Snowflakes and Quartz

Wyman, Louis

ISBN 10: 0963202812 / ISBN 13: 9780963202819

Published by Simpler Way Book Co, Silverton, 1993

About this Item

VG plus large softcover. Illustrated wraps. 4to. 133pp. No names or markings to text. Photos. Revised edition.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1783892068156

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Snowflakes and Quartz
• Publisher: Simpler Way Book Co, Silverton
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0963202812
• ISBN 13: 9780963202819
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • americana
  • Colorado

About this title

Synopsis

Snowflakes and Quartz is a most unusual book documenting life growing up in a mining town at the turn of the century in western Colorado. Louis Wyman was the man who lived that life, writing what it was like traveling in the first car to come to town as a young boy; what it was like working in the mines; the hardships; the humor; the funny characters in town. And then, writing of the sadness and trauma as be watched his town of Silverton, once one of the most famous camps of the West, slowly fade. Almost forty short stories are gathered here. They'll make you laugh and they'll make you cry. Almost fifty photographs and the author's good writing help to preserve past with learning about and remembering. Second Printing 21 years later!