The Townsmen (Time-Life, The Old West Series).pdf

Pdf / English / 1975 / 240 pages / 35.2 MB

1 Making nowhere somewhere 7
2 Of building lots and ballyhoo 50
3 The merchants on Main Street 88
4 Government by guess and by gall 127
5 And now … showtime 160
6 A tenacious town that made it big 196

An evocative 40,000-word text by Keith Wheeler is accompanied by approximately 250 illustrations including paintings, drawings, photographs, advertisements, maps, architectural renders, posters and playbills.