Best Ghost Towns In America - April 2024

Arizona Ghost Towns and Mining Camps/a Travel Guide to History

Ghost town authority Philip Varney brings Old West to life with intriguing anecdotes and a gallery of rare historic photographs. Regional maps along with detailed travel information tell what each site is like today. Now completely updated with GPS waypoints.

• ASIN: 1932082468
• ASIN: 1932082468
• ISBN: 1932082468
• Brand: Brand: Arizona Highways
• Manufacturer: Arizona Highways

Ghost Towns of the West

Ghosts Towns of the West is filled with photographs, maps, history, and detailed directions to find the best ghost towns to linger in the wake of the Old West.Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the American West, including one-time boomtowns in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The book reveals the little-known stories of long-dead soldiers, indigenous peoples, settlers, farmers, and miners. Perfect for planning a road trip, each section covers a geographic area and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0760350418
• ASIN: 0760350418
• ISBN: 0760350418
• Manufacturer: Voyageur Press

New Mexico's Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guide

This useful guidebook surveys more than eighty ghost towns, grouped by geographic area. First published in 1981 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, it has been praised in particular for its instructions on how to reach even the most obscure sites.

• ASIN: 0826310109
• ASIN: 0826310109
• ISBN: 0826310109
• Brand: Brand: University of New Mexico Press
• Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press

Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Illustrated with 700 historic and modern photographs, with numerous maps.

• ASIN: 0913814040
• ASIN: 0913814040
• ISBN: 0913814040
• Brand: Brand: Howell North
• Manufacturer: Howell North

Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Prospectors lured to the West in hopes of striking rich settled a thousand towns in the Colorado mountains. The cry of “Gold!” or “Silver!” or a few flecks of color in a tin cup sent them to remote, often inhospitable locations to search for the precious metals. Close on the heels of the miners were the merchant, the gamblers, the prostitutes, the washerwomen, the capitalists, and the con men. Together they turned the mining camps into bustling towns where saloons never closed and the safest place for a man to walk after dark was down the middle of the street with a gun in each hand. C... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0806120843
• ASIN: 0806120843
• ISBN: 0806120843
• Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press

Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition: A guide to Colorado's casual gold prospecting, mining history and sightseeing

Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1719553467
• ASIN: 1719553467
• ISBN: 1719553467
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Guide to Arizona Backroads & 4-Wheel-Drive Trails 2nd Edition

This is an ALL-NEW, full-color second edition. The new book is spiral bound with a thick, durable cover. It's been expanded to 100 trails, including 43 new trails not in the previous edition. Whether you're a newcomer to 4-wheeling or an experienced veteran, we guarantee you'll have fun. Trails include desert and mountain areas, many close to Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff. In addition, we've added more trails around stunning Sedona. Featured new trails in other parts of Arizona include Canyon de Chelly, Monument Valley and El Camino del Diablo. Easy, moderate and difficult routes are color co... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1934838195
• ASIN: 1934838195
• ISBN: 9781934838198
• Brand: Funtreks Inc
• Manufacturer: Funtreks Inc

Saint Death - John Milton #2 (John Milton Series)

John Milton has been off the grid for six months. He surfaces in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and immediately finds himself drawn into a vicious battle with the narco-gangs that control the borderlands. Milton saves the life of an idealistic young journalist who has been targeted for execution. The only way to keep her safe is to smuggle her into Texas. Working with the only untouchable cops in the city, and a bounty hunter whose motives are unclear, Milton must keep her safe until the crossing can be made. But when the man looking for her is the legendary assassin Santa Muerta - Saint Death - that... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00EZQ2BZC
• ASIN: B00EZQ2BZC
• Manufacturer: Unputdownable

Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures

New edition of George Thompson's classic work on Utah ghost towns and lost treasure. Over 400 Utah ghost towns are covered and hundreds more lost treasure tales are told. Illustrated with 120 historical photographs and a dozen maps. Each chapter is arranged geographically for each section of the state and includes a general locator map. Some Dreams Die has been regularly selling online for $100 a copy and up! This is your chance to order an affordable edition.

