Morris b parker author (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 1976. Softcover/ Trade Wraps. Stated 2nd Printing. Part of the Southwest Chronicle Series. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good: sun fading to the spine; light rubbing to wraps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 151 pp 12mo. White Oaks, in fabled Lincoln County, was a booming mining camp in the 1880-1890s and the author was there almost from the beginning, arriving in 1882 when he was eleven. He watched White Oaks develop into a real town, and then decline as the mines petered out. White Oaks produced several famous citizens; Pat Garrett was an early sheriff, a disgraced US Senator (Albert B. Fall), and a future First New Mexico Governor (William C. McDonald), and a future president of one of the world's largest mining companies (Benjamin B. Thayer/Anaconda). A clean very presentable copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 1971. Softcover/ Trade Wraps. First Edition (NAP). Part of the Southwest Chronicle Series. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight sun fading to the spine; light rubbing to wraps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 151 pp 12mo. White Oaks, in fabled Lincoln County, was a booming mining camp in the 1880-1890s and the author was there almost from the beginning, arriving in 1882 when he was eleven. He watched White Oaks develop into a real town, and then decline as the mines petered out. White Oaks produced several famous citizens; Pat Garrett was an early sheriff, a disgraced US Senator (Albert B. Fall), and a future First New Mexico Governor (William C. McDnald), and a future president of one of the world's largest mining companies (Benjamin B. Thayer/Anaconda). A clean very presentable copy with several newspaper and magazine articles from the 1970s.…