Silverburg, Robert
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.
41050
-- History.--West (U.S.) --West (U.S.)
978 Sil 48
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.
41050
-- History.--West (U.S.) --West (U.S.)
978 Sil 48