Menace in the West

by Colorado Historical Society and Henry O. Whiteside

Drugs pervaded everyday life in early Colorado: territorial doctors prescribed opiates for everything from toothaches to typhoid fever, cocaine was sold in bars and mining camp commissaries, and popular elixirs, tonics, and cordials -- laced with liberals doses of opium and cocaine -- were bought at the local drugstore and enjoyed by society's elite. Powerful narcotics even found their way into radical, though ill-fated, cures for alcoholism. Through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942576381
• ISBN13: 9780942576382
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Colorado History Society
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"