Book Description
Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom
Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806120843
Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom
Author : Philip Varney
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1610585631
Ghost Towns of California is a guidebook to the state's best boomtowns. Once thriving, these abandoned mining camps and pioneer villages still ring with history. Ghost town expert Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to know to explore these remnants of the past. Featured are color maps, driving and walking directions, town histories, touring recommendations, and stunning color photography of 70 sites, including the famous Bodie. Come see where it all started at the mother lode, and trace the great migration throughout the region. Visit the northern mines and the ghosts of San Francisco Bay, the Eastern Sierra, Death Valley, and the Mojave Desert. This is the essential guidebook to the glory days of the Old West!
Author : Ramon Frederick Adams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 1998-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486400358
Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.
Author : J.R. Roberts
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612325009
Author : William Carter
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Survey of abandoned towns, mostly mining towns, in the West. Well illustrated.
Author : Ralph K. Andrist
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 161230897X
The discovery of a nugget in California in 1848 set off the first gold rush in history. In 1849 alone, the population increased 500 percent as 80,000 men rushed to claim its riches; three years later, nearly 250,000 people lived there. By 1865, miners had dug and panned $750 million in gold from the hills and streambeds of California. In other countries, mines that produced precious metals were the property of kings and princes. But in California, the gold, like everything else on the frontier, belonged to those who took it. In The Gold Rush, historian Ralph K. Andrist details the culture and characters that created a pivotal moment in American history.
Author : Charles Edward Chapel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0486163067
DIVDramatic story of shoulder arms, hand guns, and other weapons also describes the men who used them. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of the Kentucky and Sharps rifle, Colt revolver, and much more. 499 black-and-white illustrations. /div
Author : Jim Hinckley
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0760369690
Ghost Towns of Route 66 guides you through more than 25 fascinating ghost towns along America's Main Street-Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley fills you in on their rich history and the photography of Kerrick James brings their haunting beauty to life.
Author : Susan E. James
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2024-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1040253644
This book examines the life of the Townsend family and the events that occurred during the period of 1856–1926 that shaped an expanding American West. Bryant and Julia (Riley) Townsend and their three children were born into an age of rapid change and competing cultures. Witnesses to a century of events that shaped a nation, their lives define the complexities and challenges of incomers who arrived in an expanding American West. From the Gold Rush to the California oil boom, from slavery to female suffrage, from Indian Wars to World Wars, the Townsends lived through violent upheavals, outlasting cities, societal beliefs and entire ways of life. Married in a mining camp in Nevada and relocating frequently, the couple embraced the momentary riches, shattering losses and personal disasters faced by a vast number of immigrants, foreign and domestic, striving to survive in an often-hostile landscape. Their lives and those of their three children, Minnie Edith, Bryant and Persia, form the architecture supporting an examination of multiple facets of the Western experience and are exemplars of the different populations that merged to form the American identity. This volume will be of value to students and scholars interested in American history, social and cultural history and modern history.
Author : Harlan D. Unrau
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN :