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Ghost Towns of the West Kindle Edition

by Jim Hinckley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A traveler’s guide to the abandoned boom town of the American Old West, filled with photographs, maps, history, and detailed directions.

Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the American West, including one-time boomtowns in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The book reveals the little-known stories of long-dead soldiers, indigenous peoples, settlers, farmers, and miners.

Perfect for planning a road trip, each section covers a geographic area and town entries are arranged by location to make this the most user-friendly book on ghost towns west of the Mississippi. Most ghost towns are within a short drive of major cities out West, and they make excellent day trip excursions. If you happen to be in or near Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, or El Paso, for example, you ought to veer towards the nearest ghost town. Western ghost towns can also easily be visited during jaunts to national parks, including Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Crater Lake, Mount Rainier, Glacier, Yellowstone, and many others throughout the West.

Ghost Towns of the West is a comprehensive guide to former boomtowns of the American West, covering ghost towns in eleven states from Washington to New Mexico, and from California to Montana. Whether you’re envisioning a marathon ghost towns tour or simply want to visit a vestige of the past near your home, this book has everything you need to learn about, visit, and explore a modern remnant of how life used to be on the western range.

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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.

Jim Hinckley is the author of twenty books and hundreds of feature articles on Route 66, the American Southwest, and the American auto industry. He has been a featured speaker at European Route 66 festivals in Germany and the Czech Republic, and at events in the United States and Canada. Hinckley is a former associate editor for Cars & Parts, and currently writes a monthly feature for New Zealand-based MotoringNZ. He also assists with the creation of visitor guides for communities such as Tucumcari, New Mexico, and the development of historic district walking tours. Jim is the creator of the Jim Hinckley’s America network that includes a website (jimhinckleysamerica.com/), social media, the weekly livestream "Coffee with Jim" program, a YouTube channel, and the "Wake Up with Jim" podcast. Linked with this are community education programs developed to foster an increased awareness of an area’s history and its role in the development of tourism as a component in economic development.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06XPRB6TS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Voyageur Press; Illustrated edition (May 1, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 72409 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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4.7 out of 5 stars
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Drew
5.0 out of 5 stars Travelers must have!
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2023
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Solid book. Well put together for a paperback. Included map's and directions. Big plus!
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Colleen
5.0 out of 5 stars Great color photos and the book itself was just as promised...very good condition
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2021
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Used this product to find the best places to explore old Ghost Towns. Good color photos and exact directions on how to get to each place.
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Jon L Albee
5.0 out of 5 stars Top quality, comprehensive guide to long lost mining towns
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2018
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This is a beautiful book with exhaustive coverage. What qualifies as a "ghost town" in this particular case isn't necessarily a town that is completely abandoned, but a town that has a small fraction of the population it once had at its peak. So in a strange way, Nevada City, CA counts as a ghost town, but Virginia City, NV does not. Each town includes a lovely essay which is really a walking tour of its landmarks and references to historic events. If there are businesses, such as lodgings, food, or shops, those are described too. All this is bound in beautiful heavy-stock full color paper. This is a lovely book for the practical traveler and the armchair tourist alike. This book is sure to satisfy your Wild West fantasies, but is also an accurate historical representation of the mining period it covers.
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Shannon
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great book!
Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2020
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A gift for my dad. I chose it because it is heavy duty, has great pictures and is really set up well for a wandering ghost town enthusiast 👍
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Pamela Wheeler
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2021
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Great book with lots of fun facts about each ghost town. Detailed maps on how to locate each town.
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Dov Ben Amram
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book on Ghost Towns
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2018
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One of the best books on ghost towns I have ever read. It has detailed location maps, good color pictures and interesting stories.
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The Frog
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2017
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Seems to be well written. He's also done the work to get info right. Easy to read & interesting. Will be headed west in a month or so, & plan on using it to find quite a few of the places. He gives directions at the end of each town description. Will update this in a few months.
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Rocco
3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was hoping for
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2020
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This is a nice book that is mostly about restored ghost towns that anyone can visit with a tourist mindset. I was hoping for a guide to true abandoned and ghostly relics from the days gone by of the American west, places that I wouldn’t otherwise be able to find. I know about a half-dozen such places in my home state that aren’t even mentioned in this book.

So, in summary, this is a nice book for folks looking to drive the minivan to a fixed-up ghost town and maybe even get to chat with one of the people who maintain the place. If you’re looking for rare and little-known haunts that require some effort to find, this is not the book for you.
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tracey
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2018
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yet to read it, but looks really good
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