The town that died laughing
Subtitle: the story  of Austin, Nevada, rambunctious early-day mining camp, and of its renowned newspaper, The Reese River reveille.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1955
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Reese River reveille, Austin Nev.; Austin (Nev.)
Description: "Austin, Nevada, was the town, a boom-and-bust mining camp of the 1860's that ran prodigally through its wealth and then withered away. The celebrated Reese River Reveille was it paper, an uninhibited, wide-ranging jester that kept the town laughing--even as it died. This is the story of Austin and of the Reveille--an uproarious, intimate picture of the men and the manners, the hey-day and the decline, of a typical frontier boom town."--Book jacket.