A Tale of Two Towns: A Mining and a Farming Community in the 1890s by Duane A. Smith
A Tale of Two Towns: A Mining and a Farming Community in the 1890s by Duane A. Smith
English | 1 Nov. 1997 | ISBN: 0870813951 | 486 Pages | EPUB | 1 MB
English | 1 Nov. 1997 | ISBN: 0870813951 | 486 Pages | EPUB | 1 MB
The 1890s was an tumultuous decade in America history, with economic depresssion, war, heated politics, and labor conflicts surrounding America's emergence as a world power. Against this chaotic background, life in the rowdy western mining town of Durango, Colorado, and the quiet agricultural hamlet of Sandwich, Illinois, seemed to be worlds apart.