Saloons of the American West: An Illustrated Chronicle

by Robert L. Brown

Book Overview

From the introduction, "Reduced to its most elementary terms, this book represents an effort to examine, with text and illustrations, some facets of the development of the American West in terms of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913582247
• ISBN13: 9780913582244
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Sundance Pubns Ltd
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Informative, Exhaustive, and Fun

Robert Brown's book on Western saloons is a stand-out among the Sundance Books' series on Western History. Three-color pictorial boards with a sewn binding on heavy paper. 144 pp with something like over 225 illustrations in black and white and color: period photographs, current photographs, paintings, prints, and many pictures of artifacts: bottles, tokens, and original documents. Indexed. TABLE OF CONTENTS In the Beginning Westward Ho! Saloons and Recreation Saloon Art Saloon Social Services Mining-Camp Saloons Cattle-Country Saloons Saloons and the Ladies Crime and the Saloon Music and Preaching in the Saloon Saloon Tokens and Bar Bottles Reformers, Prohibition, Bootleggers, and Speakeasies The Saloon Today