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The Town That Died Laughing: The Story of Austin, Nevada, Rambunctious Early-Day Mining Camp, and of Its Renowned Newspaper, the Reese River Reveill (Vintage West Reprint)
The Town That Died Laughing The Story of Austin Nevada Rambunctious Early-Day Mining Camp and of Its Renowned Newspaper the Reese River Reveill - Vintage West Reprint Author:Oscar Lewis Austin, Nevada, was the town, a boom-and-bust mining camp of the 1860's that ran prodigally through its wealth and then withered away. The celebrated Reese River Reveille was it paper, an uninhibited, wide-ranging jester that kept the town laughing -- even as it died. This is the story of Austin and of the Reveille -- an uproarious, intimate... more » picture of the men and the manners, the hey-day and the decline, of a typical frontier boom town.« less