Best Ghost Towns in Colorado
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Colorado's Best Ghost Towns
- ASIN: 1928656099
- ISBN: 1928656099
- Manufacturer: J.V. Publications
This four-color 8 x 10 book is designed to show through photographs what the best 105 ghost towns in Colorado look like. The photographs are complimented by a brief history of each abandoned town. A rating system was used to determine which towns to include. A GPS location is given for each site along with maps of each major area covered in the boo... [Read More]
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Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
- ASIN: 0806120843
- ISBN: 0806120843
- Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
Prospectors lured to the West in hopes of striking rich settled a thousand towns in the Colorado mountains. The cry of “Gold!” or “Silver!” or a few flecks of color in a tin cup sent them to remote, often inhospitable locations to search for the precious metals. Close on the heels of the miners were the merchant, the gamblers, the prostitut... [Read More]
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Powder Ghost Towns: Epic Backcountry Runs in Colorado's Lost Ski Resorts
- UPC: 719609974666
- ASIN: 089997466X
- ISBN: 089997466X
- Brand: Brand: Wilderness Press
- Manufacturer: Wilderness Press
In its heyday, Colorado had more than 175 ski areas operating on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains, and while many of those resorts have shut down, their runs still shelter secret stashes of snow. Pristine slopes await backcountry powder hounds out to discover these chutes and steeps, bunny hills and bumps. Chronicling the history of more than 36 o... [Read More]
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Ghost Towns of the Mountain West: Your Guide to the Hidden History and Old West Haunts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Mont
- UPC: 752748333581
- ASIN: 0760333580
- ISBN: 0760333580
- Brand: Voyageur Press Inc. U.S.
- Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
The RockyMountain and Great Basin states are the heart of ghost-town country. Once-bustling pioneer outposts, mining camps, lumber towns, and railroad villages stand today as reminders of the glory days of gold rushes, industrial progress, and that pioneering spirit of the Old West. This book guides readers to the fascinating and scenic ghost towns... [Read More]
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Ghost Towns of the West
- ASIN: 0760350418
- ISBN: 0760350418
- Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
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, N... [Read More]
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Ghost Towns, Colorado Style Volume Two: Central Region (updated edition)
- ASIN: 0961166290
- ISBN: 0961166290
- Manufacturer: J. V. Publications
The second volume of Ghost Towns, Colorado Style is filled with over 230 historic and contemporary photos from the central region of the Colorado Rockies. Organized into six geographic areas, this book of fascinating history is easy to use and fun to read. It covers over 250 town histories from Chaffee, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Lake, Park, Pitkin... [Read More]
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Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition: A guide to Colorado's casual gold prospecting, mining history and sightseeing
- ASIN: 1719553467
- ISBN: 1719553467
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes in... [Read More]
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Timberline Tailings: Tales Of Colorado'S Ghost Towns And Mining Camps
- ASIN: 0804009635
- ISBN: 0804009635
- Brand: Brand: Swallow Press
- Manufacturer: Swallow Press
"Timberline Tailings is a follow-up volume which the author published in 1977, after years of receiving letters from people who related their own stories, directions and data about Colorado mining camps after reading Stampede to Timberline. Sn3 Modeler
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Ghost Towns Alive: Trips to New Mexico's Past
- ASIN: 082632908X
- ISBN: 082632908X
- Brand: Brand: University of New Mexico Press
- Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
The first book of the twenty-first century on New Mexico's ghost towns, this illustrated survey is based on research, interviews, and the travels of author Linda Harris and photographer Pamela Porter. They have divided the state into eleven regions comprising seventy ghost towns, from the Santa Fe Trail and Colfax County in the north to the souther... [Read More]
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Colorado Ghost Towns: Past and Present
- ASIN: 0870042181
- ISBN: 0870042181
- Brand: Brand: Caxton Press
- Manufacturer: Caxton Press
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis is the third in Robert L. Brown's series of picturesque guidebooks to another era. In text and photographs he has captured the sense of the historic as well as the nostalgic of a new selection of ghost towns and mining camps that dot the back country byways and high mountain val... [Read More]
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Arizona Ghost Towns and Mining Camps: A Travel Guide to History
- ASIN: 0916179443
- ISBN: 0916179443
- Manufacturer: Arizona Highways
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Mining Camps and Ghost Towns; A History of Mining in Arizona and California Along the Lower Colorado (Great West and Indian Series)
- ASIN: 0870260316
- ISBN: 0870260316
- Brand: Brand: Westernlore Pr
- Manufacturer: Westernlore Pr
Book by Love, Frank
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Weird Colorado: Your Travel Guide to Colorado's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
- ASIN: 1402754639
- ISBN: 1402754639
- Brand: Brand: Sterling
- Manufacturer: Sterling
For weirdness to flourish, it requires a combination of dramatic history, amazing environments, and truly unique, off-the-grid characters. Colorado is blessed with all three! From the strange tale of Alfred Packer to Fruita's annual commemoration of Mike (the rooster that lost its head but not its will to live), there's no shortage of bizarre histo... [Read More]
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Ghosts of the Colorado Plains
- ASIN: 0804008337
- ISBN: 0804008337
- Brand: Brand: Swallow Press
- Manufacturer: Swallow Press
Since the second quarter of the nineteenth century, changing conditions have built and emptied small and large towns across the Colorado plain. At the time when Denver was little more than an overpopulated campsite along Cherry Creek there were numerous other settlements to the east and south, each with its own dreams of growth, gold or silver stri... [Read More]
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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
- ASIN: 0393241025
- ISBN: 0393241025
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000... [Read More]
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Twilight Dwellers: Ghosts, Gases, and Goblins of Colorado (The Pruett Series)
- ASIN: 0871086867
- ISBN: 0871086867
- Manufacturer: WestWinds Press
Ghost-story writer MaryJoy Martin brings to life the dead and not so dead in ""Twilight Dwellers."" During the past several years the author has collected thrilling and vivid accounts from her ""midnight maneuvers"" to include in this enlarged second edition. A book of inexplicable phenomena, ""Twilight Dwellers"" will haunt and delight you.... [Read More]
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Southern California's Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guide
- ASIN: 0806122528
- ISBN: 0806122528
- Brand: Brand: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
- Manufacturer: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Describes sixty ghost towns and the reasons for their decline
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Mayhem in Miniature: A Miniature Mystery
- ASIN: 0425223051
- ISBN: 0425223051
- Brand: Grace, Margaret
- Manufacturer: Berkley
Gerry’s crafts are small-scale, but her to-do list is anything but. Add murder to that—with one of her students as a suspect—and you have one hectic holiday. Time to shrink this mystery down to size.
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Miramont's Ghost
- ASIN: B00LTBWMJ6
- Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing
Miramont Castle, built in 1897 and mysteriously abandoned three years later, is home to many secrets. Only one person knows the truth: Adrienne Beauvier, granddaughter of the Comte de Challembelles and cousin to the man who built the castle.Clairvoyant from the time she could talk, Adrienne’s visions show her the secrets of those around her. When... [Read More]
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Ghost World s/c
- ASIN: 1560974273
- ISBN: 1560974273
- Brand: Fantagraphics
- Manufacturer: Fantagraphics Books
Inspiration for the feature film and one of the most acclaimed graphic novels ever, following the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart.
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