Ghost Town Stories

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926936192

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Ghost Town Stories of BC by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

Many of BC's old mining towns are now abandoned ruins, disappearing into the wilderness. These once-thriving towns and the pioneers who built them are remembered in 10 fascinating stories of hard work and heroism. A mine rescue worker sadly recounts a tale of death underground at Coal Creek. Three eccentric old bachelors become the final residents of Phoenix. Legends of Spanish treasure near a Vancouver Island gold-rush town persist to this day. Experience BC's colourful past in these entertaining stories from the province's vanished communities.

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926613703

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Ghost Town Stories of the Red Coat Trail by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

The Red Coat Trail of southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta runs near the route of the North West Mounted Police's famous 1874 March West. Today, this lonely highway passes through a windswept land of ghostly abandoned towns. Johnnie Bachusky takes readers back to the heyday of these towns, which sprang up as settlers travelled west during the last great land rush. The Roaring Twenties brought bumper harvests, but also bootleggers and bank robbers; fortunes were won and lost in high-stakes poker games. The Great Depression devastated the region as disease, drought, dust storms and grasshoppers took their toll. History comes to life in these exciting true stories, from an account of a 1920s bank robbery in Manyberries to the tales of a boisterous Govenlock rancher who hunted with Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok.

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307527943

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Ghost Town by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Ghost Town: Seven Ghostly Stories from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. In the old towns of the Wild West, there’s more to hear than the paint peeling from the deserted storefronts, more than the tumbleweeds somersaulting down the empty streets. If you listen hard, you can hear voices whispering stories. Stories like the one about the lost mine in Maiden, Montana, or how Wyatt Earp won the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. And don’t forget about the Bad Man from Bodie, California—he’s still searching for his lost finger! Can you hear them? “An entertaining collection.” –School Library Journal “Combining history and mystery…[Ghost Town: Seven Ghostly Stories] recalls classic campfire tales.” –Booklist “A well conceived (and titled) collection…[of] chilling short stories.” –Kirkus Reviews

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1894974727

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Ghost Town Stories of Alberta by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

Today, many of the historic coal-mining communities of the Rocky Mountains are uninhabited ghost towns. Yet behind the crumbled ruins are tales of perseverance, danger and romance. A devastating mine explosion on Halloween shatters the lives of mining families in Nordegg. The miners of Mountain Park build a hockey rink still celebrated in local lore. A young immigrant couple in Mercoal establishes a successful business only to have their love story sadly cut short. These 11 dramatic and poignant ghost-town tales are sure to fascinate all who love pioneer history.

Author : Jeff Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Liverpool (England)
ISBN : 1908213922

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Ghost Town by Jeff Young Pdf

Author : Diane Siebert
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780618096732

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Rhyolite by Diane Siebert Pdf

A poem describing the rise and fall of Rhyolite, a town in the desert of southwestern Nevada which grew from one gold claim to a town of 10,000 people, then, a few years later, was deserted.

Author : Kirsten Larsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : 1575652579

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The Ghost Town Mystery by Kirsten Larsen Pdf

On a school trip to Buzzard City, a deserted place left over from the Gold Rush days and described as a ghost town, classmates Max and Sarah look for real ghosts.

Author : Elsie G. Turnbull
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Company Limited
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1894384261

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Ghost Towns and Drowned Towns of West Kootenay by Elsie G. Turnbull Pdf

Leaning headstones and cow parsnip covered ruins proclaim that people once lived in over fifty ghostly communities of West Kootenay. Other towns like Arrowhead, Beaton, Needles and Waneta were drowned or became power dams. Comaplix died one fiery night. Elsie Turnbull helps you revisit them all.

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage Amazing Stories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1551539926

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Ghost Town Stories II by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

The story of towns in Alberta and Saskatchewan, built by settlers with high hopes for the future, that did not survive the struggle of the Depression and natural disasters.

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN : OCLC:1033663103

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Ghost Town by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

A collection of stories about eerie encounters in various ghost towns across the United States. Each story is accompanied by an afterword about the actual town on which the story is based.

Author : Michael Pryor
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781760638894

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Gap Year in Ghost Town by Michael Pryor Pdf

Let's get this straight - ghosts are everywhere. And they're dangerous. This is why my family has hunted them for hundreds of years. The Marin family run a two-man operation in inner-city Melbourne. Anton has the ghost-sight, but his father does not. Theirs is a gentle approach to ghost hunting. Rani Cross, combat-skilled ghost hunter from the Company of the Righteous, is all about the slashing. Anton and Rani don't see eye to eye - but with a massive spike in violent ghost manifestations, they must find a way to work together. And what with all the blindingly terrifying brushes with death, Anton must use his gap year to decide if he really wants in on the whole ghost-hunting biz . . . Gap Year in Ghost Town is smart, funny and scary - with extra action and attitude. 'FILLED WITH GHOSTLY INTRIGUE AND DELIGHTFUL CHARACTERS, MICHAEL PRYOR'S LATEST NOVEL IS PURE ENTERTAINMENT.' Books + Publishing

Author : Phoebe Rivers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442440388

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Ghost Town by Phoebe Rivers Pdf

Twelve-year-old psychic Sara Collins' life is turned upside down when she and her father move to an old shore town in New Jersey, and Sara discovers the town has a lot of history because ghosts want to tell her all about it.

Author : Michael Teitelbaum
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781684029730

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Terror at the Ghost Town Mine by Michael Teitelbaum Pdf

Jacob and Rich were excited about the chance to explore the old, abandoned ghost town. But they’d barely begun to walk the town’s streets when they heard a strange voice whisper, “Get out.” It was a warning they should have listened to, especially before they went into the dark, abandoned gold mine.

Author : Neil Leckman,Son Mitchell,Kevin L. Jones,Matthew Wilson,John H. Dromey,Ron Koppelberger,Jeff Jones,Ken L. Jones,John Kujawski,John L. Thompson,D.L. Chance,Lee Clark Zumpe,Nathan J.D.L. Rowark
Publisher : Thirteen Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781291759600

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Western Ghost Stories by Neil Leckman,Son Mitchell,Kevin L. Jones,Matthew Wilson,John H. Dromey,Ron Koppelberger,Jeff Jones,Ken L. Jones,John Kujawski,John L. Thompson,D.L. Chance,Lee Clark Zumpe,Nathan J.D.L. Rowark Pdf

Cowboys, Wild West frontiers, gunfights, ghosts and hauntings of deserted and sometimes not so deserted places... once again our talented bunch of writers have come up with an intriguing set of stories set in everyone's favourite genre...

Author : Maria Da Silva,Andrew Hind
Publisher : Amazing Stories
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1552774120

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Ghost Town Stories of Ontario by Maria Da Silva,Andrew Hind Pdf

Ontario is rich in ghost towns, communities that were once thriving but which have been reduced to mere shadows of their former selves. Nine villages -- including silver camps, fishing ports, crossroads hamlets, and farming settlements -- come alive on the pages of this book. The term 'ghost town' invariably conjures up images of fog-shrouded cemeteries, buildings with sinister visages, and of course, restless spirits of the dead. While often this is merely our imagination at play, in some cases, these ghost towns are indeed said to be haunted.