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Author
Pub. Date
c1988
Description
This illustrated guide to Kansas ghost towns will delight travelers and armchair tourists alike. Organized by region, it tells the story of 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only "a shadowy remnant of what they once were." Fitzgerald chronicles each town's settlement, politics, colorful figures and legends, and eventual abandonment or decline. Ten maps and detailed intructions for finding each site are included.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West.
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Description
The "Roadside History" series charts a course to the present through carefully selected and thoroughly researched stories relating what we see today with what happened before. Through vivid anecdotes, old photographs, and maps, the "Roadside History" guides provide entertaining insight into the states they describe.Each state is divided into geographical and historical regions, and each region is described in the context of highways that pass through...
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
This book includes nearly 1,000 abandoned sites in Eastern Colorado covering 26 counties from the Colorado foothills eastward. It is a history of ghosts towns on a sea of grass - from stage stations, military forts, once-thriving towns along the cattle trails to agricultural communities. It is a tale of homsesteaders hoping to create a better life for their family. Contemporary photographs document the abandoned buildings and empty fields were people...
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