The aimless life : music, mines, and revolution from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico / Leonard Worcester Jr. ; introduced, edited and annotated by Andrew Offenburger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worcester, Leonard, Jr., 1863-1939, author.

Contributor:

Offenburger, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mining engineers--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Mining engineers.

Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920--Personal narratives.

Mexico.

Worcester, Leonard, Jr., 1863-1939.

Worcester, Leonard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]

Summary:

The Aimless Life is a historical memoir that tells the story of Leonard Worcester Jr. and provides a clear example of the capitalist development of the American West and borderlands regions in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century..

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Major Events in the Life of Leonard Worcester Jr.

Introduction

1. Childhood and American Transformations, 1863-1881

2. A Pragmatic Professional, 1881-1893

3. Colorado, 1893-1905

4. Borderland Mining and the Early Revolution, 1905-1914

5. Business in the Borderlands, 1914-1939

6. Coda

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.

ISBN:

9781496227744

1496227743

9781496227768

149622776X

OCLC:

1251443259