• ASIN: 0942688015
• ASIN: 0942688015
• ISBN: 0942688015
• Manufacturer: Dream Garden Press

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

After dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through.So begins life in the United States for many people every day. And so begins this collection of twelve autobiographical stories by Santa Clara University professor Francisco Jiménez, who at the age of four illegally crossed the border with his family in 1947."The Circuit," the story of young Panchito and his trumpet, is one of the most widely anthologized stories in Chicano literature. At long last, Jiménez offers more about the wise, sensitive little boy who has grown... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0826317979
• ASIN: 0826317979
• ISBN: 0826317979
• Brand: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
• Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press

Ghost Towns of Route 66

Ghost towns lie all along the Mother Road. The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boom towns built around oil wells, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than 25 ghost towns, rich in stories and history, complemented by gorgeous sepia-tone and color photography by Kerrick James. Also includes directions and travel tips for your ghost-town explorations along Route 66.Explore the beauty and nostalgia of these abandoned communities along America... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0760338434
• UPC: 752748338432
• ASIN: 0760338434
• ISBN: 0760338434
• Brand: Brand: Voyageur Press
• Manufacturer: Voyageur Press

Dark of the Moon (A Virgil Flowers Novel, Book 1)

The first Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.“Virgil Flowers, introduced in bestseller Sandford’s Prey series, gets a chance to shine...The thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), who reports to Prey series hero Lucas Davenport, operates pretty much on his own..”*He’s been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he’s never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Three weeks before, a doctor and his... [Read More]

• ASIN: B000W94GH2
• ASIN: B000W94GH2
• Brand: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Weird Colorado: Your Travel Guide to Colorado's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

For weirdness to flourish, it requires a combination of dramatic history, amazing environments, and truly unique, off-the-grid characters. Colorado is blessed with all three! From the strange tale of Alfred Packer to Fruita's annual commemoration of Mike (the rooster that lost its head but not its will to live), there's no shortage of bizarre history and happenings in this Rocky Mountain locale.

• ASIN: 1402754639
• ASIN: 1402754639
• ISBN: 1402754639
• Brand: Brand: Sterling
• Manufacturer: Sterling

Powder Ghost Towns: Epic Backcountry Runs in Colorado's Lost Ski Resorts

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 Bo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 089997466X
• UPC: 719609974666
• ASIN: 089997466X
• ISBN: 089997466X
• Brand: Brand: Wilderness Press
• Manufacturer: Wilderness Press

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK   A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the rea... [Read More]

• ASIN: 044900371X
• ASIN: 044900371X
• ISBN: 044900371X
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Ghost In The Shell (Walmart Exclusive) (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD)

“Scarlett Johansson is terrific” ( Stephanie Zacharek, Time) in the visually stunning Ghost in the Shell, an action-packed adventure set in a future world where people are enhanced with technology. Believing she was rescued from

• UPC: 55749852
• Model: VIPRB-Ghost in the Shell 2017 (Blu-ray)
• Rating: 4.75

Ghost Town (DVD)

Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has

• UPC: 207517031

Mary Jane's Ghost : The Legacy of a Murder in Small Town America

"Summer 1948. In the scenic, remote river town of Oregon, Illinois, a young couple visiting the local lovers' lane is murdered. The shocking crime garners headlines from Portland, Maine, to Long Beach, California. But after

• UPC: 55799712
• Rating: 3.0

Dean Teaster's Ghost Town (DVD)

Love, hate, family, forgiveness, redemption and sacrifice rock this small western town. Family honor is defended while the gold rush surges

• UPC: 10258755
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 3.5

Ghost In The Shell (Walmart Exclusive) (DVD)

“Scarlett Johansson is terrific” ( Stephanie Zacharek, Time) in the visually stunning Ghost in the Shell, an action-packed adventure set in a future world where people are enhanced with technology. Believing she was rescued from

• UPC: 55749853
• Rating: 4.0

Ghost Town (Blu-ray)

Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has

• UPC: 747992565

Ghost Town (Blu-ray)

This interesting fusion of the horror and Western genres involves a modern-day sheriff (Franc Luz) whose search for a missing heiress leads him into the title locale, a frontier-age Arizona township whose residents are cursed

• UPC: 44723907
• Model: 826663159745
• Color: YOther

Ghost Town

Sara Collins is a normal 12-year-old girl with an abnormal secret: She is psychic. Sara wants nothing more than to have a normal life. But Sara's life is about to be turned upside down, because

• UPC: 17613381
• Rating: 3.333

Ghost Town at Sundown

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Wild West, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a

• UPC: 378116
• Rating: 4.133

Ghost Town : The Morganville Vampires

While developing a new system to maintain the town's defenses, Claire Danvers discovers a way to use the vampires' powers to keep outsiders from spreading news of Morganville's "unique" situation. But when people in town

• UPC: 14538604
• Rating: 4.482

Dust in the Wind A Guide to Some of the Best Ghost Towns in America Gary Speck

• UPC: 281462829648
• Category: Other Books
• Price: 23 USD