Researching Family History One Record at a Time
John Richard Jackson wrote a weekly column, "Once Around the Thundermug," for The Mineral County Miner, Creede's weekly newspaper. Between 1993 and the early 2000s he gathered his stories and verses into six self-published books, writing as Thundermug. All six are long out of print.
B&B Printing of Gunnison, Colorado, their publisher, supplied PDFs of all six. With his sister's blessing as his sole heir, each is reproduced here exactly as John wrote it, in the order the books were published.
Book 1 · 1993
John's first self-published book, 1993 — stories collected from his long-running column of the same name in The Mineral County Miner, Creede's weekly newspaper, printed by B&B Printing of Gunnison, Colorado and long out of print.
Book 2 · 1993
John's second book, copyrighted 1993 and billed by its author as a sequel to "Once Around the Thunder Mug": thirty stories and verses of Creede miners, bars, dogs, Model T trucks and married life, with the author's photographs of the men he wrote about.
Book 3 · 1994
John's third book, copyrighted 1994 and prepared by B and B Printers of Gunnison: thirty-three stories of bear camps, cats and dogs, mining humor and a Presidential campaign, with class and band photographs from Depression-era Creede.
Book 4 · 1995
John's fourth book, copyrighted 1995 and prepared by B and B Printers of Gunnison: a continuous run of mining-camp stories and overheard barroom talk, with no chapter divisions of its own, presented here in five parts.
Book 5 · 1997
John's 1997 self-published collection, drawn from his long-running newspaper column as well as more recent pieces, printed by B&B Printers of Gunnison, Colorado and long out of print.
Book 6 · undated, after 2001
John's sixth and final book, undated in its printing but placed by its own text in 2001 or later: Creede stories, poems, family and travel photographs, and two reprinted newspaper clippings, coining the title phrase in memory of miner Lynn "Key" LeZotte, presented here in two parts.