Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Author: Sandra Dallas

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780806120843

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Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom


Colorado Ghost Towns

Colorado Ghost Towns

Author: Robert L. Brown

Publisher: Caxton Press

Published: 1972-07

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780870045301

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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.


Colorado's Best Ghost Towns

Colorado's Best Ghost Towns

Author: Kenneth Christian Jessen

Publisher:

Published: 2011-06-28

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781928656098

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"From old mining camps high in the Rockies to Mesa Verde in the south to homestead villages in the east, Kenneth Jessen presents the top 105 ghost towns of Colorado, selected from his 40-plus years of exploring over 1,600 ghost towns throughout the state. Each ghost town comes to life through color photos and a brief history; complete with descriptive directions and map coordinates"--P. [4] of cover.


Powder Ghost Towns

Powder Ghost Towns

Author: Peter Bronski

Publisher: Wilderness Press

Published: 2013-03-04

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0899975186

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In its heyday, Colorado had more than 175 ski areas operating on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains, and while many of those resorts have shut down, their runs still shelter secret stashes of snow. Pristine slopes await backcountry powder hounds out to discover these chutes and steeps, bunny hills and bumps. Chronicling the history of more than 36 of these "lost resorts," Powder Ghost Towns provides the beta for how to ski and board these classic runs today, with comprehensive information on trailheads, where to skin up, and the best descents. Coverage ranges from southern Wyoming's Medicine Bow Mountains to the Colorado-New Mexico border, including famous old resorts like Hidden Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park.


Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition

Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition

Author: Kevin Singel

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05-26

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9781719553469

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Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.


Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns

Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns

Author: Robert L. Brown

Publisher: Caxton Press

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780870040214

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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Settle into your four-wheel-drive vehicle or a chair and take off for the mining camps of Colorado! This book is an illustrated history of fifty-nine towns famous during the gold and silver rushes of the 1800s, with directions on how to get to each.


Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies

Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies

Author: Robert L. Brown

Publisher: Caxton Press

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780870043420

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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This book features information and travel directions for sixty of Colorado's ghost towns and mining camps. There is an informal history of each town, along with early and contemporary photographs to aid in site identification.


Ghost Towns of Colorado

Ghost Towns of Colorado

Author: Philip Varney

Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780896584181

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Get ready for adventure as Philip Varney and John Drew take you on a tour of Colorado’s most fascinating historic mining camps and ghost towns. Ghost Towns of Colorado provides comprehensive information on more than 90 towns and sites from Cripple Creek to Leadville; from Silverton to Georgetown and Crested Butte to help you discover this engaging region for yourself. If you’re an armchair visitor, you’ll appreciate the rich color photos and descriptive text that bring the region to life; if you’re an actual visitor you’ll appreciate the directions and the many maps that make traveling the area a breeze. Chapters are arranged geographically by regions, and Varney provides precise directions and mileage to sites, plus information on what roads can be reached via car, truck, or 4-wheel drive. Philip Varney is also the author of Ghost Towns of Northern California. He has written books on ghost towns in Arizona and in Southern California. Photographer John Drew, along with his wife Susan, teamed up with Varney for Ghost Towns of Northern California. He has photographed ghost towns throughout the West.


Abandoned Northern Colorado

Abandoned Northern Colorado

Author: Jeff D. Eberle

Publisher: America Through Time

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781634992282

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"Covered in this book are the areas of Colorado north of the Arkansas River and east of the Rocky Mountains. Inside you will find images of the ghost towns, dormant grain elevators, forgotten cemeteries, and abandoned homesteads of Colorado's prairie."--from back cover.


Colorado Traveler - Colorado Ghost Towns

Colorado Traveler - Colorado Ghost Towns

Author: Carolyn Bauer

Publisher: American Traveler Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781558380677

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As you travel the state, read about the life and times of people from years past. An excellent map in the centrefold, and driving directions on each page make it easy to find the ghost towns, some now abandoned and others alive with new "pioneers".