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Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080613724X
A companion volume to Ghost Towns of Texas provides readers with histories, maps, and detailed directions to the most interesting ghost towns in Texas not already covered in the first volume. Reprint.
Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806121890
"The indefatigable T. Lindsay Baker has now turned his enormous mental and physical energies to the subject and has brought to view - if not to life -eighty-six Texas ghost towns for the reader's pleasure. Baker lists three criteria for inclusion: tangible remains, public access, and statewide coverage. In each case Baker comments about the town's founding, its former significance, and the reasons for its decline. There are maps and instructions for reaching each site and numerous photographs showing the past and present status of each. The contemporary photos were taken, in most instances, by Baker himself, who proves as adept a photographer as he is researcher and writer....Baker has done his work thoroughly and well, within limits imposed by necessity. He obviously had fun in the process and it shows in his prose."---New Mexico Historical Review
Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Science
ISBN : 0806119977
Describes 88 Texas ghost towns with historic background and recent photographs.
Author : Dorothy Aarts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258866323
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
Author : Jim Hinckley
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780760369692
Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than 60 ghost towns along the Mother Road, rich in stories and history! The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boomtowns built around oil mines, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Illustrated with gorgeous sepia-tone and color photography by Kerrick James, this book tours dozens of ghost towns in: Illinois (Braidwood, Braceville, Gardner, Dwight, Bloomington, Funks Grove, Springfield) Missouri (Rolla, Dootlittle, Springfield, Halltown, Paris Springs Junction, Avilla, Carthage, Joplin) Kansas (Galena, Riverton, Baxter Springs) Oklahoma (Narcissa, Afton, Tulsa, Warwick, Bridgeport, Foss, Elk City, Erick, Texola) Texas (Shamrock, McLean, Alanreed, Jericho, Amarillo, Glenrio) New Mexico (San Jon, Tucumari, Montoya, Newkirk, Cuervo, Dilia, Tecolote, Santa Fe, Thoreau, Gallup) Arizona (Lupton, Chambers, Two Guns, Flagstaff, Truxton, Hackberry, Kingman, Goldroad, Oatman) California (Needles, Goffs, Essex, Cadiz, Chambless, Amboy, Ludlow, Newberry Springs, Daggett, Barstow) This edition also includes directions and travel tips for your ghost-town explorations along Route 66, as well as a fold-out map of the Mother Road. Explore the beauty and nostalgia of these abandoned communities along America's favorite highway!
Author : Lambert Florin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Extinct cities
ISBN : 0875643299
Describes and pictures towns of Nevada's past.
Author : W. T. Block
Publisher : Epigram Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019569974
Includes Angelina, Chambers, Jefferson, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Polk and Tyler counties.
Author : John Wesley Morris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0806114207
Lists 130 ghost towns in alphabetical order and includes descriptions of each.
Author : W. T. Block
Publisher : Epigram Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022343136
This is the second in a 3-part anthology of old East Texas sawmill towns and ghost towns. It includes Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Sabine, Shelby and Trinity counties.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Texas
ISBN : OCLC:556314064
Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307527943
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 : Philip Varney,Jim Hinckley
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : John M. Mulhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1634992342
Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History encompasses huge swathes of time and space. As rural populations decline and young people move to ever-larger cities, much of our past is left behind. Out on the plains or along now-quiet highways, changes in modes of livelihood and transportation have moved only in one direction. Stately homes and hand-built schools, churches and bars--these are not just the stuff of individual lives, but of an entire culture. New Mexico, among the least-dense states in the country, was crossed by both the Spanish and Route 66; the railroad stretched toward every hopeful mine and outlaws died in its arms. Its pueblos are among the oldest human habitations in the U.S., and the first atomic bomb was detonated nearly dead in its center. John Mulhouse spent almost a decade documenting the forgotten corners of a state like no other through his popular City of Dust project. From the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert to the snow-capped Moreno Valley, travel through John's words and pictures across the legendary Land of Enchantment.--Back cover.
Author : Howard Marchitello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134721498
While the questions of ethics have become increasingly important in recent years for many fields within the humanities, there has been no single volume that seeks to address the emergence of this concern with ethics across the disciplinary spectrum. Given this lack in currently available critical and secondary texts, and also the urgency of the issues addressed by the critics assembled here, the time is right for a collection of this nature.
Author : Preethi Burkholder
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0764335693
Rocky Mountain ghost towns are filled with chilling, but captivating stories. Horace Tabor (in 1879) was said to be the fifth richest man in the United States; he wore night shirts with diamond-studded buttons. But in the silver panic of 1893, Tabor lost his fortune and was reduced to working for sixty-five cents a day at the time of his death. South Pass City, Wyoming, was the home of the women's suffrage movement. It was here that the first woman was sworn to a political office. The Carissa Mine poured millions of dollars into South Pass and by 1873 there were 4,000 residentsit was a bustling place. Today, South Pass lies abandoned and desolate, with less than seven residents living year round. Read about Annabelle Stark, of St. Elmo, Colorado, a local who still is believed to haunt the hotel. Olive Oatman was captured by Indians near Gila Bend, Arizona, and held in captivity for years before her brother found her. This is a handy guide of rags-to-riches stories and silent hardships. The ghost towns depicted appeal to travelers, archeologists, artists, historians, anthropologists, and individuals from all walks of life.
