Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806120843

Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom

Ghost Towns

Ghost Towns
Author: Chris McNab
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2018-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781782745501

Ghost Towns of the West

Ghost Towns of the West
Author: Philip Varney
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0760350418

"Ghosts Towns of the West is the essential guidebook to the glory days of the Old West! Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the American West, including one-time boomtowns in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The book reveals the little-known stories of long-dead soldiers, American Indians, settlers, farmers, and miners. This essential guidebook to the historic remains of centuries' past includes maps, town histories, color and historical photographs, and detailed directions to these out-of-the-way outdoor museums of the West. Plan your road trips by chapter--each section covers a geographic area and town entries are arranged by location to make this the most user-friendly book on ghost towns west of the Mississippi. Ghost towns are within a short drive of major cities out West, and they make excellent day trip excursions. If you happen to be in or near Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, or El Paso, for example, you ought to veer towards the nearest ghost town. Western ghost towns can also easily be visited during jaunts to national parks, including Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Crater Lake, Mount Rainier, Glacier, Yellowstone, and many others throughout the West. Ghost Towns of the West is a comprehensive guide to former boomtowns of the American West, covering ghost towns in eleven states from Washington to New Mexico, and from California to Montana. This book has everything you need to learn about, visit, and explore a modern remnant of how life used to be on the Western range"--

Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps

Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps
Author: Stanley W. Paher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Ghost towns
ISBN: 9780913814093

Newly revised editions with 62 new color topo maps, numerous photos and descriptions of ghost towns, historic places, gold sites, recreation areas, and more throughout Nevada.

Ghost Towns of Arizona

Ghost Towns of Arizona
Author: James E. Sherman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1969-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806108438

A pictorial survey of the past history of more than one hundred former mining towns in Arizona

Ghost Towns of Route 66

Ghost Towns of Route 66
Author: Jim Hinckley
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2011-06-09
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1610602471

Explore the mystery and beauty of historic ghost towns from Illinois to California with this gorgeously illustrated guide to America’s favorite highway. The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boom towns built around oil wells, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than twenty-five ghost towns, rich in stories and history, complemented by gorgeous sepia-tone and color photography by Kerrick James. Also includes directions and travel tips for your ghost-town explorations along Route 66.

Ghost Towns of the West

Ghost Towns of the West
Author: Lambert Florin
Publisher: BBS Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 888
Release: 1971
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

A verbal and visual exploration of the West's ghost towns.

Some Dreams Die

Some Dreams Die
Author: George A. Thompson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1982
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780942688016

Ghost Towns of the American West

Ghost Towns of the American West
Author: Raymond Bial
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2001-02-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 054756189X

If it is abandoned by all or most of its inhabitants, a settlement becomes a ghost town. The buildings and dirt streets may remain, but the character and soul of the place change entirely. And so it was with mining camps, lumber camps, and cowboy towns scattered across America, particularly in the West: places with names like Gregory’s Diggings, Deadwood, Bodie, Calico, Goldfield, and Tombstone, some of the over 30,000 deserted towns in the United States. Why did people come to these isolated places? Why did they leave? As Raymond Bial’s narrative explores the history of our ghost towns, his well-composed photo-graphs silently tell their stories: of bustling, muddy streets, of large mercantile stores, and, ultimately, of short-lived dreams of gold, fertile land, or simply a good place to call home.