The Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town

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Review This unflinching and beautifully written memoir of place, in which Weston recreates that hustle and bustle, draws a compelling portrait of the town she knew and the people who animated it, from miners and labor agitators to lawyers, women's clubs to whorehouses. -- Story Circle Book Reviews Read more From the Publisher "This is a book full of love and tragedy, told in beautiful, caring, heartbreaking language. It's also a book full of disturbing questions for readers who connect the dots between mining, money, and tourism." John Rember author of Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley "In showing us the lost world of an Idaho mountain mining town, Weston doesn't take sides but reveals the life of Kellogg in all its horror and glory." Carolyn See author of Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America "Weston's book could have been subtitled "Growing Up in America": the high school proms, the ski trips, the Jantzen sweaters, all against a background of poison from one of the most notorious mining operations in the world. Weston's insights are unforgettable; her writing is wonderful." Mary Clearman Blew author of Balsamroot: A Memoir "An important portrait of the interior West--the true stuff, raw and gritty, honest to the bone." Craig Lesley author of Winterkill Read more About the Author Julie Whitesel Weston practiced law for many years in Seattle, Washington. Her short stories and essays about Idaho, mining, skiing, and flyfishing have been published in Idaho Magazine, the Threepenny Review, River Styx, and other journals and in the anthology Our Working Lives. She and her husband now divide their year between Seattle and Hailey, Idaho. Read more