California Ghost Town Trails - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook California Ghost Town Trails write by Mickey Broman. This book was released on 1978. California Ghost Town Trails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
California Ghost Town Trails
California Ghost Town Trails - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook California Ghost Town Trails write by Allan L. Abbott. This book was released on 1973. California Ghost Town Trails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ghost Town Trails
Ghost Town Trails - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghost Town Trails write by Lambert Florin. This book was released on 1963. Ghost Town Trails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Southern California's Best Ghost Towns
Southern California's Best Ghost Towns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern California's Best Ghost Towns write by Philip Varney. This book was released on 1994-03-01. Southern California's Best Ghost Towns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Bonanza Trail
The Bonanza Trail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bonanza Trail write by Muriel Sibell Wolle. This book was released on 2018-03-12. The Bonanza Trail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THIS is the story of the men who sought for gold, from California to the eastern rim of the Rocky Mountains. Mrs. Wolle writes colorfully of the unbelievable privations the men endured in penetrating the fastnesses of the high Sierra and the Rockies and in crossing the desert wastes of Arizona, Utah and Nevada; of the mines first discovered in New Mexico by Coronado and his men four centuries ago; and the first great rush that hit California in 1849. She follows the miners who poured in successive waves into the golden gulches of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, climbed to the deeper mines high in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, and dared at last to penetrate the Indian-infested Black Hills of South Dakota. It is doubtful if the vividness of this phase of history will ever fade for American readers. In personally following the trails of the pioneering prospectors, Mrs. Wolle finds her excitement continually renewed, as she stumbles upon mute evidence of past bloodshed, lust and struggle. It is this excitement which she conveys to her readers both in the text and in the more than one hundred on-the-spot drawings which show the towns and town sites with the eye of the nostalgic lover of this picturesque and courageous part of our national heritage. A guide book for the adventurous, THE BONANZA TRAIL will be attractive alike to travelers, American history enthusiasts and collectors of Americana. Nor will its pages soon be forgotten by the general reader. “THE BONANZA TRAIL is the fascinating and definitive book on the ghost and near-ghost towns of the Old West for which so many students and amateurs of Western Americana have been waiting. Like the once booming camps and diggings which are its subject, it is a repository of the wonderments, glories and pathos of pioneer times and romantic bonanzas....A book that, to the informed intelligence, is almost impossible to put down.”—LUCIUS BEEBE, The Territorial Enterprise
