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A Tale of Two Towns: A Mining and a Farming Community in the 1890s
A Tale of Two Towns A Mining and a Farming Community in the 1890s Author:Duane A. Smith The 1890s were a tumultuous decade in American history, with economic depression, 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 apa... more »rt.
In A Tale of Two Towns, historian Duane Smith takes a comparative look at Durango and Sandwich in an effort to determine what life was like in these two small communities.
His fascinating study, based on a close examination of papers, municipal records, and personal correspondence, offers a unique portrait of everyday life in these two towns. A Tale of Two Towns shows how small town life a century ago in these communities was quite similar, and hauntingly familiar to life in each town today.« less