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Ghost Towns of the West by William Carter Soft Cover
Ghost Towns of the West by William Carter Revised Edition
Soft Cover Cover damage, title page has staining, binding edge damage
224 pages Indexed
Copyright 1978 THIRD printing 1981
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION8
CALIFORNIA EXPLODES!12
Triggering the Boomtown Boom The Many-hued Camps Mining Camp Life Take the Low Roads The Hydraulickers Woman in Town! Ghosts Beyond Highway 49 Retracing California's Northern Gold Rush Sprites of the Bay Area Ghosts of the Great Deserts
COLOMA, CALIFORNIA: Mother of Mining Camps18
MURPHYS, CALIFORNIA: A Crude Sort of Elegance20
NORTH BLOOMFIELD, CALIFORNIA: In Hydraulicking's Shadow32
NEVADA CITY/GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA: Genteel Communities34
COLUMBIA, CALIFORNIA: Dress Up or Down, and Bring the Kids 44
MORE GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS IN CALIFORNIA56
GREAT BASIN-HOORAH FOR WASHOE!58
Comstock Schemes The Boardwalk Press Ghosts of the California-Nevada Border Ghosts of Central Nevada Ghosts of Southern Utah
VIRGINIA CITY, NEVADA: "All is life, excitement ... lust ..." 62
MARIETTA, NEVADA: A Naughty Lady with Three Lives70
BODIE, CALIFORNIA: "Goodbye, God, I'm Going to Bodie" 78
BELMONT, NEVADA: Wide Open for No Business88
GRAFTON, UTAH: Dixie Cotton, Zion Silk92
MORE GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS IN THE GREAT BASIN94
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPREADING FEVER96 Tent Towns and Boarding Houses Telltale Details Commerce Reliving the Hard-rock Boom Wyoming's Wild Ones Old Mills of Montana Utah's Mountain Ghosts Tourist Towns of the Rockies Getting High on Incomparable Colorado Georgetown's Hotel de Paris Ladies Had Their Day
GARNET, MONTANA: Started Life Early-And Looks It102
BANNACK, MONTANA: "Tu Grass Hop Per Diggins 30 Myle"106
ELKHORN, MONTANA: Waltzers and Worse110
MORE GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS140
THE NORTHWEST WAS SOMETHING ELSE142 Ho! For Oregon! Life and Death of Farm Towns Offbeat Oregon The Other Idaho Signs of the Times Ghosts of Northern Washington and Southern British Columbia Ghosts of the Far North
HARDMAN, OREGON: On and Off the Line148
SILVER CITY, IDAHO: Quixotic Queen of Ghosts156
SANDON, BRITISH COLUMBIA: Tide's In-Town's Out166
MORE GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS IN THE NORTHWEST182
THE SOUTHWEST-TOO TOUGH TO DIE 184 Ghosts of Northern New Mexico The Indian Threat to the Mining Camps Fun Was Where You Found It Ghosts of Southwestern New Mexico Ghosts of Southeastern Arizona Good Guys, Bad Guys Ghost Markers
CABEZON, NEW MEXICO: Se Habla Espa190
ELIZABETHTOWN, NEW MEXICO: Fighting for Life194
MADRID, NEW MEXICO: Railroads Built It-Railroads Killed It198
MOGOLLON, NEW MEXICO: Bad Problems, Good Ore204
TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA: Toughest of the Tough210
JEROME, ARIZONA: The Big One214
MORE GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS IN THE SOUTHWEST220
SELECTED READINGS222
INDEX 223
ON THE BACK COVER
Ghost towns, old mills, ruined mines, weathered saloons, and abandoned camps remain as mute testimony to the rowdy, raucous boom years that opened America's West. With Ghost Towns of the West, you can discover and explore these "ghosts of the past" as they are today and as they were in their heyday. Also included in this fascinating book are detailed maps, up-to-date travel information, and directions to each town for visiting them yourself. The sensitive photography and the exhaustive research is the work of free-lance travel writer/photographer William Carter, working closely with the Sunset editors.
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