Author: Ed PattersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bicycle trails
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Guide Book to the Ghost Town Trail
Author: Ed PattersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bicycle trails
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Ghost Town Trail Guidebook
Author: California Ghost Town Trails
Author: Mickey G. BromanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780935182217
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Best-selling guide showing the best-known ghost towns in the state. Detailed maps, interesting facts and historical data.
Montana Ghost Towns and Gold Camps
Author: William W. WhitfieldPublisher:
ISBN: 9781931291385
Category : Ghost towns
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Ghost Towns of the West
Author: Philip VarneyPublisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760350418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
"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"--
Southern California's Best Ghost Towns
Author: Philip VarneyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806126081
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
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.
Ghost Town Trails
Author: Lambert FlorinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258443207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns
Author: Robert L. BrownPublisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870040214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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.
Utah Trails Southwest Region
Author: Peter MasseyPublisher: Adler Publishing
ISBN: 9781930193109
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Utah Trails Southwest region guides travelers along spectacular backroads and four-wheel drive trails.
The Bonanza Trail
Author: Muriel Sibell WollePublisher:
ISBN: 9781258924812
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1953 edition.