• Colorado's Best Ghost Towns

    This four-color 8 x 10 book is designed to show through photographs what the best 105 ghost towns in Colorado look like. The photographs are complimented by a brief history of each abandoned town. A rating system was used to determine which towns to include. A GPS location is given for each site along with maps of each major area covered in the book.

    • ASIN: 1928656099
    • ASIN: 1928656099
    • ISBN: 1928656099
    • Manufacturer: J.V. Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ghost Towns of the Mountain West: Your Guide to the Hidden History and Old West Haunts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Mont

    The RockyMountain and Great Basin states are the heart of ghost-town country. Once-bustling pioneer outposts, mining camps, lumber towns, and railroad villages stand today as reminders of the glory days of gold rushes, industrial progress, and that pioneering spirit of the Old West. This book guides readers to the fascinating and scenic ghost towns of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Nevada. Varney highlights popular tourist destinations as well as out-of-the-way spots unfamiliar even to natives of the region. Maps, historical background, and stunning color photographs bring to lif... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0760333580
    • UPC: 752748333581
    • ASIN: 0760333580
    • ISBN: 0760333580
    • Brand: Voyageur Press Inc. U.S.
    • Manufacturer: Voyageur Press

  • 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 Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

    A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure-garbage removal, clean water, sewers-necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease no one knows how to cure. As the cholera outbreak takes hold, a physician and a local curate are spurred to action-and ultimately solve the most pressing medical riddle of their time. In a triumph of... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1594482691
    • ASIN: 1594482691
    • ISBN: 1594482691
    • Brand: Johnson, Steven
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

  • 'Salem's Lot

    Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control.

    • ASIN: 0307743675
    • ASIN: 0307743675
    • ISBN: 0307743675
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Colorado Ghost Towns: Past and Present

    Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis is the third in Robert L. Brown's series of picturesque guidebooks to another era.  In text and photographs he has captured the sense of the historic as well as the nostalgic of a new selection of ghost towns and mining camps that dot the back country byways and high mountain valleys of Colorado.

    • ASIN: 0870042181
    • ASIN: 0870042181
    • ISBN: 0870042181
    • Brand: Brand: Caxton Press
    • Manufacturer: Caxton Press

  • Carrie

    Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal...until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget.

    • ASIN: 0307743667
    • ASIN: 0307743667
    • ISBN: 0307743667
    • Brand: Anchor
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Stampede To Timberline: Ghost Towns & Mining

    This book includes the story of 240 of Colorado’s mining camps, with emphasis on the human side. The men who swarmed to the mountains to find precious metal came in successive waves from the late 1850s on, combing the gulches, scrambling over the passes and climbing the peaks. Their story is full of adventurous chances, lucky strikes, boom conditions, reckless spending, banditry, claim jumping, railroad wars and labor troubles.The author searched the Colorado Rockies from the time she saw and sketched her first ghost town until she had rediscovered and painted the vanishing mining camps. Twe... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0804009465
    • ASIN: 0804009465
    • ISBN: 0804009465
    • Brand: Brand: Swallow Press
    • Manufacturer: Swallow Press

  • 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

  • Nevada Ghost Towns & Desert Atlas, Vol. 2 Southern Nevada-Death Valley (Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps Illustrated Atlas)

    This is a well-researched guide to more than 1100 desert destinations in Southern Nevada's scenic backcountry. With 33 new color maps for desert explorers, and 265 vintage photos, you can visit and learn about historic places, natural features, placer gold sites, campgrounds, gemstone sites, caves, hot springs, and recreation areas.

    • ASIN: 0913814105
    • ASIN: 0913814105
    • ISBN: 0913814105
    • Brand: Brand: Nevada Pubns
    • Manufacturer: Nevada Pubns

  • 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

  • Southern California's Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guide

    Describes sixty ghost towns and the reasons for their decline

    • ASIN: 0806122528
    • ASIN: 0806122528
    • ISBN: 0806122528
    • Brand: Brand: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
    • Manufacturer: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

  • 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

  • Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns - Paperback

    Deals with the mining camps of Colorado. This book is an illustrated history of 59 towns famous during the gold and silver rushes of the 1800's, with directions on how to get to

    • UPC: 40401212

  • 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

  • Ghost Town

    From the stars of the SyFy network's popular show "Ghost Hunters," the second novel in a new spine-tingling series. When Amber, Drew, and Trevor are invited to a paranormal conference, they confront a murderous ghost

    • UPC: 20561512
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Ghost Town - eBook

    A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out.

    • UPC: 233398198
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Ghost Town

    A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out.

    • UPC: 25664945
    • Rating: 5.0

  • 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 towns of the mountain west : your guide to the hidden history and old west haunts of colorado,: 9780760333587

    Maps, historical background, and stunning color photographs bring to life dozens of ghost towns and provide practical information for exploring this fascinating chapter of American

    • UPC: 12552893

  • Voices at Twilight : A Poet's Guide to Wyoming Ghost Towns

    In Voices at Twilight, a collection of poems, historical essays, and photographs, Lori Howe illuminates past and present Wyoming ghost towns. The poems, essays, and photographs of Voices at Twilight offer the reader a visual

    • UPC: 53643352

  • Bachelor, Colorado : History of a San Juan Mining Ghost Town

    While Creede, Colorado, had the reputation as a wide-open mining town in the early 1890s ("there is no night in Creede"), Creede's miners went two miles up the hill to nearby Bachelor to drink, gamble

    • UPC: 248433421

  • 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

    • UPC: 35394299

  • COLORADO'S BEST GHOST TOWNS By Kenneth Jessen **BRAND NEW**

    • UPC: 183887052092
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 43 USD

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