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Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Cannonbooks
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc. Ontario Guide-books
ISBN : 1896757049
Author : Bruce Ramsey
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014844509
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0228103258
Despite the urban sprawl, industrialization and endless highway construction, Ontario possesses many hidden corners and lonely roads where the remains of earlier settlements, often constructed with immense effort against impossible odds, now lie forgotten. Some are no more than a few decaying foundations and collapsing houses, while others are littered with the remains of the industry and manufacturing that once thrived there. There is a renewed interest in exploring our own backyard, and Ontario's Ghost Town Heritage is the perfect guide to these once-booming towns and villages. While some still maintain small resident populations, others exist only as abandoned buildings and ruins. All have in common that they are "ghosts" of their former greatness, and their images evoke the lost legacy of Ontario's past. This fascinating book by Ontario historian Ron Brown explores over 80 accessible ghost towns in all parts of Ontario. Detailed driving directions invite you to experience the province's heritage for yourself. This revised edition contains many new sites to visit and has been carefully updated with the latest information and driving directions.
Author : Andrew Hind,Maria Da Silva
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781550027969
The authors explore the tragic history of communities whose stars have long since faded, and the people who once lived, loved, and laboured in them.
Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926936192
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 : Elsie G. Turnbull
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Company Limited
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1894384261
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 : Philip Varney,Jim Hinckley
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780760350416
"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"--
Author : Norm Weis
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : 0870043587
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Travel through the ghost-town country of the Pacific Northwest, guided by the camera and pen of Norman D. Weis. Both well-known and obscure towns, with intriguing names such as Comeback Mine Camp, Electric, Ruby, Greenback, Disautel, and Old Todora entice you to explore their secrets.
Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926613703
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 : Jeff Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Liverpool (England)
ISBN : 1908213922
Author : John Wesley Morris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0806114207
Lists 130 ghost towns in alphabetical order and includes descriptions of each.
Author : Philip Varney
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0806126086
The ghost towns of Southern California-some dramatic and nearly intact, others devastated-are well worth visiting. Most are remnants of once-colorful mining towns, though there are also railroad towns, a World War II relocation center, a promoter's swindle, and a failed socialist colony. Some excellent attractions remain. One of the best-preserved stamp mills in the West is in Skidoo. Smelters, homes, stores, and the remarkable wooden American Hotel can be found in Cerro Gordo, which the author calls "California's best true ghost town." Seasoned back-roads traveler Philip Varney, who has visited nearly a hundred ghost towns in the area, provides a down-to-earth and helpful guide to more than sixty of the best in Southern California and nearby Inyo and Kern counties. He defines a ghost town as a town with a population markedly decreased from its peak, one whose initial reason for settlement no longer keeps people there. It can be completely deserted, have a resident or two, or retain genuine signs of vitality, but Varney has eliminated those towns he considers either too populated or too empty of significant remains. The sites are grouped in four chapters in Inyo County, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and Kern River, and the regions surrounding Los Angeles and San Diego. Each chapter provides a map of the region, a ranking of sites as "major," "secondary," and "minor," information on road conditions, trip suggestions, and tips on the use of particular topographic maps for readers interested in more detailed exploration. Each entry includes directions to a town, a brief history of that town, and notes on its special points of interest. Current photographs provide a valuable record of the sometimes fragile sites. Southern California's Best Ghost Towns will be welcomed both by those who enjoy traveling off the beaten path and by those who enjoy the history of the American West.
Author : James E. Sherman,Barbara H. Sherman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806111062
Given in memory of Ethel A. Tsutsui, Ph.D. and Minoru Tsutsui, Ph.D.
Author : Robert L. Brown
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : 0870040219
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Settle into your four-wheel-drive vehicle or a chair and take off for the mining camps of Colorado! This book is an illustrated history of fifty-nine towns famous during the gold and silver rushes of the 1800s, with directions on how to get to each.
Author : Linda G. Harris
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 082632908X
Photographs and text describe some of New Mexico's ghost towns, providing information on their history, role in the state's development, why they have become ghost towns, and how some have been transformed.