Montana Mining Ghost Towns [Hardcover]

Barbara Fifer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2002

The Rolands, from Missoula, have spent two decades locating and photographing ghost towns that arose during Montana’s gold and silver rushes of the 19th century.

Here, 250 of their color images are collected, along with intriguing historical photographs of the towns’ heydays.

Fifer's text tells about life in the towns, prospectors, outlaws, vigilantes, town characters, corporate shenanigans, and more. Colorful newspaper excerpts let the camps speak for themselves. Index.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Farcountry Press; First Edition edition (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560371951
• ISBN-13: 978-1560371953
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 10.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,075,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Barbara Fifer is Ohio-born, but an adoptive Montanan who has lived two-thirds of her life in Helena, Montana. She has edited a scholarly historical journal, catalogs for a library-book jobber, a zillion magazine articles, and (for 18 years) a few hundred books for Farcountry Press. Since 2003 she has freelanced as an author, editor, book producer, text designer, and indexer. Her commercially-published books of popular history all seek to bring past people and events to life again.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars nice coffee table book, January 10, 2010

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B. Pascucci "hiking yellowstone" (Montana, USA) - See all my reviews
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Nice book for it's included ghost towns and photos, but not what you are looking for if you want to discover ghost towns less publicized. I'd consider it a coffee table book. The photos are small but artistic and engrossing.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great stories, January 6, 2009

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Linda Boyd - See all my reviews
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This is a nice book with some awesome photos and great stories. The only problem that I have with it is Amazon sent it in a large box with another book and no packaging. The cover was torn. Very disappointing!