Saloons of the American West: An Illustrated Chronicle

Robert Brown's book on Western saloons is a stand-out among the Sundance Books' series on Western History. Three-color pictorial boards with a sewn binding on heavy paper. 144 pp with something like over 225 illustrations in black and white and color: period photographs, current photographs, paintings, prints, and many pictures of artifacts: bottles, tokens, and original documents. Indexed. TABLE OF CONTENTS In the Beginning Westward Ho! Saloons and Recreation Saloon Art Saloon Social Services Mining-Camp Saloons Cattle-Country Saloons Saloons and the Ladies Crime and the Saloon Music and Preaching in the Saloon Saloon Tokens and Bar Bottles Reformers, Prohibition, Bootleggers, and Speakeasies The Saloon Today