The haunting remnants of America's ghost towns
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Arizona Ghost Towns and Mining Camps/a Travel Guide to History
- ASIN: 1932082468
- ISBN: 1932082468
- Brand: Brand: Arizona Highways
- Manufacturer: Arizona Highways
Ghost town authority Philip Varney brings Old West to life with intriguing anecdotes and a gallery of rare historic photographs. Regional maps along with detailed travel information tell what each site is like today. Now completely updated with GPS waypoints.
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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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New Mexico's Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guide
- ASIN: 0826310109
- ISBN: 0826310109
- Brand: Brand: University of New Mexico Press
- Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
This useful guidebook surveys more than eighty ghost towns, grouped by geographic area. First published in 1981 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, it has been praised in particular for its instructions on how to reach even the most obscure sites.
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Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
- ASIN: 0913814040
- ISBN: 0913814040
- Brand: Brand: Howell North
- Manufacturer: Howell North
Illustrated with 700 historic and modern photographs, with numerous maps.
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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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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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Guide to Arizona Backroads & 4-Wheel-Drive Trails 2nd Edition
- ASIN: 1934838195
- ISBN: 9781934838198
- Brand: Funtreks Inc
- Manufacturer: Funtreks Inc
This is an ALL-NEW, full-color second edition. The new book is spiral bound with a thick, durable cover. It's been expanded to 100 trails, including 43 new trails not in the previous edition. Whether you're a newcomer to 4-wheeling or an experienced veteran, we guarantee you'll have fun. Trails include desert and mountain areas, many close to Phoe... [Read More]
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Saint Death - John Milton #2 (John Milton Series)
- ASIN: B00EZQ2BZC
- Manufacturer: Unputdownable
John Milton has been off the grid for six months. He surfaces in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and immediately finds himself drawn into a vicious battle with the narco-gangs that control the borderlands. Milton saves the life of an idealistic young journalist who has been targeted for execution. The only way to keep her safe is to smuggle her into Texas.... [Read More]
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Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures
- ASIN: 0942688015
- ISBN: 0942688015
- Manufacturer: Dream Garden Press
New edition of George Thompson's classic work on Utah ghost towns and lost treasure. Over 400 Utah ghost towns are covered and hundreds more lost treasure tales are told. Illustrated with 120 historical photographs and a dozen maps. Each chapter is arranged geographically for each section of the state and includes a general locator map. Some Dreams... [Read More]
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
- ASIN: 0826317979
- ISBN: 0826317979
- Brand: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
- Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
After dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through.So begins life in the United States for many people every day. And so begins this collection of twelve autobiographical stories by Santa Clara University professor Francisco Jiménez, who at the age of four illegally crossed ... [Read More]
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Ghost Towns of Route 66
- UPC: 752748338432
- ASIN: 0760338434
- ISBN: 0760338434
- Brand: Brand: Voyageur Press
- Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
Ghost towns lie all along the Mother Road. 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 25 ghost towns, rich in stories and h... [Read More]
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Dark of the Moon (A Virgil Flowers Novel, Book 1)
- ASIN: B000W94GH2
- Brand: G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons
The first Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.“Virgil Flowers, introduced in bestseller Sandford’s Prey series, gets a chance to shine...The thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), who reports to Prey series hero Lucas Davenport, operates pretty much on his... [Read More]
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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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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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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
- ASIN: 044900371X
- ISBN: 044900371X
- Brand: Ballantine Books
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named J... [Read More]
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Mad River (A Virgil Flowers Novel, Book 6)
- ASIN: B0085DP6EY
- Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons
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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 California: Your Guide to the Hidden History and Old West Haunts of California
- UPC: 752748340824
- ASIN: 076034082X
- ISBN: 076034082X
- Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
Ghost Towns of California is a guidebook to the state's best boomtowns. Once thriving, these abandoned mining camps and pioneer villages still ring with history. Ghost town expert Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to know to explore these remnants of the past. Featured are color maps, driving and walking directions, town historie... [Read More]
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Ghost Towns of the Pacific Northwest: Your Guide to Ghost Towns, Mining Camps, and Historic Forts of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia
- ASIN: 0896585921
- ISBN: 0896585921
- Brand: Voyageur Press
- Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
Get ready for adventure as ghost town expert Philip Varney takes you on a tour of the Pacific Northwest’s most fascinating historic ghost towns, mining camps, fishing villages, lumber towns, and historic forts of Oregon, Washington, and southern British Columbia. With intriguing anecdotes, current travel information, maps, and outstanding color a... [Read More]
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Ghost towns of Texas
- ASIN: 0806119977
- ISBN: 0806119977
- Brand: Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
- Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
Briefly describes the history of eighty-eight Texas ghost towns, explains the reasons for their decline, and includes directions
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