City and the Saloon

Thomas J. Noel, also known as "Dr. Colorado", teaches history at the University of Colorado at Denver where he is the director of Public History, Preservation & Colorado Studies, and is a columnist for the Denver Post. He has served as a Denver Landmark Commissioner and chair during the 1970s and 1980s and is a National Register Reviewer for Colorado. He is the author or coauthor of forty-one books on Colorado.

• Contents: Confluence; The Multifunctional Frontier Saloon; Saloon Society; Saloon Politics; 'The Cheapest and Easiest Way to Become an Influential Man'; The Immigrant Saloon; Moral Geography; Syndicates and the Seamy Side; Bars and Bosses; Shutting the Saloon Door.