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Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : James Lynn Wheat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Extinct cities
ISBN : OCLC:1918472
Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : 48,7 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 : 42,6 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 : 48,6 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 : W. T. Block
Publisher : Epigram Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019569974
Includes Angelina, Chambers, Jefferson, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Polk and Tyler counties.
Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780806156163
By the time Route 66 received its official numerical designation in 1926, picture postcards had become popular travel souvenirs. At the time, these postcards with colorful images served as advertisements for roadside businesses. While cherished by collectors, these postcard depictions do not always reflect reality. They often present instead a view enhanced for promotional purposes. Portrait of Route 66 lets us see for the first time the actual photographs from which the postcards were made, and in describing how the production process worked, introduces us to an extraordinary archival collection, adding new history to this iconic road. The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, held at the Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda, Illinois, contains one of the nation’s largest collections of Route 66 images, including thousands of job files for postcards produced by Curt Teich and Company of Chicago. T. Lindsay Baker combed these files to choose the best examples of postcards and their accompanying photographs not only to reflect well-known sites along the route but also to demonstrate the relationships between photographs and their resulting postcards. The photographs show the reality of the locations that customers sometimes wanted "improved" for aesthetic purposes in creating the postcards. Such alterations included removing utility poles or automobile traffic and rendering overcast skies partly cloudy. This book will interest historians of art and design as well as the worldwide audiences of Route 66 aficionados and postcard collectors. For its mining of an invaluable and little-known photographic archive and depiction of high-quality photographs that have not been seen before, Portrait of Route 66 will be irresistible to all who are interested in American history and culture.
Author : W. T. Block
Publisher : Epigram Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Howard Marchitello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134721429
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 : Dick King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1315609352
Ghost Towns of Texas is a compilation of the intimate, inside-stories of the many hopefully established colonies which, for various reasons, failed to become the Utopias which their founders expected them to be: Marietta was settled by the Quakers, but their peace-loving characteristics did not blend with the none too peaceful West of Texas; La Reunion was built by European followers of the Fourier movement, but they discovered they were not adapted to the rural life of the pioneer in a town poorly located; and more.
Author : Philip Varney,Jim Hinckley
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Robert Guest
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230341234
Acentury ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call - or Skype - home the moment their flight has landed, and that's just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy communication, immigrants everywhere stay in intimate contact with their native countries, creating powerful cross-border networks. In Borderless Economics, Robert Guest, The Economist's Business Editor, travels through dozens of countries and 44 American states, observing how these networks create wealth, spread ideas and foster innovation. He shows how: * Brainy Indians in America collaborate with brainy Indians in India to build $70 fridges and $300 houses * Young Chinese study in the West and then return home (where they're known as "sea turtles"), infecting China with ideas that will eventually turn it democratic * The so-called "brain drain" - the flow of educated migrants from poorcountries to rich ones - actually reduces global poverty *America's unique ability to attract and absorb migrants lets it tap into the energy of all the world's diaspora networks. So despite its current woes, if the United States keeps its borders open, it will remain the world's most powerful nation indefinitely. With on-the-ground reporting from Asia, Africa, Europe and even Idaho, this book examines how migration, for the all the disruption it causes, makes the world wealthier and happier.
Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0806119012
Traces the history of the use of windmills in the United States and surveys the various types of American windmills