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Whiskey, six-guns & red-light ladies : George Hand's saloon diary, Tucson, 1875-1878 / transcribed and edited by Neil B. Carmony ; maps by Sid Alwin.
- Title
- Whiskey, six-guns & red-light ladies : George Hand's saloon diary, Tucson, 1875-1878 / transcribed and edited by Neil B. Carmony ; maps by Sid Alwin.
- Author
- Hand, George O.
- Publication
- Silver City, N. M. : High-Lonesome Books, c1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F819.T957 H35 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 268 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Over a four-year period, 1875 - 1878, a saloon owner named George Hand kept a diary in the frontier town of Tucson. Funny, honest, this document is presented here just as George Hand wrote it. This book offers an unusual, candid view of frontier life, its excitement and boredom, colorful characters, violence.
- Alternative Title
- George Hand's saloon diary.
- Whiskey, six-guns and red-light ladies.
- George Hand's saloon diary
- Whiskey, six-guns and red-light ladies
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Diaries
- History
- Note
- Running title: George Hand's saloon diary.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-257)
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Keeping tight day and night -- Apaches resume raiding in the Southwest -- Smallpox comes to town -- Outlaws terrorize the Arizona countryside -- Murder, mayhem, and death in Arizona -- Change came quickly to George Hand's Southwest.
- ISBN
- 0944383238 (softcover)
- 0944383246 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- ^^^94077781^
- OCLC
- 31319988
- SCSB-10967637
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library