142 records matched your query       

Author:

Clements, Eric L., 1958-

Title:

After the boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona : decline in western resource towns / Eric L. Clements.

Publisher:

University of Nevada Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xv, 389 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Frontier and pioneer life--Tombstone.--Tombstone.
Frontier and pioneer life--Jerome.--Jerome.
Company towns--Arizona--Case studies.
Resource-based communities--Arizona--Case studies.
Tourism--Tombstone--Tombstone--History.
Tourism--Jerome--Jerome--History.
Tombstone (Ariz.)--History.
Jerome (Ariz.)--History.
Tombstone (Ariz.)--Economic conditions.
Jerome (Ariz.)--Economic conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-371) and index.

Contents:

Future growth and prosperity is assured -- Apartments or houses are impossible to obtain -- This ill-omened city -- Employment by mines practically nil -- The drawbacks incident to mining -- Owing to the dullness of trade -- Two Chinese, an Irishman, a Frenchman, and a Negro -- The painful necessity of closing the church -- As tombstone has empty houses to burn -- Due economy in town administration -- Out last dollar on a sure thing -- But a monument to the glories of the past?

Series:

Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities ;

ISBN:

9780874175714 (alk. paper)
0874175712 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52070815

LCCN:

2003008000

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)