After The Boom In Tombstone And Jerome, Arizona: Decline In Western Resource Towns

Acknowledgments

While hiking the long trail that ends at a book, one becomes beholden to many people. First among these, in my case, is my wife, Barbara. She has lived with this project for a decade and earned most of the money that sustained it. My interest in the mining history of the American West goes back twenty years; hers goes back four generations to Leadville, Colorado, in the 1880s. She has explored dozens of mining towns and made numberless side trips to the middle of nowhere in support of my odd enthusiasms. Then there are all the sacriWces that she has made so that I could research and write. Thank you for everything, Barbara, however inadequately I may express it. My parents, Anna and George Clements, and my uncle Tom and aunt Yoko Clements have also contributed to this project morally and Wnancially. My parents have supported this long journey with sympathy , sage council, and quite a bit of money. My uncle and aunt invested thousands of dollars at two crucial points in the process, which kept me relatively free from debt and permitted me to concentrate on completing the initial stages of this work. My other parents, Alan and Vera Patrick, have been understanding, hospitable, and supportive over the twenty-Wve years that I have known them. Thanks to you and acknowledgments the rest of my family for making this goal possible and the journey meaningful. I’ve also been fortunate to have had excellent mentors to guide my work. Peter Iverson of Arizona State University managed this manuscript through its original development. He has shared with me much of his wisdom, both about writing a book and about life in the history profession. He has also rescued you from many shallow thoughts and much bad writing. Duane A. Smith, one of America’s foremost mining historians, has let me draw upon his extensive knowledge of and enthusiasm for the subject, provided me with much good advice about the history business, and become another valued friend. Historians Robert Trennert and Philip VanderMeer both carefully examined and criticized this manuscript and provided me with pertinent advice and valuable support. A special word of thanks to Jerome Edwards, editor of the Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities of the University of Nevada Press, whose original enthusiasm for this project sustained it in its early days in the publication process. Anna Clements—a doctoral candidate in English and a copyholder at Doubleday before she was my mother—proofed the entire manuscript with care and in detail. Sandy Crooms, former Assistant Director of the University of Nevada Press, guided this manuscript through its initial evolution into a book and showed boundless good humor and patience with an often ignorant and occasionally grumpy author. Managing Editor Sara Vélez Mallea ably oversaw the Wnal stages of this book’s production and Michelle Filippini served as in-house editor . Design and Production Manager Carrie House designed this book, Assistant Production Manager Jeanette Nakada managed its illustrations , and Bill Nelson created its maps. All of these people have greatly improved the quality and presentation of this book. The mistakes that remain are mine alone. Of course, without the expertise and dedication of archivists, there would be little evidence of Tombstone’s and Jerome’s past left to xiv Acknowledgments research. My sincere thanks to the professionals at these facilities for their knowledge, assistance, and courtesy: the Hayden Library, Arizona State University, Tempe; the State of Arizona’s Department of Library and Archives, Phoenix; the Arizona Historical Foundation and the University of Arizona Library’s Special Collections, Tucson; Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park, Tombstone; the Cochise County Recorder’s OYce, Bisbee; the University of Northern Arizona Library’s Special Collections, FlagstaV; Jerome State Historic Park, Jerome; the Sharlot Hall Museum’s Archives, Prescott; and the Yavapai County Recorder’s OYce, Prescott. I would also like to mention that the chapter titles of my book are quotations from the historical newspaper articles I cite within the chapters. And, my thanks to the editors at the Journal of the West for allowing me to reprint segments of this book’s text, which appeared in a diVerent format in the article “Bust and Bust in the Mining West” in vol. 35 no. 4 (October 1996). Copyright © 1996 by Journal of the West, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Journal of the West, 1531 Yuma, Manhattan, ks 66502...