Browsing by Author "Lewis, Oscar"
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Item Sea routes to the gold fields; the migration by water to California in 1849-1852(A.A. Knop, 1949) Lewis, OscarItem The town that died laughing(Little, Brown, 1955) Lewis, OscarAustin, 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 picture of the men and the manners, the hey-day and the decline, of a typical frontier boom town.