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The Company Town in the American West
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This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by single compa
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“Company town.” The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good onl