| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2

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Book Review

After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona: Decline in Western Resource Towns. By Eric L. Clements. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003. xv + 389 pp. Illustrations, maps, table, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

The Arizona mining towns of Tombstone and Jerome today bill themselves, respectively, as "the town too tough to die," and "The Ghost City." Eric Clements's study of these so-called "busttowns" focuses not on their death but rather on the "process of dying" (p. 16). Like classic community studies, Clements details the decline of leading industries, economics, demographics, fraternal lodges, churches, community celebrations, sports, landscapes, and government in each town. Along the way, he identifies patterns between Tombstone's nineteenth-century silver mining bust and Jerome's twentieth-century copper downturn and then places them in the broader historiography of sociological community studies and the New Western History. Although critics may find such comparisons problematic, this reviewer agreed with the author's catchy take that "one simply must compare apples and oranges if one wishes to understand fruit" (p. 15).

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