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International Resourcing Services, Inc. [Published Date: 1998]. Hardcover, 98 pp. Part Two. Very good in very good dust jacket. Red leatherette covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. [From back cover] ENJOY A RETURN TRIP TO LIBERTY FALLS AND EXPERIENCE THE GOLDEN ERA OF “OLD COLORADO” Step right into the Town Square of Liberty Falls and take your place among its leading citizens! You’ll explore the mountains with Trapper Big Mike and visit the circus with little Adrienne Hook — a most precocious youngster! You’ll rock on the front porch with the head of the local temperance movement, Mrs. Harriet Shaw, and hear about her efforts to rid all of Colorado of “demon rum.” On Main Street you’ll browse through the shops of our town’s most successful entrepreneurs — men and women like Benjamin Cummings the signmaker, “Handy Andy” Malloy, and the owners of Susan’s Hat Shop and Red Rudder Antiques. The colorful, first-person accounts of these gregarious folks will have you feeling right at home in Liberty Falls...and their tales make the ideal complement to the wonderful Liberty Falls buildings and pewter figurines! [From front jacket flap] An intimate visit with the colorful townsfolk of Liberty Falls! All the dramatic adventures of your favorite Liberty Falls characters: the shopkeepers... farmers.. .outdoorsmen.. .movers and shakers.. .come alive in this historically researched account of a fictional Colorado boom town circa 1880-1910. Ten local leaders narrate their own “no holds barred” accounts of life in Liberty Falls: its victories and defeats, advances and old-fashioned pleasures — all in their own words and from their unique perspectives. Inspired by the popular Liberty Falls buildings and pewter figurines, these dynamic characters capture the bold spirit of “old Colorado”!