Ghost Towns And Mining Camps Of Southern Nevada

Author : Shawn Hall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0738570125

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Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Southern Nevada by Shawn Hall Pdf

Ghost towns and mining camps are the last remaining vestiges of the Old West; there is a mystique surrounding these places that has made exploring them a pastime for many in the western United States. Nevada has more than a thousand of these boom-and-bust towns. Some are completely abandoned, while some still struggle to survive and even serve as county seats. Sadly, these wonderful places, including those covered in this volume, are constantly in danger from vandalism and neglect. Many ghost towns and mining camps have been destroyed or damaged needlessly, and those who are captivated by their charm must protect these windows into history so that they survive for future generations.

Author : Stanley W. Paher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UVA:X000537911

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Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps by Stanley W. Paher Pdf

The detailed history of Nevada's ghost towns are chronicled along with numerous B/W photos of more than 575 mining sites and towns.

Author : Shawn Hall
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Extinct cities
ISBN : 0396079555

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A Guide to the Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Nye County, Nevada by Shawn Hall Pdf

Author : Stanley W. Paher
Publisher : Gem Guides Book Company
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0913814105

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Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps by Stanley W. Paher Pdf

Newly revised editions with 62 new color topo maps, numerous photos and descriptions of ghost towns, historic places, gold sites, recreation areas, and more throughout Nevada.

Author : Shawn Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043114670

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Preserving the Glory Days by Shawn Hall Pdf

Nye County is Nevada's largest and least populated county, but it is also the site of many of the state's most colorful ghost towns and mining camps. The county's economy throughout its history has been largely based on its mines--first, exploiting veins of gold and silver, and more recently deposits of raw materials for modern industry, such as molybdenum and barite. It was here that famous boomtowns like Tonopah and Rhyolite sprang up after the discovery of nearby lodes brought in rushes of prospectors and the merchants who supported them. But the county includes many smaller, shorter-lived camps and numerous abandoned stagecoach and railroad stops associated with defunct mining operations.This book offers a lively, informative record of Nevada's isolated interior. Hall first published a guide to Nye County's ghost towns in 1981. Since then, he has continued his research into the county's past and has uncovered much new information and corrected some errors. To prepare this revised and greatly expanded edition, he revisited all 175 sites recorded earlier and has added more than 20 previously unlisted sites.

Author : Shawn Hall
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874174090

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Old Heart Of Nevada by Shawn Hall Pdf

Elko County, in the old heart of Nevada, is rich in historic sites, many of them hitherto uncharted and some verging on disappearing. For the first time, historian Shawn Hall identifies and locates the ghost towns and old mining camps of Elko County and recounts their colorful histories. Following a guidebook format, Hall divides the county into five easily accessible regions, then lists the historic sites within each region and provides directions to reach them. He offers a brief history of each site as well as a description of its extant structures and their present condition. The result is a lively compilation of local history and mining and ranching lore that records the dramatic past of Nevada’s northeast corner, its pioneers and prospectors, its towns and mines, its outlaws, ranchers, merchants, mining concerns, and civic leaders. The book offers never-before available information about the old heart of Nevada and the people who settled there. It will be of enduring value to tourists and weekend explorers, historic preservationists, and all those interested in the history and artifacts of this region.

Author : Clifford Alpheus Shaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1536908002

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Aurora, Nevada 1860-1960 by Clifford Alpheus Shaw Pdf

Despite a century of history, and the valiant efforts of all those who believed the town would last forever, Aurora, Nevada, is now and forevermore a "Colossal Wreck" slowly returning to its beginnings-a sagebrush and pinyon pine covered valley home to jackrabbits and a few ghosts from the past. While Aurora is gone, its historical record remains, thus providing us the opportunity to reconstruct the town and its society if only in our imagination. Most historical accounts about Aurora have focused on the town during its early 1860s mining boom. However, Aurora's rich and colorful history deserves a closer look. This new reference-oriented publication includes hundreds of edited and annotated newspaper clippings and other firsthand accounts about Aurora's buildings, businesses, major mines, social life, Paiute citizens, ghost town days, and final destruction over the entire length of its century-long history. It also includes directories for the boom years 1864, 1880, and 1915, as well as 6 maps and over 150 photographs, many of which are "then and now" comparisons of the same view.

