— After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona, Decline in Western Resource Towns

Eric L. Clements is associate professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University and editor of the Mining History Journal. His areas of interest include both the mining and maritime history of the American West. He has published articles and given presentations on mine health and safety reform, the Western Federation of Miners, the nature and meanings of ghost towns, and the social and physical consequences of legalized casino gambling in three former mining towns in Colorado.