Greatest Colorado Ghost Town book published
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Since I moved to Colorado 30 years ago I began researching and visiting Colorado's Ghost Towns. I spent countless hours researching and reading old books published by others only to go to a site and find nothing. After discovering Kenneth's books, The Ghost Towns Colorado Style series, my frequent trips to visit and photograph a ghost town site have been much more enjoyable. By using the books I know where to go and what to expect when I get there. On top of that I get the added bonus of some history about the location, Kenneth's books have made my life more enjoyable and I suggest that anyone interested in Colorado's Ghost town should buy all of his books.

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Craig Johnson is a tremendously talented award winning writer from Wyoming who brings to life the surrounding geography and people of the Bighorn Basin. "Any other Name" is the book which spawned the TV series Longmire. Here you will find the beginning of the Walt Longmire story, his pal Henry Standing Bear, Ferg and the others. The edition I bought was the "Large Print" edition by Thorndyke press. The slightly larger print makes for a thicker book, but is especially nice for those people who's vision is starting to age a little. Excellent construction, solid hardback, a little more than 600 pages of Craig's extremely detailed prose. Well worth ever dime and you will enjoy every minute!
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I just bought this book in Tom Till's store front in Moab, UT.  I'm about 1/4 way through it.  It is actually a very interesting read, and Tom's photos are ridiculously perfect.  My husband and I had a little laugh over's Tom's creativity in finding an abandoned building in Jerome, AZ, where we had just visited the "Ghost Town" which contained more chicken feathers than ghosts.  Somehow Tom came up with a decent photo, even from there.
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Anyone who has traveled through Eastern Colorado knows what a desolate area this is.  It would take a master story teller to ever imagine an great story from this treeless, flat, desolate country.  Lee Child proves once again that he is just that, a master storyteller.
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I decided to try this book, as I seem to have almost every other book written about ghosts in the Chicagoland area.  What I most enjoyed about this book, is that John lives in Ohio.  So he was a visitor to our state, while researching stories for his book.  It was very well written, with pictures he provided.  I enjoyed his writing so much, that his book on Ohio ghosts is in my wish list and I purchased his recommendation on the Indiana ghosts.  I also appreciated that he contacted other ghost hunters and referenced them in his book.
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I really enjoyed reading this book. Jason Profit is a "Great" author. a lot of research went into this book. My wife's family is from Greenville and The cemetery Springwood is where several of her family are buried. If you like reading true ghost stories you will love this book. Also Jason Profit mentions about Ghost Tours. We plan on going and taking one of the tours offered. I recommend this book.
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I am a native Californian, although I have lived in Boston for many years.  One of the most intriguing parts of California for me has been visiting abandoned and restored pioneer towns in the Golden State.  About 70 miles from my first home in San Bernardino, is located an old mining town, Calico, in the middle of the Mojave desert.  That town has set my expectations for visiting pioneer towns.
For my 49th birthday, my father and wife arranged for me to have a 49er vacation that included attending a San Francisco 49er football game and then heading off into the gold country to revisit the sites where the great gold rush first began.
From knowing a lot about California history, I knew of many towns and sites that I wanted to see.  But along the way, I was intrigued by signs and notes about many sites that I had never heard about before.  I wished that I had had along a source as fine as Ghost Towns of Northern California.
Although his book will seem like a coffee table book to some, I found it to be an essential exploration guide.  More than 50 towns and sites are described and pictured.  Mr. Varney does a fine job of giving you the local history (which often includes how much gold was mined locally and how it was mined) while the photographs give you a sense of what there is to see.  You also get maps that can easily be used to find each of these locations.  Most are concentrated in the gold areas (such as near the Oregon border, near route 49, and in the high Sierras), but others have different backgrounds and locations such as Alcatraz and China Camp in the San Francisco Bay area.
The author defines a "ghost town" as being a town that has had a large slide in its permanent population, even if it is still populated.  So few of these "ghost towns" are uninhabited like Calico was when I was a youngster.
I double checked the accuracy of the information by comparing my experiences on my 49er vacation to what the book says, and the information and views tallied perfectly.  Nice job!
The photographs are more realistic than artistic.  That is not to say that they are not beautiful in many cases, but they give you a realistic view of what you will see rather than a "sunset at Sedona" feeling.
You probably won't want to visit all of these ghost towns, but the book will help you decide when and where you will want to visit.  I strongly urge you to decide to visit the sites that interest you and to use this valuable guide to help you plan and follow through on your plans.
I thought the book is an exceptional value.  I would have gladly paid more than twice the asking price for this great resource!
After you finish enjoying the photographs and text, spend some time rereading Mark Twain's stories about the gold camps.  It will help you get in the mood for planning a wonderful trip!
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Thoroughly enjoyed Helen Currie Foster's Ghost Cave and her second book, Ghost Dog.  She writes with such knowledge and love of the Texas hill country and it's people.  Her plots draw you in and she gently makes you care about her characters.  Both were really fun reads.
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What a fun book about the bizarre history of my home state! Audacious hoaxes, political power plays, bold outlaws, an ice palace at Leadville, Central City's submarine, Tesla's lightning laboratory  all quite informative and entertaining. I can't think of a better gift for anyone who calls Colorado home, or those who want more than the usual frontier mining stories.
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I love this piece of local historical fiction.  Although depressing, it brings to light some Colorado history that just doesn't make the standard US History text book.
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Great book. Had a hard time putting it down! As a former Colorado resident, I could easily imagine being back there, being in a small town and small mountain county. For a good read, read Cold Lake.
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Stuart has written an authentic novel about life and crime in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado in the 1880's. You come to really care about the characters. Some you really like and would love to go riding with. Others, well, you would just as soon see them shot. You can't guess the outcome, but it is credible. The plot weaves and turns in a creative way that carries you along. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who likes to read about the old West the way it really was.
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This is one of the best western books of all time. Well written, great character development, a little bit of everything. I really felt that I was there observing each scene play out. The end was predictable, but only because the story will play on in the next book, which I have already bought. If you enjoy stories of the old west, you will not be able to put this book down.
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Great book.  I was raised in western Colorado and made frequent trips to the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming.  These books are like returning home for me.  Joe Pickett is a real hero and I read all of the books that C.J. Box writes using Pickett as the principal character.
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This is an amazing book. I ordered this book because I love the paranormal and when I got it, it was a huge book with a large collection of stories and photos in it. It also has mountain legends in it. The book has photos to back up the stories. It has stories anyone would love to read. Anyone who gets this book would defiantly enjoy it. This makes me want to go to some of the places that are listed in the book and check it out. This book is defiantly a must read.
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This is a very well written book and I enjoyed it very much.  The author does a wonderful job of painting the Sasquatch legend in a small town in the Pacific Northwest.  I highly recommend this book.
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This is the companion book to the Chief Ouray story.
However, this book stands alone as a great read too.
If you're interested in life in the Colorado wild west from 1850 to 1900, you'll love this book.
Covers a lot of things I hadn't read elsewhere.
Also made me ill thinking about how wrong she was treated by "my ancestors".
I rode to Dragon, UT on my dirt bike after reading this, just to see for myself what the land was like that was "given" to the Indians after they were removed from the Grand Valley.
Wow... shockingly desolate!
This book will get you thinking that's for sure, as well as get you smiling at times.