The Rocky Mountain Revolution is pure Americana focused on an unsavory segment of labor's story, which helped make the reputations of William E. Borah, Clarence Darrow, and Big Bill Haywood.
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The Rocky Mountain Revolution is pure Americana focused on an unsavory segment of labor's story, which helped make the reputations of William E. Borah, Clarence Darrow, and Big Bill Haywood.
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Add this copy of The Rocky Mountain revolution to cart. $18.00, very good condition, Sold by Ken's Collectibles rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Olmsted Falls, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1956 by Holt.
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Very good in good dust jacket. 318 p. : maps; 22 cm. 1st edition 1956 with DJ. Binding strong, pages tight. No marks or writing. DJ shows normal wear with chipping and edge tears
Add this copy of The Rocky Mountain Revolution to cart. $20.00, good condition, Sold by Odd Volume Bookstore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Jackson, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1956 by Henry Holt & Company.
Add this copy of The Rocky Mountain Revolution to cart. $36.31, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by Northwest Corner Books.
Add this copy of The Rocky Mountain Revolution to cart. $40.00, good condition, Sold by Chaparral Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1956 by Henry Holt and Company.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 0x0x0; Signed by author on half title page. Minor shelf wear to binding with toning & small stains. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. From the collection of prominent Oregon lawyer Glenn R. Jack whose bookplate in on inside ffep. Dj shelf worn with chipping scuffs, creases, toning, light soiling & small tears in a mylar cover. PRIORITY SHIPPING PROVIDED IN THE USA FOR THE PRICE OF MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING.
Add this copy of The Rocky Mountain Revolution to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by Chaparral Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1956 by Henry Holt and Company.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Minor shelf wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Inscribed by author on half title page. Gift inscription on half title page. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with scuffs, creases & small tears. Vintage bookshop label on rear flap next to "6-9" stamped in purple m mink. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.8vo 8"-9" tall; 318 pages; Signed by Author.
Add this copy of The Rocky Mountain Revolution to cart. $75.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1956 by Henry Holt and Company.
Edition:
First Edition [stated], presumed first printing
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Company
Published:
1956
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17889497591
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Good in Fair jacket. 318, [4] pages. Endpaper map. Bibliography. Index. The DJ worn, torn and chipped. Stewart Hall Holbrook (1893-1964) was an American logger, writer, and popular historian. His writings focused on what he called the "Far Corner": Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. A self-proclaimed "low-brow" historian, his topics included Ethan Allen, the railroads, the timber industry, the Wobblies, and eccentrics of the Pacific Northwest. An early proponent of conservationism, Holbrook believed that Oregon's growing population would damage the state's environment. Holbrook was a logger before he moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1923, when he was 30 years old and became a very accomplished writer. He wrote for The Oregonian for over thirty years, was featured in The New Yorker, and authored over three dozen books. He also produced a number of satirical paintings under the pseudonym of "Mr. Otis, " in a style he called "primitive modern." These paintings are still shown occasionally at the Portland Museum of Modern Art or can be found at the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. In the early 1960s, Holbrook was the founder and leading spokesperson of an early fictitious conservation movement called the James G. Blaine Society, writing on subjects from sustained yield forestry to his concerns about unplanned population growth. The Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award is named after Holbrook and is presented every year "to a person or organization in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon's literary community. Harry Orchard devoted most of his early life to lawlessness and crime on a fantasically large scale. As the hired assassin of the Western Federation of Miners, he blasted a trail of violence through the West, ending in the 1905 bomb-slaying of a former Idaho governor. Orchard's skill with dynamite and the fearful results of this talent produced some colorful pages of Americana that, up to now, have escaped the history books. This is more than just the story of Harry Orchard, however. It is also the story of the Western Federation of Miners, of William "Big Bill" Harwood, a onetime idol of American labor, and the organization of the Industrial Workers of the World by Haywood before he fled to the Soviet Union. Stewart Halbrook writes of the labor conditions that led to violence in the hardrock, first in the mines of Northern Idaho and later in the Cripple Creek region and the San Juans of Colorado. Time and again Orchard sparked new violence in the hope of winning the approval of Haywood and the other union leaders. By the time Orchard had killed twenty men or more, there was so much fear, hate, and violence in the hardrock mining towns that the Western Federation of Miners was doomed. Harry Orchard's last assignment, the dynamiting of former Governor Steunenberg of Idaho, put the Western Federation of Miners out of business. Orchard was persuaded to confess his crimes and turn state's evidence. In one of the great courtroom dramas of all times, Clarence Darrow defended Haywood and one of the prosecutors was William E. Borah, then newly elected to the United States Senate.
Add this copy of The Rocky Mountain Revolution to cart. $75.00, like new condition, Sold by Argonaut Book Shop rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1956 by Henry Holt and Company.
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Fine. Book First edition. SIGNED by the author. Scarce thus! 318pp. Map endpapers, bibliography, index. Gray cloth lettered in red. A fine copy with lightly chipped and price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. A thorough and well-researched history of the Western Federation of Miners (a radical, violence prone, labor union), with much biographical material on Harry Orchard, who was imprisoned in 1905 for the assassination of former Idaho governor Steunenberg, and who the author interviewed extensively in prison. Orchard was the hired bomber of the Federation. The WFM was active in the mining areas of Northern Idaho and the Cripple Creek region of Colorado. "Has some information on Butch Cassidy" (Six-Guns). [Six-Guns: 1005].
