Ghost towns of the American West
by Robert Silverberg; Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund
- New York Thomas Y. Crowell 1968
- 309 p
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.