Lying on the Eastern Slope: James Townsend's Comic Journalism on the Mining Frontier

Miami 1984 University Presses of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-0780-1. A scholarly work which makes lively reading. California and Nevada mining-camp newspapermen were itinerant, impecunious, imaginative and sometimes vitriolic...contemporaries and predecessors of Mark Twain and Bret Harte."-Sonnichsen quoted on jacket. Fine in Good DJ, rubbed.