{"product_id":"9780806150673","title":"Gold-Mining Boomtown: People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory","description":"The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In \u003ci\u003eGold-Mining Boomtown\u003c\/i\u003e,  Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New  Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals  who made their homes there during its heyday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, fewer than a  hundred people live in White Oaks. Its frontier incarnation, located a  scant twenty-eight miles from the notorious Lincoln, is remembered  largely because of its association with famous westerners. Billy the Kid  and his gang were familiar visitors to the town. When a popular deputy  was gunned down in 1880, the citizens resolved to rid their community of  outlaws. Pat Garrett, running for sheriff of Lincoln County, was soon  campaigning in White Oaks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut there was more to the town than  gold mining and frontier violence. In addition to outlaws, lawmen, and  miners, Haldane introduces readers to ranchers, doctors, saloonkeepers,  and stagecoach owners. José Aguayo, a lawyer from an old Spanish family,  defended Billy the Kid, survived the Lincoln County War, and moved to  the White Oaks vicinity in 1890, where his family became famous for the  goat cheese they sold to the town’s elite. Readers also meet a New  England sea captain and his wife (a Samoan princess, no less), a black  entrepreneur, Chinese miners, the “Cattle Queen of New Mexico,” and an  undertaker with an international criminal past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe White Oaks  that Haldane uncovers—and depicts with lively prose and more than 250  photographs—is a microcosm of the Old West in its diversity and  evolution from mining camp to thriving burg to the near–ghost town it is  today. Anyone interested in the history of the Southwest will enjoy  this richly detailed account.","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109021860080,"sku":"9780806150673","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780806150673_p0.jpg?v=1763724758","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780806150673","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}