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1) Wild West
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What is a ghost town? Why do we call the Old West wild? What are cowboys? Who was Billy the Kid? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about the American West.
Jack and Annie learn more about the Wild West, including what a ghost town is, who Billy the Kid is, and why we call the Old West wild.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caleb York has a tin star, a blazing gun, and plenty of courage. All he needs is a little luck to deliver big justice ... On a lively night at the Victory saloon in Trinidad, New Mexico, Sheriff Caleb York interrupts his poker game to settle a minor dust-up that raises the stakes into major trouble. The wounded miscreant he ushers to the hoosegow spills the secret behind the mysterious disappearance of a certain stage coach. Bound for Denver, the...
Author
Publisher
Voyageur Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Ghost towns lie all along the Mother Road. The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boom towns built around oil wells, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than 25 ghost towns, rich in stories and history, complemented by gorgeous sepia-tone and color photography by Kerrick James. Also includes directions...
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: America's scenic drives: From Maine to Key West - Cruise down the most scenic routes of the Eastern Seaboard, driving along Maine's rocky coast, stopping at mighty Niagara Falls, taking the back roads through Vermont, following the misty Blue Ridge Parkway into Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and bridging the blue-green waters around the Florida Keys. Disc 2: America's scenic drives: From Texas to Yellowstone - See the beautiful, ever-changing...
Author
Publisher
Voyageur Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than 60 ghost towns along the Mother Road, rich in stories and history!
The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boomtowns built around oil mines, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Illustrated with gorgeous sepia-tone and color photography by Kerrick James, this book tours dozens of ghost towns...
Author
Publisher
J. Messner
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
Description
Brings to life the once-busy and prosperous towns of Tuscarora, Nevada, South Pass City, Wyoming, Winter Quarters, Utah, Antelope, Oregon, and Allensworth, California, whose singular reasons for growth were the very reasons for their deaths.
17) Ghost towns
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Publications
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Examines the ghost towns scattered across America, discussing their decline and current status.
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