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Ghost towns of the American West
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With a historian's attention to fact and a novelist's gift for dramatic storytelling, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg brings these adventures back to life in the rowdy splendor ...
With a historian's attention to fact and a novelist's gift for dramatic storytelling, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg brings these adventures back to life in the rowdy splendor of their heyday in Ghost Towns of the American West.
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- Creator
- Robert Silverberg ; illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- 1st Ohio University paperback ed
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [1968]
- ©1968
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (319 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780821441091, 0821441094, 9780821410820
- OCLC
- on1295277343
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Originally published: New York : Crowell, [1968].
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- One: Golden Ghosts -- Two: The California Gold Rush -- Three: California Mining Camps -- Four: Ghost Towns of California -- Five: The Boom Moves Inland -- Six: Phantom Cities of the Nevada Desert -- Seven: On to the Rockies -- Eight: The Prospectors Head North -- Nine: Montana's Lawless Camps -- Ten: Ghost Towns of the Southwest -- Eleven: The Last Ghost Towns -- Bibliography -- Index