Next Stop: Tombstone - George Hand's Contention City Diary, 1882

by Neil B. Carmony, Editor

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Tucson, AZ USA: Trail to Yesterday Books , 1995 FIRST EDITION. Three months of daily accounts of frontier life in Contention City, a satellite town of Tombstone right after the OK Corral gunfight and during the height of the Silver Boom. Fiestas, cockfights, bullfights, barroom fights, outlaw fights, Indian fights, political fights, fighting off smallpox, rabies, pleurisy, piles and the jim-jams, fighting off loneliness, tedium and the harshness of frontier life. Thank heavens for the whiskey, the Milwaukee beer, the fights and the "soiled doves" ! Death of A J Kent in Kentland, Indiana, Meeting of Order of Druids chapter on May 12, 1882. First Co-Ed swim. White softcover with cameo of George Hand on front. Normal cover edgewear, soiling and agetoning. Some wetstaining on top rear cover and rear flypage. Inside pages else unmrked,. First Edition. Stapled Pictorial Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Don Bufkin . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.