Nevada's Turbulent Yesterday. a Study in Ghost Towns.

346pp, index, bw ills. Or pictorial cloth with picture of desert scene matching jacket. Prev owner blindstamp on front free endpaper, further stamp at rear. Jacket edge worn with approx 1 inch missing from bottom of spine, taped at folds. The story of more than 1300 ghost towns in Nevada - the remnants of mining boomtowms, Mormon settlements and failed settlements. Some have disappeared completely back to the dust and sand- others are mere remnants- others hang on with a small remnant of their former glory. From Genoa and Gold Hill in the West; Pioche to Osceola on the eastern border; frozen Charleston and Mountain City in the extreme north and Eldorado and Callville in the southern tip and everywhere in between, the miners and the Mormons, gamblers and saloonkeepers, mistresses and ministers- all had their part in creating the now dead or dormant communities. Size: 8vo.