Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Wheeler, Keith

The townsmen by Keith Wheeler; Editors of Time Life Books - Time-Life 1975 - 240 p

Includes Index and Bibliography




Making nowhere somewhere --
Of building lots and ballyhoo --
Merchants on main street --
Government by guess and by gall --
Now ... showtime --
Tenacious town that made it big --
Credits --
Acknowledgments --
Bibliography --
Index.

Photographs-and-text-survey of frontier life in the cities, boom towns and villages of the Western United States, 1850-1900.

43269

--West (U.S.)--History --1848-1860.

978.02 Whe 15