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Ghost towns of the American West

by Silverburg, Robert
Additional authors: Ill. -- Bjorklund, Lorence
Published by : Thomas Y. Crowell (New York) Physical details: 309 p ISBN:41050. Year: 1968
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sw 900 - 999 978 Sil (Browse shelf) Available In Memory of : Mollie Killian 41050

Includes Index and Bibliography

Golden ghosts --
The California Gold Rush --
California mining camps --
Ghost towns of California --
The boom moves inland --
Phantom cities of the Nevada desert --
On to the Rockies --
The Prospectors head north --
Montana's lawless camps --
Ghost towns of the Southwest --
The Last ghost towns.

The story of the American mining frontier can be traced in the ghost towns--from the camps of California's forty-niners to the twentieth-century ruins in the Nevada desert. They mark an epoch of high adventure, of qick wealth and quicker poverty, of gambling and gunslinging and hell-raising.