralists were note always received with equanimity by their readers, however. Fights and even duels between editors and subscribers--and particularly between rival newspapermen--were common occurrences, as editors competed against mud, gambling, violence, and each other in their struggle to improve life in the camps. This engaging book brings hardship and humor of mining camps and their newspapers vividly to life. The combination of lively prose and historical detail will delight readers who enjoy books about the West as it really was.
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Fair. Used book-May contain writing notes highlighting bends or folds. Text is readable book is clean and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Faint spotting top edge, near fine; very good dust jacket. 8vo. (xvii) 146 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, b/w photos, gray cloth.
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1981 Halaas, David Fridtjof BOOM TOWN NEWSPAPERS; JOURNALISM ON THE ROCKKY MOUNTAIN MINING FRONTIER, 1859-1881 Foreword by Ralph Looney Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c1981 first edition 146pp, index, illus photos lg 8vo As new hardcover in d/j.
