Ghost Town II

Ghost Town II
Author: Richard Brent Reed
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2024-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Ghost Town II: Boot Hill and Beyond is a collection of short stories that includes “Christina’s Samplers,” “Hornbook II,” “Number 131,” “Spirits of Petroleum,” “Tapping the Admiral,” “The Didgeri Dude,” “The Dust Devil,” “The Hornbook,” “Medicine Wheel,” “The Obsidian Mirror,” “The Ophir Bonanza,” “The Singing Cowboy,” “The Water Witch,” “Valentine,” and “Veritas.” The stories are a bit of a cross between “Gunsmoke” and “The Twilight Zone.” American history is full of quirky events that lend themselves to the imaginative story telling in this thoughtful and entertaining collection. These stories provide those interested in the strange and inexplicable with literary retellings of American history through spooky stories about the Old West. About the Author Richard Brent Reed was born in Houston, Texas in 1951. He currently resides in Riverside, California. Reed was a history teacher for several years. He also ran a traveling theatre group and had his own law practice. He has been very involved with the Riverside Dickens Festival and is also a member of a Masonic lodge. His interests include gardening, geology, history, and politics.

Lost in Michigan

Lost in Michigan
Author: Mike Sonnenberg
Publisher: Huron Photo
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2017-10-15
Genre: Curiosities and wonders
ISBN: 9780999433201

Based on the popular Lost In Michigan website that was featured in the Detroit Free Press, It contains locations throughout Michigan, and tells their interesting story. There are over 50 stories and locations that you will find fascinating.

Southern California's Best Ghost Towns

Southern California's Best Ghost Towns
Author: Philip Varney
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1994-03-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780806126081

The ghost towns of Southern California-some dramatic and nearly intact, others devastated-are well worth visiting. Most are remnants of once-colorful mining towns, though there are also railroad towns, a World War II relocation center, a promoter's swindle, and a failed socialist colony. Some excellent attractions remain. One of the best-preserved stamp mills in the West is in Skidoo. Smelters, homes, stores, and the remarkable wooden American Hotel can be found in Cerro Gordo, which the author calls "California's best true ghost town." Seasoned back-roads traveler Philip Varney, who has visited nearly a hundred ghost towns in the area, provides a down-to-earth and helpful guide to more than sixty of the best in Southern California and nearby Inyo and Kern counties. He defines a ghost town as a town with a population markedly decreased from its peak, one whose initial reason for settlement no longer keeps people there. It can be completely deserted, have a resident or two, or retain genuine signs of vitality, but Varney has eliminated those towns he considers either too populated or too empty of significant remains. The sites are grouped in four chapters in Inyo County, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and Kern River, and the regions surrounding Los Angeles and San Diego. Each chapter provides a map of the region, a ranking of sites as "major," "secondary," and "minor," information on road conditions, trip suggestions, and tips on the use of particular topographic maps for readers interested in more detailed exploration. Each entry includes directions to a town, a brief history of that town, and notes on its special points of interest. Current photographs provide a valuable record of the sometimes fragile sites. Southern California's Best Ghost Towns will be welcomed both by those who enjoy traveling off the beaten path and by those who enjoy the history of the American West.

Blakeburn-British Columbia's Forgotten Ghost Town-Revised Second Edition

Blakeburn-British Columbia's Forgotten Ghost Town-Revised Second Edition
Author: Terry Malanchuk
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2008-12-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0557030951

B.C.'s largest remaining, unspoiled historic site is no longer forgotten. Covering 12 square miles atop Mount Lodestone, over 250 structures still exist. Finally, Blakeburn has been revealed for the jewel that it was. The first ever comprehensive map and travel guide has now been assembled. Together with the people's stories and detailed site discriptions, new life has come to Blakeburn, B.C.

Bridge of Souls (City of Ghosts #3)

Bridge of Souls (City of Ghosts #3)
Author: Victoria Schwab
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338574884

Victoria ("V. E.") Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, invites readers to haunted New Orleans in this third installment of her thrillingly spooky City of Ghosts series! Where there are ghosts, Cassidy Blake follows . . .Unless it's the other way around?Cass thinks she might have this ghost-hunting thing down. After all, she and her ghost best friend, Jacob, have survived two haunted cities while traveling for her parents' TV show.But nothing can prepare Cass for New Orleans, which wears all of its hauntings on its sleeve. In a city of ghost tours and tombs, raucous music and all kinds of magic, Cass could get lost in all the colorful, grisly local legends. And the city's biggest surprise is a foe Cass never expected to face: a servant of Death itself.

Abandoned New Mexico

Abandoned New Mexico
Author: John M. Mulhouse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781634992343

Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History encompasses huge swathes of time and space. As rural populations decline and young people move to ever-larger cities, much of our past is left behind. Out on the plains or along now-quiet highways, changes in modes of livelihood and transportation have moved only in one direction. Stately homes and hand-built schools, churches and bars--these are not just the stuff of individual lives, but of an entire culture. New Mexico, among the least-dense states in the country, was crossed by both the Spanish and Route 66; the railroad stretched toward every hopeful mine and outlaws died in its arms. Its pueblos are among the oldest human habitations in the U.S., and the first atomic bomb was detonated nearly dead in its center. John Mulhouse spent almost a decade documenting the forgotten corners of a state like no other through his popular City of Dust project. From the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert to the snow-capped Moreno Valley, travel through John's words and pictures across the legendary Land of Enchantment.--Back cover.

Colorado Ghost Towns

Colorado Ghost Towns
Author: Robert L. Brown
Publisher: Caxton Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1972-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780870045301

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This is the third in Robert Brown's series of picturesque guidebooks to another era. In text and photographs he has captured the sense of the historic as well as the nostalgic of a new selection of ghost towns and mining camps that dot the back country byways and high mountain valleys of Colorado.

Haunted Southern Nevada Ghost Towns

Haunted Southern Nevada Ghost Towns
Author: Heather Leigh
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2022-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439675694

Discover what life was like in the heyday of the abandoned mines that dot the Nevada landscape, now host to the spirits of those who lost their lives in pursuit of gold, silver, and salt. Step into the Silver State's past, where the echoes of once-thriving boomtowns and mining operations reverberate through the desert to this day. Explore the remnants of a drowned town exposed by the receding waters of Lake Mead, and an abandoned pet cemetery sure to send chills down your spine. The bones of prehistoric creatures lie beside the former residents of Berlin, and in Goodsprings, reports of ghostly celebrity sightings stir up excitement. Join author Heather Leigh on a journey through the eerie history of Nevada's ghost towns.

Ghost Town: Spooky Stories of the Old West

Ghost Town: Spooky Stories of the Old West
Author: Richard Brent Reed
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2023-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

About the Book The Old West has intrigued the imaginations of many over the years, drawing people in with the mystery and wonders of the wilderness, gun fights, and stories of heroes and villains. But there is more than meets the eye to the Old West: there is a wild magic that lives within the bones that make up the land. Ghost Town: Spooky Stories of the Old West takes the supernatural and places it into the heart of the Western. With tales of ghost towns, spells, mysterious and mystical women, and everything in between, the genre of the Supernatural Western is born. About the Author Richard Brent Reed has been a teacher and attorney with experience in acting, directing, and writing for the stage. He enjoys music, geology, history, horticulture, natural history, and paleontology.

Ghost Towns of Oklahoma

Ghost Towns of Oklahoma
Author: John Wesley Morris
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1977
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806114200

Lists 130 ghost towns in alphabetical order and includes descriptions of each.