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Black Hills Ghost Towns

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Watson Parker's book is a wonderful reference to use to understand the frenetic development of the Black Hills during its Gold Rush days. It also goes on to show the coming and going of little towns throughout the Black Hills. It is well organized and can easily lend itself to spending a day or more driving through the hills trying to find the remnants of the ghost towns. It is a book that I have gone back to year after year to learn about the Black Hills.

Love this book--even though it's 35 years old! But of course, due to current laws, and time, much of whats pictured is now gone or inaccesible.

The authors put a great deal of research into this treasure of old mining and logging history of the Black Hills of South Dakota. The book is an alphabetical listing of 600 towns; some still thriving but mostly ghost towns.

The book provides numerous photographs and locations for most of the towns. However, it was written before global positioning devices and does not have site coordinates.

All that have traveled the Mid-North West have found magic in the Black Hills, I believe because it truly exists there. I this book is captured the last 100 years of discovery, and what can still be found, for now. Protected as a National Treasure won't stop our Earth from doing her renovations. This is a guidebook, with much accurate work put into it, valuable to our time, but with a generation or two to be lost as memory and legend in the future.

This is a great book on the basically unknown ghost towns found in the beautiful Black Hills area. I am originally from the area and still learned quite a bit!