J.J. Anselmi's Out Here on Our Own tells the story of Rock Springs,
Wyoming, a mining boomtown with a history of brutal racial
violence, widespread addiction, prostitution, and a staggeringly
high per-capita suicide rate-yet a place that has proved remarkably
resilient. Anselmi stitches together an array of original
interviews with people who've seen those things firsthand, tracing
the boom-bust trajectory of a town known for its corruption, vice,
and violence. Amid such horrors as the massacre of Chinese miners
in 1885 and the ongoing methamphetamine and opioid epidemics, the
town has fought hard to keep its identity of rugged individualism
intact. In 2022 Rock Springs is slipping into yet another bust.
Anselmi's narrative offers searing personal accounts of a community
in crisis, whose problems are fanned by severely limited mental
health resources, dying industries, and Wyoming's still-pervasive
idea that people should deal with their troubles alone. In a
community's own words, Out Here on Our Own depicts a place that's
as tough and weathered as the sagebrush and sandstone surrounding
it.
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