There's Something About Cave Creek (It's The People) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Non-fiction book about characters in Cave Creek, Arizona in the early 1900s — cowboys, miners, sheriffs, a historic bar, and strong women. Gene K. Garrison interviewed these down-to-earth people in the 1970s. The book contains black & white photos of the people, some by Herbert Cohen. Of particular note is one of Leadpipe, a squatter who lived by the County Dump, now called a landfill. Another was of Jim Hardy and his wife, Faye. Jim was born in Phoenix in 1875, and, after an adventurous life, died in Cave Creek at the age of 103. O. K . Charlie was mostly a loner, a griper, a sometime artist with a longing for a drink, a prospector and ranch hand when he had to be.Pistol-packin' Catherine Jones was a Sheriff for a while — and she kept the peace in her no-nonsense style. Not many could accomplish that during prohibition, and having to contend with stills, but she did it.This little book gives a peek into the past, and the colorful people who lived in a rural Southwestern community where there wasn't much to do except run a cafe or a bar, work on a ranch, prospect for gold and silver, and entertain themselves with home-grown music and booze. It's the way we might have lived if we had been born about a hundred years ago.