Philip Varney

Ghost Towns of California (eBook, PDF)

Your Guide to the Hidden History and Old West Haunts of California

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ghost Towns of California is a guidebook to the state's best boomtowns. Once thriving, these abandoned mining camps and pioneer villages still ring with history.

Ghost town expert Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to know to explore these remnants of the past. Featured are color maps, driving and walking directions, town histories, touring recommendations, and stunning color photography of 70 sites, including the famous Bodie.

Come see where it all started at the mother lode, and trace the great migration throughout the region. Visit the northern mines and the ghosts of San Francisco Bay, the Eastern Sierra, Death Valley, and the Mojave Desert. This is the essential guidebook to the glory days of the Old West!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Voyageur Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610585637
• Artikelnr.: 37927076

Autorenporträt

Phillip Varney is the author and photographer of seven books about ghost towns. He has toured and photographed more than six hundred ghost towns throughout the American West. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents To the Reader Introduction: “Gold! Gold! Gold on the American
River!” Chapter OneGhosts of The Mother Lode Coloma Georgetown Amador City
Volcano Mokelumne Hill Campo Seco Murphys Columbia Chinese Camp Chapter Two
Ghosts of The Northern Mines Nevada City Dutch Flat North Bloomfield and
Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park Downieville Sierra City Johnsville and
the Plumas-Eureka State Park Chapter ThreeGhosts of the North Country
Shasta French Gulch Weaverville Helena Callahan Chapter FourGhosts of San
Francisco Bay Alcatraz Angel Island Fort Point China Camp Locke Chapter
FiveGhosts of the Eastern Sierra Bodie Manzanar The Cottonwood Charcoal
Kilns Cerro Gordo Keeler Chapter SixSpirits of Death Valley Skidoo The
Wildrose Charcoal Kilns The Harmony Borax Works Leadfield Ryan Shoshone
Chapter Seven Ghost of the Mojave Desert Kelso Calico Randsburg The Tropico
Gold Mine Willow Springs Llano Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography Index
About the Author and Photographer

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