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A tale of two towns : a mining and a farming community in the 1890s
- Title
- A tale of two towns : a mining and a farming community in the 1890s / Duane A. Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Duane A.
- Publication
- Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F549.S358 S65 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 261 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- The 1890s was an tumultuous decade in American history, with economic depression, war, heated politics, and labor conflicts surrounding America's emergence as a world power. Against this chaotic background, life in the rowdy western mining town of Durango, Colorado, and the quiet agricultural hamlet of Sandwich, Illinois, seemed to be worlds apart.
- In A Tale of Two Towns, historian Duane Smith takes a comparative look at Durango and Sandwich in an effort to determine what life was like in these two small communities. His study, based on a close examination of papers, municipal records, and personal correspondence, offers a unique portrait of everyday life in these two towns.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 0870813951 (casebound : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97021784
- OCLC
- ocm37004448
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries