Deep Enough Frank A. Crampton Adventures in Mining Camps in 1900s HCDJ +Letter

Description: Deep Enough Frank A. Crampton Adventures in Mining Camps in early 1900s HCDJ +Letter_____________________________________ Deep Enough: a Working Stiff in the Western Mine Campsby Frank A. CramptonPublished by University of Oklahoma Press (1982) Condition:Excellent New Edition (1982) Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket! NO MARKS! The binding is tight and all 281 pages within are bright white with NO WRITING, UNDERLINING, HIGH-LIGHTING, RIPS, TEARS, BENDS OR FOLDS. The covers look perfect! The dust jacket is in excellent condition, as can be seen in my photos. The dust jacket is now inside of a Mylar cover to keep this beautiful gem in awesome condition for generations to come. This listing also comes with a letter from author, Frank Crampton's wife promoting his book after his death. It was found hidden underneath the dust jacket. She was a no-nonsense girl ;-) You will be happy with this one! Always handled and packaged with care! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking! About the Book:Among the various memoirs depicting the wild West, Frank Crampton's personal collection stands out. Within its pages, a new generation can delve into the remarkable characters, challenges, and sheer enjoyment that characterized Frank Crampton's experiences between the ages of sixteen and thirty. In the realm of memoirs capturing the essence of the wild West, Frank Crampton's youth in the mining camps is considered among the finest. Scion of a wealthy New York family, Crampton ran away from home in 1904 at the age of sixteen. Two bindle stiffs picked him up in a Chicago railroad depot and led him west as they taught him to survive first as a hobo and then as a hard-rock miner. In the first two decades of this century Crampton lived and worked in almost all of the important mining camps in the Westin California, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado—as a miner, assayer, surveyor, and finally one of the West’s best-known mining engineers. . In miners’ lingo “deep enough” meant “I don’t care” or “I’ve had it”; the term was applied to anything one did not. like or wanted nothing more to do with. Many of the experiences that Crampton describes were of that order. He was trapped in a collapsed mine shaft for ten days. He was in San Francisco at the time of the great earthquake and in Ludlow, Colorado, during the Ludlow Massacre. He lived in Death Valley among the desert rats and witnessed the last days of the old French prospector John Lamoigne, who “never looked for anything where anyone else would expect to find it, but where others were afraid to try.” He became so bored with barrooms and gambling dens at one time that he hired a girl of the line in Goldfield, Nevada, just for an hour’s conversation. So many adventures, so much camaraderie, novelty, and humor are crammed into this true-life story that fiction pales in comparison. Bindle stiffs, tinhorns, tenderhorns, bohunks, entrepreneurs, politicians, wives, and women of the evening crowd the pages. ‘This reprinting of the 1956 edition of Deep Enough is enhanced by two new maps and add1tional photographs from the author’s personal collection. In reading it, a new generation can share the extraordinary characters, hardships, and plain fun that Frank Crampton knew between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Copyright © 2018-2024 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. I spend lots of time writing up my descriptions and despise it when un-original losers cut and paste my descriptions in as their own. It is against ebay policy and if you are caught, you will be reported to ebay and could be sued for copyright infringement and damages.

Price: 29.99 USD

Location: Orem, Utah

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