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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 EarlyDay 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