Ghost towns of the American West.
By: Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklung.
Publisher: Crowell
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Ghost towns -- West (U.S.); Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.) -- History.; West (U.S.) -- History, Local.
Description: The story of the American mining frontier can be traced in the ghost towns--from the camps of California's forty-niners to the twentieth-century ruins in the Nevada desert. They mark an epoch of high adventure, of qick wealth and quicker poverty, of gambling and gunslinging and hell-raising.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 295-297.