Michael Lesy / University of New Mexico Press / 2000-01-01 / USD 34.95 - - First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik.
A shocking portrait of a small town crumblingsocially, morally, physically and emotionallyunder the impact of the great depression of the 1890s. This cult classic is now available again in paperback.