Seeking Pleasure in the Old West ~ Dary

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From the western research/reference library of Jerry Crandall

Seeking Pleasure in the Old West

by David Dary

Alfred A. Knopf, 1995

Condition; good, minor shelf wear on dust jacket over hard cover

Spelling bees, quilting parties, gambling dens – here is an entertaining roundup of the myriad ways in which Americans amused themselves in the Old West from the time the first Europeans ventured across the Great Plains in the early nineteenth century until the coming of the radio in the early twentieth.