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. (more information)

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Silver City, New Mexico, USA: High-Lonesome Books, 1994 FIRST EDITION. 4 years of daily accounts of frontier life in Tucson - 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" ! Black cloth hardtcover with gilt lettering on front and spine. Gold speckled red endpages. DJ has normal cover edgewear and agetoning. Some dampstaining on inside bottom edges not visible unopened. . First Edition. Cloth. As New/Near Fine. Illus. by M. Fred Barraza, Anne Lowe, Sid Alwin. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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