{"product_id":"tales-from-the-gainesville-daily-ron-melugin-9781467157407","title":"Tales from the Gainesville Daily Hesperian: A Chronicle of a Texas Frontier Town","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter legendary sheriff Pat Ware was thrown from his horse on a very muddy Commerce Street, the \u003cem\u003eGainesville Daily Hesperian\u003c\/em\u003e observed that he \"had enough mud sticking to his wardrobe to start a land boom in the Panhandle.\" The \u003cem\u003eHesperian\u003c\/em\u003e had an eye for detail, down to the autumn leaf pen wiper Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott received as a wedding present and the raid on Fount Duston's watermelon patch. Ron Melugin has pored over thousands of articles from the newspaper's frontier era, piecing together advertisements for Botanic Blood Balm and a county clerk's train robbing spree. It is an account of bygone Gainesville so vivid that modern readers can almost see, hear and even (in the case of the 1894 privy ordinance) smell it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ron Melugin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1467157406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781467157407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Ron Melugin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46451195838719,"sku":"9781467157407","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21e4fd62-aec1-4d94-98d8-a2ea3f0442ea.jpg?v=1735876742","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tales-from-the-gainesville-daily-ron-melugin-9781467157407","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}