Author : Philip Varney
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0806126086

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Southern California's Best Ghost Towns by Philip Varney Pdf

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 : Philip Varney,Jim Hinckley
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780760350416

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Ghost Towns of the West by Philip Varney,Jim Hinckley Pdf

"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 : Muriel Sibell Wolle
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789120516

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The Bonanza Trail by Muriel Sibell Wolle Pdf

THIS is the story of the men who sought for gold, from California to the eastern rim of the Rocky Mountains. Mrs. Wolle writes colorfully of the unbelievable privations the men endured in penetrating the fastnesses of the high Sierra and the Rockies and in crossing the desert wastes of Arizona, Utah and Nevada; of the mines first discovered in New Mexico by Coronado and his men four centuries ago; and the first great rush that hit California in 1849. She follows the miners who poured in successive waves into the golden gulches of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, climbed to the deeper mines high in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, and dared at last to penetrate the Indian-infested Black Hills of South Dakota. It is doubtful if the vividness of this phase of history will ever fade for American readers. In personally following the trails of the pioneering prospectors, Mrs. Wolle finds her excitement continually renewed, as she stumbles upon mute evidence of past bloodshed, lust and struggle. It is this excitement which she conveys to her readers both in the text and in the more than one hundred on-the-spot drawings which show the towns and town sites with the eye of the nostalgic lover of this picturesque and courageous part of our national heritage. A guide book for the adventurous, THE BONANZA TRAIL will be attractive alike to travelers, American history enthusiasts and collectors of Americana. Nor will its pages soon be forgotten by the general reader. “THE BONANZA TRAIL is the fascinating and definitive book on the ghost and near-ghost towns of the Old West for which so many students and amateurs of Western Americana have been waiting. Like the once booming camps and diggings which are its subject, it is a repository of the wonderments, glories and pathos of pioneer times and romantic bonanzas....A book that, to the informed intelligence, is almost impossible to put down.”—LUCIUS BEEBE, The Territorial Enterprise

Author : Shawn Hall
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874170108

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Romancing Nevada'S Past by Shawn Hall Pdf

Drawing on county records, newspaper microfilm, personal interviews, and on-site investigation, Hall provides the reader with a history of 175 significant sites, rendering a treasury of interesting facts on every page. This book blends history and old photographs with an update on the present condition of each ghost town or landmark. The sites and towns are arranged alphabetically, county by county, for quick reference.

Author : Beth Sagstetter,Bill Sagstetter
Publisher : Benchmark Publishing (Company)
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89066258898

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The Mining Camps Speak by Beth Sagstetter,Bill Sagstetter Pdf

A guide to appreciating and understanding the history of abandoned mining camps shows how to use the techniques of an historical sleuth to identify and interpret what one sees at a ghost town.

Author : Remi A. Nadeau
Publisher : Crest Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039069435

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Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of California by Remi A. Nadeau Pdf

Accounts of gold-rush days in the Mother Lode camps, with stories of bad men and gold seekers, from history and folklore.

Author : Heather Leigh
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439675694

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Haunted Southern Nevada Ghost Towns by Heather Leigh Pdf

Discover what life was like in the heyday of the abandoned mines that dot the Nevada landscape, now host to the spirits of those who lost their lives in pursuit of gold, silver, and salt. Step into the Silver State's past, where the echoes of once-thriving boomtowns and mining operations reverberate through the desert to this day. Explore the remnants of a drowned town exposed by the receding waters of Lake Mead, and an abandoned pet cemetery sure to send chills down your spine. The bones of prehistoric creatures lie beside the former residents of Berlin, and in Goodsprings, reports of ghostly celebrity sightings stir up excitement. Join author Heather Leigh on a journey through the eerie history of Nevada's ghost towns.

Author : Cy Martin,Cynthia Jean Martin Keezer
Publisher : Corona del Mar, Calif. : Trans-Anglo Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UCSD:31822031034226

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Gold! and where They Found it by Cy Martin,Cynthia Jean Martin Keezer Pdf