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.


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


Gold Creeks and Ghost Towns

Gold Creeks and Ghost Towns

Author: Bill Barlee

Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780888394521

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This work presents a brief look at the six historic mining counties of NE Washington. Included within these counties are some of the most fascinating and historic areas on the old Pacific Slope. Okanogan County - This is the land of Kamiakin and Tonasket' famous Indian chiefs from another century, and those men of the early west like Okanogan Smith and Pinnacle Jim O'Connell. It is the largest and one of the most fascinating counties in the state. Here the footloose and curious may wander past long forgotten towns and abandoned townsites with colorful names like Ruby, Golden, and Bodie or range through the sweeping desert lands of up into the remote high country. There is much to hold the passerby; legends of hidden gold and long lost mines, several of them still searched for by close-mouthed treasure hunters and others intrigued by the age old quest for gold. And some of those historic towns of yesterday, places like Wauconda, Nighthawk and old Molson, still stand, silent monuments to the past and little changed in almost a hundred years. Walk through the brooding recesses of McLauhlin's Canyon and along the banks of rivers with lyrical Indian manes, and you still stalk the West of the 19th Century - and THAT'S Okanogan County.


Ghost Towns of the American West

Ghost Towns of the American West

Author: Raymond Bial

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2001-02-26

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 054756189X

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If it is abandoned by all or most of its inhabitants, a settlement becomes a ghost town. The buildings and dirt streets may remain, but the character and soul of the place change entirely. And so it was with mining camps, lumber camps, and cowboy towns scattered across America, particularly in the West: places with names like Gregory’s Diggings, Deadwood, Bodie, Calico, Goldfield, and Tombstone, some of the over 30,000 deserted towns in the United States. Why did people come to these isolated places? Why did they leave? As Raymond Bial’s narrative explores the history of our ghost towns, his well-composed photo-graphs silently tell their stories: of bustling, muddy streets, of large mercantile stores, and, ultimately, of short-lived dreams of gold, fertile land, or simply a good place to call home.


Gold 'N Ghosts!

Gold 'N Ghosts!

Author: Luis Vallecillo

Publisher:

Published: 2010-08-15

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780982848821

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They say "When you die you can't take your money with you". Therefore, be thankful for Ghost Towns! There are THOUSANDS of Ghost Towns across America, in fact Nevada has over 600 ghost towns and mining camps, many of which little remains but a few concrete slabs and crumbling rock walls and the state is pockmarked with over 500,000 old mines.This book is the most complete book of its kind, listing Ghost Towns not only by state, but actually giving you the GPS locations of each Ghost Town! Finding lost treasures has never been so easy. Just punch in the coordinates and head off to find your fortune in lost treasure.A ghost town is a completely abandoned town or city. A town often becomes a ghost because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as a flood, government action, uncontrolled lawlessness, or war. For example, most western ghost towns were once mining towns, builtduring the booms that began in California in 1849 and continued into the early twentieth centuryon the promise of profits to be realized from a region's abundant mineral deposits. As mineral strikes slowed, prospectors and those providing them their goods and services such as merchants, saloon owners, bankers, and prostitutes left homes and businesses. Most left, sometimes so abruptly that towns were often left in a state of suspended animation, with displays still standing in shop windows, bottles and glasses on saloon tables, and the shelves of abandoned cabins lined with pieces of crockery. Calamity and natural disaster created Ghost Towns as well. Thousands fled the area and thousands upon thousands, at times died never able retrieve their hidden fortunes. Now you have the information needed to find those caches, where ONE SINGLE coin could bring as much as $7.9 MILLION DOLLARS. For ONE SINGLE COIN!Luis Vallecillo, known on Television as "ORO" in the reality TV series TreasureForce, is TreasureForces' Mission Scientist and is also a Special Expedition Scout and Recon Scout. Not only is Oro a Certified Cacheologists by the Cacheology Society of America, but he is a pilot, engineer and explorer with tremendous expedition experience. Oro has proven to be the Mapping, Tracking and go-to Research source for the World's Foremost Terrestrial Treasure Team and Oro will now put this experience to work for you in teaching you how to spot the clues to find hidden hoards.


The Bonanza Trail

The Bonanza Trail

Author: Muriel Sibell Wolle

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 0253033284

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ElkhornBasin; Butte; Georgetown and Southern Cross; Granite; Gold Creek; Beartown; Garnet; 6. IDAHO: FROM BOISE BASIN TO THE COEUR D'ALENES; Spalding; Pierce (City) and Oro Fino; Elk City; Florence; Leesburg; Pioneerville; Idaho City; Centerville; Placerville; Boonville and Ruby City; Silver City; De Lamar; Dewey; Wallace; Gem; Burke; Eagle City; Murray; Kellogg and Wardner; 7. WASHINGTON: CHIEF MOSES HELD THE KEY; Fort Colvile; Colville; Kettle Falls, Daisy, and Marcus; Bossburg; Northport; Orient and Laurier; Republic; Okanogan City, Chopaka City; Oroville; Ruby; Conconully.


Ghost Towns of Route 66

Ghost Towns of Route 66

Author: Jim Hinckley

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA

Published: 2011-06-09

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1610602471

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Explore the mystery and beauty of historic ghost towns from Illinois to California with this gorgeously illustrated guide to America’s favorite highway. 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 twenty-five ghost towns, rich in stories and history, complemented by gorgeous sepia-tone and color photography by Kerrick James. Also includes directions and travel tips for your ghost-town explorations along Route 66.