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

ContentsTo the ReaderIntroduction: “Gold! Gold! Gold on the American
River!” Chapter OneGhosts of The Mother LodeColomaGeorgetownAmador
CityVolcanoMokelumne HillCampo SecoMurphysColumbiaChinese Camp Chapter Two
Ghosts of The Northern MinesNevada CityDutch FlatNorth Bloomfield and
Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park   DownievilleSierra CityJohnsville and
the Plumas-Eureka State Park Chapter ThreeGhosts of the North Country
ShastaFrench GulchWeavervilleHelenaCallahan Chapter FourGhosts of San
Francisco Bay AlcatrazAngel IslandFort PointChina CampLocke Chapter Five
Ghosts of the Eastern Sierra BodieManzanarThe Cottonwood Charcoal
KilnsCerro GordoKeeler Chapter SixSpirits of Death ValleySkidooThe Wildrose
Charcoal KilnsThe Harmony Borax WorksLeadfieldRyanShoshone Chapter Seven
Ghost of the Mojave Desert KelsoCalicoRandsburgThe Tropico Gold MineWillow
Springs Llano AcknowledgmentsGlossaryBibliographyIndexAbout the Author and
Photographer

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