Ghost Towns Of The American West

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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.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release : 2001-02-26
File : 53 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780547561899


Ghost Towns Of The American West

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The story of the American mining frontier can be traced through the ghost towns that dot the western landscape to this day, from the camps of California’s forty-niners to the twentieth-century ruins in the Nevada desert. These abandoned towns mark an epoch of high adventure, of quick wealth and quicker poverty, of gambling and gunslinging and hell-raising. Those who have seen the Old West movies sometimes think that the legends of the Wild West were invented by screenwriters. The ghost towns remain, and their battered ruins testify that the legends are true. Behind the tall tales is a history where a fortune could be made in a week and lost over the course of an evening. With a historian’s attention to fact and a novelist’s gift for dramatic storytelling, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg brings these adventures back to life in the rowdy splendor of their heyday in Ghost Towns of the American West. History and travelers’ tales are woven together with clarity and wit to create a lively account of a fascinating era in our history. Lorence Bjorklund’s illustrations, rich in detail, portray the ghost towns in their glory and in their dusty decline.

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Genre : History
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Release : 2020-12-04
File : 252 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780821441091


Ghost Towns Of The American West

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Photographs of Ghost Towns.

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Genre : Ghost towns
Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher :
Release : 1995
File : 324 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89059483065


Ghost Towns Of The West

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Ghosts Towns of the West is filled with photographs, maps, history, and detailed directions to find the best ghost towns to linger in the wake 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, indigenous peoples, settlers, farmers, and miners. Perfect for planning a road trip, 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. Most 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.

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Genre : Travel
Author : Philip Varney
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Release : 2017-05-01
File : 339 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780760357682


Ghost Towns Of The West

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Survey of abandoned towns, mostly mining towns, in the West. Well illustrated.

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Genre : Travel
Author : William Carter
Publisher :
Release : 1971
File : 268 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105033899050


Ghost Towns

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Tombstone, Bodie, St. Elmo, Silver City: these are some of the most famous of the Old West ghost towns and mining camps that dot America's landscape and provide hints to the country's history. But literally thousands more are scattered throughout the West, with some states boasting hundreds of abandoned boomtowns. Attracting thousands of visitors every year, many of these are protected by public and private parties alike, and visits are carefully regulated in order to preserve these valuable historical relics. Clint Thomsen describes various types of ghost town, explains their histories, and outlines ongoing research and archaeological study into decaying towns and mining camps.

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Genre : History
Author : Clint Thomsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2012-07-20
File : 65 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780747810865


The World Of The American West 2 Volumes

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Addressing everything from the details of everyday life to recreation and warfare, this two-volume work examines the social, political, intellectual, and material culture of the American "Old West," from the California Gold Rush of 1849 to the end of the 19th century. What was life really like for ordinary people in the Old West? What did they eat, wear, and think? How did they raise their children? How did they interact with government? What did they do for fun? This encyclopedia provides readers with an engaging and detailed portrayal of the Old West through the examination of social, cultural, and material history. Supported by the most current research, the multivolume set explores various aspects of social history—family, politics, religion, economics, and recreation—to illuminate aspects of a society's emotional life, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, intimate relationships, and connections between the individual and the greater world. Readers will be exposed to both objective reality and subjective views of a particular culture; as a result, they can create a cohesive, accurate impression of life in the Old West during the second half of the 1800s.

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Genre : History
Author : Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release : 2016-12-12
File : 778 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9798216168539


Ghost Towns Of California

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"A guide to the best ghost towns of California. Once thriving, these abandoned mining camps and pioneer villages still ring with history. Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to explore these sites, including maps, directions, history, and photos"--Provided by publisher.

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Genre : Travel
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Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Release : 2012-07-15
File : 241 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780760340820


Ghost Towns Of The Old West

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Whatever the reasons, the fascination is undeniable and GHOST TOWNS OF THE OLD WEST is sure to please even the most ardent ghost town aficionado. Featuring a lively, informative text by historian Gary Topping and more than 150 color photographs by noted California photographer Lynn Radeka--all commissioned especially for this volume--this handsome book surveys 18 of the richest, wickedest, and most colorful communities on the frontier.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Gary Topping
Publisher : BDD Promotional Books Company
Release : 1992
File : 168 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSD:31822031034002


Preserving Western History

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The first collection of essays on public history in the American West.

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Genre : History
Author : Andrew Gulliford
Publisher : UNM Press
Release : 2005
File : 428 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0826333109