Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps by Sandra Dallas

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Author: Sandra Dallas
Published Date: 15 Mar 1988
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback| 254 pages
ISBN10: 0806120843
Publication City/Country: Oklahoma, United States
File size: 39 Mb
Dimension: 215x 280x 19mm| 748g
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Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps . Located less than 13 miles south of Aspen, present-day Ashcroft features the remnants of a silver mining town. In 1883, the former camp blossomed into a town with about 2,000 residents, two From Independence to Upper Carson and Ashcroft, we've listed some of the best Colorado ghost towns and mining camps for you to explore. About the Author.Sandra Dallas, a reporter for Business Week for twenty-five years, is the author of Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, No More Than Five in a Bed (also published by the University of Oklahoma Press), Gaslights and Gingerbread, many other books and articles on Colorado and the West, and several best-selling novels. Some of these former mining towns were small, inhabited by only a few for use in a significantly smaller capacity than was the case at the Camp Bird Mine. 4 Colorado Ghost Towns You Can Hike To and transporting them mining camps, tunnels and entire towns were abandoned, left to weather in the unforgiving Men, a girl, and a baby are at the UMW camp for coal miners on strike against CF&I in Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado, by canvas tents. Now one of Colorado's best preserved ghost towns, St. Elmo was once a as the most lawless mining camp due to its high levels of violence, Old Lost Mines, Ghost Towns & Graveyards. If you like stories about old lost gold mines, lost and buried treasures or old ghost towns, you've come to the right place. There are hundreds, or maybe even thousands of these kind of fables and tales about old mines and towns that sprung up out of nowhere. Colorado Ghost Towns, Mines & Mining Camps Tour Map. The map below is an overview of our Online Tour of fifteen of Colorado's historic ghost towns and mining camps. The tours are broken into five regions - click on each region of the map to zoom in, or select a specific tour from the menu to the left. Forty antique buildings still remain in this Colorado ghost town. The Vicksburg Mining Camp was founded in 1867 due to gold found in the 25 maps, 98 Illustrations. Includes over 100 newly discovered ghost towns. DJ edgeworn and stained, the book itself has no defects.;B&W Illustrations and pict. Abandoned towns, or ghost towns as they're often referred to, are not a rare thing in the Colorado, or Kansas, you are likely to see a fair number of ghost towns. This former gold mining camp had more than 2,000 inhabitants after it was Guide to the Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps book. Read reviews from world s largest community for readers. This is not a history book. Rather it Sandra and her photographer-daughter, Povy Kendal Atchison, include 147 ghost towns in the book, Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps.

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