Ghost towns of the American West
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If it is abandoned by all or most of its inhabitants, a settlement becomes a ghost town. The buildings and dirt streets may remain, but the character and soul of the place change entirely. And so it was with mining camps, lumber camps, and cowboy towns scattered across America, particularly in the West: places with names like Gregory's Diggings, Deadwood, Bodie, Calico, Goldfield, and Tombstone, some of the over 30,000 deserted towns in the United States.
Why did people come to these isolated places? Why did they leave? As Raymond Bial's narrative explores the history of our ghost towns, his well-composed photo-graphs silently tell their stories: of bustling, muddy streets, of large mercantile stores, and, ultimately, of short-lived dreams of gold, fertile land, or simply a good place to call home.
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Grouping Title | ghost towns of the american west |
Grouping Author | raymond bial |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-09-16 02:13:39AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-09-16 02:34:22AM |
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If it is abandoned by all or most of its inhabitants, a settlement becomes a ghost town. The buildings and dirt streets may remain, but the character and soul of the place change entirely. And so it was with mining camps, lumber camps, and cowboy towns scattered across America, particularly in the West: places with names like Gregory's Diggings, Deadwood, Bodie, Calico, Goldfield, and Tombstone, some of the over 30,000 deserted towns in the United States.
Why did people come to these isolated places? Why did they leave? As Raymond Bial's narrative explores the history of our ghost towns, his well-composed photo-graphs silently tell their stories: of bustling, muddy streets, of large mercantile stores, and, ultimately, of short-lived dreams of gold, fertile land, or simply a good place to call home.
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9780618065578
Houghton Mifflin
Ghost towns
Ghost towns -- West (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature
West (U.S.) -- History
West (U.S.) -- History, Local -- Juvenile literature
Ghost towns of the American West / Raymond Bial
Geography
Ghost towns
History
History, Local
Juvenile Nonfiction
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