| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona: Decline in Western Resource Towns. By Eric L. Clements. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003. xviii, 389 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87417-571-2.)
Americans revere progress. We celebrate it in expositions, centennials, and memorials. Historians revere progress. We chronicle the contributions made by those scholars Richard Hofstadter called The Progressive Historians (1968). We study the Progressive Era. Americans even have a special name for communities that epitomize progress: boomtowns.	1
The mining historian Eric L. Clements embraces a contrarian spirit with his After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona. Clements, an assistant professor at Southeast Missouri State University, looks at the rarely studied downside of the boom-and-bust cycle in the mining industry and the effect the decline had on mining towns. Given that few have gone before him, Clements resorted to coining his own term for the communities on the downside of the progress cycle: busttowns.	. . .

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