Bacon, Beans, And Galantines: Food And Foodways On The Western Mining

JOSEPH R. CONLIN

Publication: University of Nevada Press, 1986, Reno & Las Vegas

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, orange endpapers, xii, 246 pp., introduction, acknowledgments, illustrated, appendix, notes, sources, index. Dust jacket blurb says, "In a study both delightful and scholarly, Joseph Conlin examines the social history of food on the western mining frontier." The author focuses on the mining frontier of the American West from the California gold rush of 1849 to the last boom towns of Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada (1900-910). Fine in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 49427