Cashbox (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) [Large Print]

By Richard S. Wheeler

Book Overview

From the Spur Award-winning author of Badlands. A small Montana town in the 1880s attracts a diverse populace, from high-stakes speculators and sultry adventuresses to hardened miners and desperate women on the run--all lured by the town's promise of a new life embedded in its silver mines.

• Format: Hardcover
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0783815662
• ISBN13: 9780783815664
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Piece of Very Accurate Historical Fiction

I read this book a couple of summers ago while vacationing in our cabin in the ghost town of St. Elmo, Colorado. St. Elmo is an old mining town and I could envision everything described in Cashbox happening here in the 1800s. The author does a superb job of recanting the various types of people who migrated to a boomtown, and then how the town ebbs and dies with the crash of the mining business. One fact he brings to light, and one which I have never heard before, is how the town prostitutes would be buried in a wedding dress in an upright position - a stark contrast to how they spent their squalid lives on their backs. It was such a good read that I was very surprised that this work of fiction has never been made into a movie. I plan to re-read Cashbox this summer. I would not hesitate to recommend this book to fans of old west historical fiction, and it is a read to be enjoyed by either sex.

Life and death of a boomtown

Cashbox hit home with me. I grew up near the dead mining towns of Elkhorn and Comet, close to Butte, and just a hop, skip, and jump from Helena. This book sports and amazing cast, which includes the town of Cashbox and the Giltedge mine. Scoundrels and Saints, this story has them all with Mr. Wheeler's superior descriptions and character building. Not only is Cashbox and excellent story of just how precarious life in the Old West was, it's a interesting and loving testament of rough and wild Montana history.