Author: Remi A. Nadeau
Publisher: Crest Publishers
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Accounts of gold-rush days in the Mother Lode camps, with stories of bad men and gold seekers, from history and folklore.
Author: Philip Varney
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Published: 2012-07-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1610585631
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Beth Sagstetter
Publisher: Benchmark Publishing (Company)
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Philip Varney
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780896584440
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A pictorial discovery guide through about 50 of Northern California's most
Author: Philip Varney
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1994-03-01
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780806126081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Philip Varney
Publisher: Arizona Highways Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780916179441
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Stanley W. Paher
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The detailed history of Nevada's ghost towns are chronicled along with numerous B/W photos of more than 575 mining sites and towns.
Author: Muriel Sibell Wolle
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2018-02
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 0253033284
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