Advocates and Adversaries: The Early Life and Times of Robert R. Rose (The Lakeside Classics Volume 75)

lxiii, 328 pp. "In 1914, a young lawyer from Denver, Robert R. Rose, arrived in Kemmerer, Wyoming to hang up his shingle and commence the practice of his profession. As a small town lawyer, he became closely acquainted with the activities of the county, and was directly involved in many of them. The story of his eight years in Kemmerer, never before published, makes up the seventy-fifth annual edition of The Lakeside Classics...The book reflects the economic development of a western twentieth century frontier community with an economic base of petroleum, livestock and mining industries. It is peoples with several colorful citizens, frequently given fictitious names, whose activities sometimes required an attorney well versed in criminal law."