A tale of two towns : a mining and a farming community in the 1890s / Duane A. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Duane A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mineral industries.

History.

Agriculture.

Sandwich (Ill.)--History.

Sandwich (Ill.).

Durango (Colo.)--History.

Durango (Colo.).

Sandwich (Ill.)--Social life and customs.

Durango (Colo.)--Social life and customs.

Agriculture--Illinois--Sandwich--History--20th century.

Mineral industries--Colorado--Durango--History--20th century.

Eighteen nineties.

Colorado--Durango.

Illinois--Sandwich.

Physical Description:

xix, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [1997]

Summary:

The 1890s was an tumultuous decade in America history, with economic depresssion, 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 fascinating Study, based on a close examination of papers, municipal records, and personal correspondence, offers a unique portrait of everyday life in these two towns. While geographically separate, A Tale of Two Towns shows how small town life a century ago in these communities was quite similar, and hauntingly familiar to life in each town today as the twenty-first century approaches.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0870813951

OCLC:

37004448