This book explores the role and influence of drink and drugs (primarily opium) in the Old West, which for this book is considered to be America west of the Mississippi from the California gold rush of the 1840s to the closing of the Western Frontier in roughly 1900. This period was the first time in American history that heavy drinking and drug abuse became a major social concern. Drinking was considered to be an accepted pursuit for men at the time. Smoking opium was considered to be deviant and associated with groups on the fringes of mainstream society, but opium use and addiction by women was commonplace. This book presents the background of both substances and how their use spread across the West, at first for medicinal purposes--but how overuse and abuse led to the Temperance Movement and eventually to National Prohibition. This book reports the historical reality of alcohol and opium use in the Old West without bias.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mcfarland & Co Inc
ISBN-13
9780786476299
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183704044
Product Key Features
Author
Jeremy Agnew
Publication Name
Alcohol and Opium in the Old West: Use, Abuse and Influence
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Healthcare System
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jeremy Agnew
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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