Author: Remi NadeauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of California
Author: Remi NadeauGhost Towns and Mining Camps of California
Author: Remi A. NadeauPublisher: Crest Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Accounts of gold-rush days in the Mother Lode camps, with stories of bad men and gold seekers, from history and folklore.
Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of California
Author: Remi A. NadeauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Brings to life the turbulent times in the heyday of each town and guides the visitor to the sights that are relies of those times. Historic photos.
Ghost Towns of California
Author: Philip VarneyPublisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1610585631
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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!
The Mining Camps Speak
Author: Beth SagstetterPublisher: Benchmark Publishing (Company)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A guide to appreciating and understanding the history of abandoned mining camps shows how to use the techniques of an historical sleuth to identify and interpret what one sees at a ghost town.
Ghost Towns of Northern California
Author: Philip VarneyPublisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 9780896584440
Category : California, Northern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A pictorial discovery guide through about 50 of Northern California's most
Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps
Author: Stanley W. PaherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The detailed history of Nevada's ghost towns are chronicled along with numerous B/W photos of more than 575 mining sites and towns.
Arizona Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
Author: Philip VarneyPublisher: Arizona Highways Books
ISBN: 9780916179441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A guide to ghost towns and abandoned mining camps in Arizona includes historical photographs, a color portfolio, regional maps, descriptions, and directions to each site.
Ghost Towns of California
Author: Richard MillerPublisher: American Traveler Press
ISBN: 9781558381247
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A ghost town is only as good as the stories about it. The legends of bar-fights, famous visitors, and big findings of gold are throughout this book. It also has a good map and directions on locating the towns, some of which are "alive" today.
Southern California's Best Ghost Towns
Author: Philip VarneyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806126081
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The ghost towns of Southern California-some dramatic and nearly intact, others devastated-are well worth visiting. Most are remnants of once-colorful mining towns, though there are also railroad towns, a World War II relocation center, a promoter's swindle, and a failed socialist colony. Some excellent attractions remain. One of the best-preserved stamp mills in the West is in Skidoo. Smelters, homes, stores, and the remarkable wooden American Hotel can be found in Cerro Gordo, which the author calls "California's best true ghost town." Seasoned back-roads traveler Philip Varney, who has visited nearly a hundred ghost towns in the area, provides a down-to-earth and helpful guide to more than sixty of the best in Southern California and nearby Inyo and Kern counties. He defines a ghost town as a town with a population markedly decreased from its peak, one whose initial reason for settlement no longer keeps people there. It can be completely deserted, have a resident or two, or retain genuine signs of vitality, but Varney has eliminated those towns he considers either too populated or too empty of significant remains. The sites are grouped in four chapters in Inyo County, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and Kern River, and the regions surrounding Los Angeles and San Diego. Each chapter provides a map of the region, a ranking of sites as "major," "secondary," and "minor," information on road conditions, trip suggestions, and tips on the use of particular topographic maps for readers interested in more detailed exploration. Each entry includes directions to a town, a brief history of that town, and notes on its special points of interest. Current photographs provide a valuable record of the sometimes fragile sites. Southern California's Best Ghost Towns will be welcomed both by those who enjoy traveling off the beaten path and by those who enjoy the history of the American West.