Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town

by Dix Van Dyke and Professor Dix Van Dyke

When 22-year-old Dix Van Dyke arrived in Daggett, California, in 1901, the town was a wild and raucous frontier settlement, with bar rooms and brothels, silver mines and land swindles, cattle drives,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801856256
• ISBN13: 9780801856259
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Insider point of view on an Old California town.

As a California historian, columnist for the OLD CALIFORNIA GAZETTE and author of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MISCELLANY, I found this book to have a wonderful insider's point of view on Daggett's history and culture. This is the kind of book that readers--who have an interest in local and regional history--will find interesting and infomative for it recounts the events and personallities in Daggett as written in the local newspaper by an "Old-timer" resident, hence an insider's knowledege is shared and if not for this book... who would ever know?