Two new mining town histories, plus a Ford film trilogy history, a biography of Buffalo Bill, Lincoln’s spies and a conman for the ages. The history of the American West is a story of infinite chapters, but one of the most studied subjects is mining towns. Recently published are two new studies of Southwestern mining communities, whose parallel histories are equally significant in Western American history, yet they are unequally remembered. Don Chaput and David de Haas’s Tombstone, Arizona


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