Looking Back at Cerro Gordo - 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 Looking Back at Cerro Gordo write by . This book was released on . Looking Back at Cerro Gordo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cerro Gordo
Cerro Gordo - 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 Cerro Gordo write by Cecile Page Vargo. This book was released on 2012. Cerro Gordo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By the last quarter of the 20th century, Jody Stewart and Mike Patterson found themselves owners of the rough and tumble camp that helped Los Angeles turn into a thriving metropolis because of silver and commercial trade. Cerro Gordo found new life, second to Bodie, as California's best-preserved ghost town.
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.
Cerro Gordo Centennial, 1855-1955
Cerro Gordo Centennial, 1855-1955 - 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 Cerro Gordo Centennial, 1855-1955 write by Cerro Gordo (Ill.). Centennial Committee. This book was released on 1955. Cerro Gordo Centennial, 1855-1955 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Red Light Women of Death Valley
Red Light Women of Death Valley - 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 Red Light Women of Death Valley write by Robin Flinchum. This book was released on 2015-09-28. Red Light Women of Death Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Focuses on the lives of several prostitutes who worked in Death Valley area boomtowns between the 1870s and the early 1900s . . . Colorful and intriguing” (Pahrump Valley Times). From the 1870s to the turn of the century, while countless men gambled their fortunes in Death Valley’s mines, many bold women capitalized on the boom-and-bust lifestyle and established saloons and brothels. These lively ladies were clever entrepreneurs and fearless adventurers but also mothers, wives, and respected members of their communities. Madam Lola Travis was one of the wealthiest single women in Inyo County in the 1870s. Known as “Diamond Tooth Lil,” Evelyn Hildegard was a poor immigrant girl who became a western legend. Local author and historian Robin Flinchum chronicles the lives of these women and many others who were unafraid to live outside the bounds of polite society and risk everything for a better future in the forbidding Death Valley desert. Includes photos! “Flinchum’s lively prose and detailed descriptions bring these women into focus, and provide a historically accurate and interesting overview of Death Valley’s pioneering mining era.” —Sierra Wave Media “A thoroughly entertaining and highly enlightening account of the wild Death Valley boom camps’ daring red light ladies . . . A very enjoyable and engaging book. A great read!” —Richard Lingenfelter, author of Death Valley & the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion
