Paperback The Mining Camps Speak: A New Way to Explore the Ghost Towns of the American West Book

ISBN: 0964582414

ISBN13: 9780964582415

The Mining Camps Speak: A New Way to Explore the Ghost Towns of the American West

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The Mining Camps Speak is for people who have visited ghost town sites in the past and were disappointed because there was "nothing left." Here is a new way to explore these mysterious sites, even if all that's left is rubble. The techniques are valid in any western state, even Alaska. It begins where other ghost town guidebooks end. It is the first book to guide readers around a site in Sherlock Holmes fashion. Using the techniques of a historical sleuth, you will learn to identify forgotten pieces of the past. You will see for yourself the lives that passed this way and you will hear The Mining Camps Speak. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photographs and antique engravings. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0964582414

ISBN13:9780964582415

Release Date:July 1998

Publisher:Benchmark Publishing (CO)

Length:283 Pages

Weight:1.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"

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Rated 5 stars
Mining Camps Speak

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 1, 2009

This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn about old mining towns and what you can find when you visited them. I have a much better understanding of what to look for when I see old structures and now I might even be able to figure out what they once were! Great book and a fun read!

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Rated 4 stars
very informative

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 30, 2009

This is an invaluable resource when hiking old mining camps in the San Juan mountians.

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Rated 5 stars
Buy it now!

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 22, 2000

I have used this book with great success in my Colorado history classes and I recommend it to anyone with an interest in mining history and the Rocky Mountain West. Other books tell you where the "ghost towns" are located, but this book is unique in helping you understand what you are seeing when you get there. Their chapter on tin can dating alone is worth the price of the book. The research here is incredible and the...

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Rated 5 stars
Fascinating!

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 21, 2000

This is a fabulous book which should appeal to anyone who spends any time in the back-country of the American West. You know those tumble-down buildings and random bits of rusted iron you occasionally encounter? Turns out they're not the junky nuisance you thought. This book, which is a fascinating read, will enable you to appreciate how folks 100 years ago were living in the very places you're exploring by showing you...

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