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A Tale of Two Towns A Mining and a Farming Community in the 1890s Duane A. Smith University Press of Colorado

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title	:	A Tale of Two Towns : A Mining and a Farming Community in the 1890s
author	:	Smith, Duane A.
publisher	:	University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin	:	0870813951
print isbn13	:	9780870813955
ebook isbn13	:	9780585021447
language	:	English
subject	Sandwich (Ill.)--History, Durango (Colo.)--History, Sandwich (Ill.)--Social life and customs , Durango (Colo.)--Social life and customs, Agriculture--Illinois--Sandwich--History--20th century, Mineral industries--Colorado--Durango--History--20th century.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	F549.S358S65 1997eb
ddc	:	977.3/28
subject	:	Sandwich (Ill.)--History, Durango (Colo.)--History, Sandwich (Ill.)--Social life and customs , Durango (Colo.)--Social life and customs, Agriculture--Illinois--Sandwich--History--20th century, Mineral industries--Colorado--Durango--History--20th century.

1997 by the University Press of Colorado Published by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 Tel. (303) 530-5337 All Rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smith, Duane A. A tale of two towns: a mining and a farming community in the 1890's / Duane A. Smith. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87081-395-1 (casebound : alk. paper) 1. Sandwich (111.)-History. 2. Durango (Colo.)-History. 3. Sandwich (111.)-Social life and customs. 4. Durango (Colo.)-Social life and customs. 5. Agriculture-lllinois-Sandwich-History-20th century. 6. Mineral industries-Colorado Durango-History-20th century. I. Title F549.S358S65 1997 977.3'28- -dc2197-2 1784 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1 948 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Dedicated to Beverly Johnson Agnes Henning Florence Devine May Sebby Marjorie Smith Hash

CONTENTS Preface ix Prologue xiii 1. The Most Brilliant Future 1 2. The Men and Women Merely Players 17 3. Front Page Headlines 29 4. Best of Times, Worst of Times 43 Photographic Essay: The Towns 65 5. The Boys Got What They Wanted 75 6. Two-for-a-Quarter Statesmen 89 7. School Marms and Printers' Devils 105 8. No Better Place in America to Live 121 Photographic Essay: The People 133 9. Old-Time Religion 151 10. This Is Woman's Opportunity 167 11. Joy in Mudville 191 12. Friendship, Love, and Truth 205 13. The Good Old Days 221 Epilogue: After the Ball 245 Essay on Sources 253 Index 255

Page ix PREFACE What is about to unfold is the story of two small towns-Sandwich, Illinois, and Durango, Coloradotowns like those many Americans remember from their youth; towns that gave residents a sense of place, a sense of home; towns where people had time to talk to you, knew when you were sick, and missed you if you failed to show up in church on Sunday; towns with schools within walking distance, alleys behind homes, and vacant lots for games and youthful adventures. Sandwich and Durango represented a way of life in the United States that reached its peak between the 1870s and World War II. They represented a nation that epitomized the credo of the late House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill's father: "Do the best you can for your neighbor. Never forget from where you come." In those two generations, the United States, as author Richard Critchfield wrote, "went from country to city, farm to factory, horse to car, kitchen surgery to scientific medicine, fundamentalism to Darwinism, tent meeting to Hollywood movie."

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