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Haunted Highway

by Looney, Ralph
Published by : Hastings House, Publishers (New York ) Physical details: 220 p. ISBN:0803829671 . Year: 1968
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j917.8042 Row The Story of Sacajawea j917.80433 Nak Go West! j917.89 Con Cimarron Kid j917.89045 Loo Haunted Highway j917.892392 Fol The Life And Legend Of George McJun j917.892392 Fol The Life And Legend Of George McJun j917.8942 Kra Carlsbad caverns

Introduction - Foreword - The Ghosts of Highway 10 (San Pedro, Golden) - More Ghosts of Highway 10 (Madrid, Dolores, Cerrillos) - "Sodom" on the Mora (Loma Parda) - The City of Song (Claunch) - Bloody Lincoln Town (Lincoln) - The City Greed Destroyed (White Oaks) - Den of the Forty Thieves (Los Alamos) - Meeting Place of Giants (Rayado) - Wild, Wonderful Cimarron (Cimarron) - The Town That Died Twice (Elizabethtown) - Valley of Shadow (Dawson) - Village by the Giant's Head (Cabezon) - ToWn on the Magic Mountain (Kelly, Magdalena) - Miracle at Milligan's Plaza (Reserve) - A Town That Wouldn't Die (Mogollon) - The Shangri-La of Raymond Schmidt (Chloride, Winston) - A Pair of Black Range Ghosts (Hillsboro, Kingston) - The Solid Silver Cavern (Lake Valley) - City of the Cross (Pinos Altos) - The Town That Beat the Odds (Tyrone) - The Mark of Pancho Villa (Columbus) - Improbable Shakespeare (Shakespeare) - Bibliography - Index

Ghost in New Mexico Praised as the most accurate work on the subject, Haunted Highways is a combination guidebook and history of more than two-dozen New Mexico ghost towns. Illustrated with 150 historic and contemporary photographs, it includes information on highway routes and an up-to-date map. Ralph Looney's engaging text takes the reader through such towns as Loma Parda (known in the old days as Sodom on the Mora); bloody Lincoln Town; Rayado, meeting place of Kit Carson and Lucien Maxwell; Reserve, where Elfego Baca produced his six-gun miracle; Mogollon, the town that wouldn't die; Pinos Altos, the city of the Cross; Columbus, which bears the scars of Pancho Villa's raiders; and the parade of ghosts along Highway 14 (once Highway 10): San Pedro, Golden, Madrid, Dolores, and Cerrillos. The book is populated by the likes of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett; Jinglebob John Chisum, Alex McSween, and the patrician Englishman John Tunstall; wild man Clay Allison and hotelkeeper Henry Lambert; Vicente Silva, the treacherous bandit; Col. J. S. Hutchason (Old Hutch); an valiant George Curry. Native Americans are represented by the proud Victorio, Mangas Coloradas, Chief Nana, and Cochise, who led their people in resistance to the coming of the white man. For experienced ghost-town travelers and armchair explorers, this treasure trove of history and adventure offers hours of engrossing reading.