{"publishers": ["University Press of Colorado"], "identifiers": {"librarything": ["7514412"], "goodreads": ["701959"]}, "subtitle": "a mining and a farming community in the 1890s", "isbn_10": ["0870813951"], "subject_place": ["Sandwich (Ill.)", "Durango (Colo.)", "Illinois", "Sandwich", "Colorado", "Durango"], "covers": [1617839], "lc_classifications": ["F549.S358 S65 1997", "F549.S358S65 1997"], "key": "/books/OL675591M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL19262A"}], "publish_places": ["Niwot, Colo"], "subject_time": ["20th century."], "pagination": "xix, 261 p. :", "source_records": ["marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part26.utf8:52817262:1034", "bwb:9780870813955", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2023-02-27:P8-CYA-527", "ia:taleoftwotownsmi0000smit", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-005.mrc:114578023:2003"], "title": "A tale of two towns", "dewey_decimal_class": ["977.3/28"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Includes bibliographical references and index."}, "number_of_pages": 261, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "lccn": ["97021784"], "subjects": ["Agriculture -- Illinois -- Sandwich -- History -- 20th century.", "Mineral industries -- Colorado -- Durango -- History -- 20th century.", "Sandwich (Ill.) -- History.", "Durango (Colo.) -- History.", "Sandwich (Ill.) -- Social life and customs", "Durango (Colo.) -- Social life and customs."], "publish_date": "1997", "publish_country": "cou", "by_statement": "Duane A. Smith.", "oclc_numbers": ["37004448"], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL15024412W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "local_id": ["urn:bwbsku:P8-CYA-527"], "ocaid": "taleoftwotownsmi0000smit", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The 1890s was an 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 apart.\n\nIn 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 study, based on a close examination of papers, municipal records, and personal correspondence, offers a unique portrait of everyday life in these two towns."}, "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-12T23:31:39.196896"}}