{"product_id":"the-aimless-life-music-mines-and-revolution-from-the-rocky-mountains-to-mexico-paperback-softback-9781496222909","title":"The Aimless Life; Music, Mines, and Revolution from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496222909","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Aimless Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMusic, Mines, and Revolution from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeonard Worcester (Author), Andrew Offenburger (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496222909\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 July 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180 pages, 18 photographs, 2 maps, 1 chronology, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.26 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Worcester, who felt that he never struck it rich and hence the title, has left us with his life, richly observed and remembered.\"-Reed Weimer, \u003ci\u003eDenver Westerners Roundup\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Leonard Worcester Jr. lived across interesting times and places and, thankfully, he wrote about a lot of what he experienced. Here is the everyday set against the backdrop, and occasionally the foreground, of world-shaping events. Andrew Offenburger knows this terrain well but he lets the story unspool with a light touch, always helping us frame Worcester’s story in context and circumstance. The result is pitch perfect: the life and the times of a historical figure whom history would otherwise hide from view.”-William Deverell, director of the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This beautifully edited tale of a jack-of-all-trades adrift in the U.S. West and Mexico in an age of empire and revolution captures the spirit of its border-crossing time, opening a portal into the wider horizons of North American borderlands history.”-Samuel Truett, author of \u003ci\u003eFugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The itinerant Leonard Worcester Jr. had a knack for being in big places at big times, from the mining towns of Leadville and Cripple Creek to revolutionary Mexico. Edited adeptly by Andrew Offenburger, Worcester’s memoir offers a compelling glimpse into many familiar stories of the turn of the twentieth century-and as much into what Worcester neglects as to what he describes.”-Derek R. Everett, author of \u003ci\u003eCreating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn early March of 1915 news broke in El Paso that Leonard Worcester Jr., a leading mining executive in the border region, was being held in a Chihuahua jail without trial or release on bond. Officials loyal to Francisco “Pancho” Villa had accused Worcester of defrauding a Mexican company related to a shipment of zinc, a charge without merit. While struggling to convince Mexican officials of his innocence, Worcester found himself in the middle of a maelstrom of economic interests, foreign diplomacy, and revolution that engulfed the U.S.-Mexico border region after 1910.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Worcester’s 1939 memoir of his “aimless” life describes an important period in U.S. and Mexican history from the perspective of an American miner, musician, and entrepreneur-running counter to the bombast of boosters promoting Manifest Destiny. Introduced, edited, and annotated by Andrew Offenburger, Worcester’s first-person account details the expansion of the American West, mining and labor in Colorado, the formation of reservations in Indian Territory, the Great Depression, and the everyday nature of the Mexican Revolution in Chihuahua.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Worcester’s memoir, one of the few written by an American living in the Mexican borderlands during this important historical era, provides a snapshot of the capitalist development of the American West and borderlands regions in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Major Events in the Life of Leonard Worcester Jr.\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Childhood and American Transformations, 1863–\u003cbr\u003e1881\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Pragmatic Professional, 1881–\u003cbr\u003e1893\u003cbr\u003e 3. Colorado, 1893–\u003cbr\u003e1905\u003cbr\u003e 4. Borderland Mining and the Early Revolution, 1905–\u003cbr\u003e1914\u003cbr\u003e 5. Business in the Borderlands, 1914–\u003cbr\u003e1939\u003cbr\u003e 6. Coda\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599905845528,"sku":"9781496222909","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-aimless-life-music-mines-and-revolution-from-the-rocky-mountains-to-mexico-paperback-softback-9781496222909","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}