Alcohol and Opium in the Old West
Subtitle: Use, Abuse and Influence
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780786476299
Subjects: Drug abuse; Alcoholism; United states, social conditions
Description: "This book explores the role and influence of drink and drugs (primarily opium) in the Old West, which for this book is considered to be America west of the Mississippi from the California gold rush of the 1840s to the closing of the Western Frontier in roughly 1900"--