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Colorado Ghost Towns


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Book cover for "Atlas of Colorado ghost towns"
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Book cover for "Colorado ghost towns and mining camps"
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2.5 stars
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3.7 stars
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5 stars
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This heavily illustrated volume presents a panorama of Western Americana through a verbal and visual exploration of the regions ghost towns.
Book cover for "Guide to the Colorado ghost towns and mining camps"
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"This is not a history book. Rather it is a directory of towns, and compilation of known information about those towns. In undertaking the stud, I was amazed at the amount of legend and contradictory information Colorado history has collected in just one hundred years. Who was it that said: 'History is the perpetuation of saleable gossip'? (Perhaps, nobody has said it yet. In that case, it's mine, all mine.) "As of this moment, this is the most complete...
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4 stars
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A guide to appreciating and understanding the history of abandoned mining camps shows how to use the techniques of an historical sleuth to identify and interpret what one sees at a ghost town.
Book cover for "Mountain biking Colorado's historic mining districts"
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4.8 stars
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This book includes the story of 240 of Colorado's mining camps, with emphasis on the human side. The men who swarmed to the mountains to find precious metal came in successive waves from the late 1850s on, combing the gulches, scrambling over the passes and climbing the peaks. Their story is full of adventurous chances, lucky strikes, boom conditions, reckless spending, banditry, claim jumping, railroad wars and labor troubles. The author searched...
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3 stars
Book cover for "Traces of Fremont"
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3 stars
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Fremont is a culture first defined by archaeologist Noel Morss in 1928 based on characteristics unique to the Fremont River drainage. Initially thought to be a simple sociopolitical system, recent reassessment of the Fremont (ca. 300-1300 A.D.) assume a more complex society. This volume places Fremont rock art studies in this contemporary context. Author Steven Simms offers an innovative model of Fremont society, politics, and worldview using the...
Book cover for "Tracking ghost railroads in Colorado"
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A field guide for those who enjoy exploring old railroad grades, this book features seventy-one color maps and over 160 "then and now" photographs, with a historical summary of each line, what can be seen and how to find it.
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5 stars