Lady In Boomtown. Miners And Manners On The Nevada Frontier

MRS HUGH BROWN

Publication: American West Publishing Company, 1968, Palo Alto

First edition. 8vo. Pink cloth, titles stamped in blue on the spine, 127 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated from photographs. Introduction by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Memoirs of life and activities in the Nevada mining towns of Tonopah and Goldfield from 1903 to 1922. Marjorie Brown arrived "a bride of nineteen, trained for nothing except how to be a lady." For the next twenty years her life was to be the life of Tonopah, her story, Tonopah's. Fine, bright copy in price-clipped, wraparound dust jacket

Inventory Number: 48956