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Way off the beaten path, March 26, 2004
This review is from: Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps (Hardcover)
For anyone who loves the history and romance of the west, this is an outstanding book that will help you understand more about the where & when of boomtowns in the OLD & the NEW west. It was mining that drove development in the western United States not the cowboy. The products of Nevada's mines was what held together the North during the Civil War, and it helped to sustain development of the west and the United States after the war. Get lost with this book on a road trip through the dusty corners of Nevada! You will love it. A fairly exhaustive set of monographs on ghost towns in Nevada. Read the background material by Dan DeQuille, Mark Twain and others to get a bigger picture. Could make a great vacation theme with kids! Read them some of Twain's work! NO CELL PHONE OR SERVICE AT MANY SITES COME PREPPARED!
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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If you're serious about this stuff, buy the book., August 27, 1998
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This review is from: Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps (Hardcover)
This is it. The Gold Standard. After 28 years, nothing else out there comes close, not even his own Illustrated Atlas of same.
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The Bible on Nevada Ghost Towns, November 20, 2010
Before there was gambling, mining was the main attraction that brought people to Nevada. In the last half of the 19th century, and in the early years of the 20th century, dozens of Nevada communities popped up around gold and silver mines. With rare exception, when the ore played out, so did the towns. Today, ghost towns may be found in every part of the state.
If your library had room for only one book on the subject, this would be the one to own. Paher provides extensive histories for all these places, together with many photographs and directions to their locations. Whether you are an armchair explorer, or an amateur archeologist seeking ruins in the deepest, most inhospitable regions of the Nevada desert, you will find this book entertaining and useful. If you like it, look for Mr. Paher's other publications as well.
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