Ghost Towns of Oklahoma - Softcover

Morris, John W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806114207 ISBN 13: 9780806114200

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978

Synopsis

In the past 150 years as many as two thousand Oklahoma hamlets, villages, towns, and even cities have bloomed and then died. Some have faded away, with not even a fallen chimney to mark their location. Others have left ghostly marks of their past--mounds of rubble grown over with grass or crumbling walls of buildings. A few still cling tenaciously to life, with a few inhibitants left to call them home.

In these pages John W. Morris tells about 130 of the towns. He describes how and why each was established, the activities of its people in its heyday, and the conditions that cuased it to fade away. Of course, to tell about the towns is also to tell about the people who built them and lived in them--and once had high hopes for their success.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0806114207
• ISBN 13: 9780806114200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240