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Author: Susan Hutchison Tassin
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0811749878
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores towns, settlements, forts, and other areas that have been completely deserted or brought back to life as tourist attractions.
Author: Patrick McGrath
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-12-22
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1408866218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Three haunting and brilliant tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath 'Sharp and haunting ... McGrath's prose is clean, lucid and utterly transfixing' Sunday Times 'Like a latter-day Edgar Allan Poe, McGrath probes the insanity and violence lurking beneath the skin of daily life' Financial Times A man is haunted by the memory of his mother with a rope round her neck. It is the American War of Independence, and having defied the British forces occupying New York she must pay for her revolutionary activities. But fifty years on her son harbours a festering guilt for his inadvertent part in her downfall. In thrusting nineteenth-century New York, a ruthless merchant's sensitive son is denied the love of his life through his father's prejudice against the immigrants flooding into the city - and madness and violence ensue. In the wake of 9/11, a Manhattan psychiatrist treats a favoured patient reeling from the destruction of the World Trade Center, but fails to detect the damage she herself has sustained. In this trio of stunning tales from a master storyteller, Patrick McGrath excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history.
Author: Susan Tassin
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 081170825X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores towns, settlements, forts, and other areas that have been completely deserted or brought back to life as tourist attractions 40 ghost towns, including Love Canal, the Oneida Community, Fort William Henry of Last of the Mohicans fame, and Bedloe's Island, which now holds the Statue of Liberty Covers the history of the sites, personal interest stories, what remains today, and how to get there Divided into geographical sections so readers can plan visits to multiple sites
Author: Barbara Solem-Stull
Publisher: Plexus Publishing (UK)
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780937548608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780806120843
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom
Author: John F. Polhemus
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In the 1700s, poor Yankees and freed slaves carved out homesteads on a rugged mountain on the New York-Connecticut border. They shared the mountain with the embattled Schaghticoke Indian tribe. This is the story of both groups' failed attempts to hold onto their land in the shadow of America's first industrial boom--the age of iron. The people abandoned the mountain and the forest grew back. All that remains is a ghost town."--Cover.
Author: Peter Bronski
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Published: 2013-03-04
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780899975184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In its heyday, Colorado had more than 175 ski areas operating on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains, and while many of those resorts have shut down, their runs still shelter secret stashes of snow. Pristine slopes await backcountry powder hounds out to discover these chutes and steeps, bunny hills and bumps. Chronicling the history of more than 36 of these "lost resorts," Powder Ghost Towns provides the beta for how to ski and board these classic runs today, with comprehensive information on trailheads, where to skin up, and the best descents. Coverage ranges from southern Wyoming's Medicine Bow Mountains to the Colorado-New Mexico border, including famous old resorts like Hidden Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Author: Raymond Bial
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2001-02-26
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13: 054756189X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →If it is abandoned by all or most of its inhabitants, a settlement becomes a ghost town. The buildings and dirt streets may remain, but the character and soul of the place change entirely. And so it was with mining camps, lumber camps, and cowboy towns scattered across America, particularly in the West: places with names like Gregory’s Diggings, Deadwood, Bodie, Calico, Goldfield, and Tombstone, some of the over 30,000 deserted towns in the United States. Why did people come to these isolated places? Why did they leave? As Raymond Bial’s narrative explores the history of our ghost towns, his well-composed photo-graphs silently tell their stories: of bustling, muddy streets, of large mercantile stores, and, ultimately, of short-lived dreams of gold, fertile land, or simply a good place to call home.
Author: J. W. Ocker
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1581577729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the author of The New England Grimpendium comes a new travelogue and insider’s guide to wicked, weird, wonderful New York. When J. W. Ocker’s first book, The New England Grimpendium, emerged on the scene, Max Weinstein of Fangoria.com called it “a travelogue for those who revel in the glory of their nightmares.” Rick Broussard at New Hampshire Magazine said of it, “I’ve read a dozen books about New England ghosties and weirdnesses, and this one is my favorite. It’s also one of the few that actually came up with stuff I didn’t already know about.” Now the author of that Lowell Thomas Award winner has unearthed hundreds of similarly creepy and colorful places in the Empire State that will make your skin crawl and your hair stand on end! Ocker’s essays on these places, some little known, some area landmarks, include directions and site information along with entertaining anecdotes delivered in his signature wry style. It’s definitely a wild ride from a jar full of the harvested brains of dead killers to horror movie filming sites around the state; from a ships’ graveyard to lake monster sightings. If it’s in New York and it’s bizarrely noteworthy or wonderfully wacky, you’ll find it in The New York Grimpendium.
Author: Mario Kaiser
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2003-05-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780810945081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Commissioned by Smithsonian Magazine, a tour of nineteen of America's ghost towns features coverage of such deserted places as Bodie, California; Gold Point, Nevada; and Steins, New Mexico; depicted at dusk while using long exposures and ambiance-capturing light technology.
