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Shaniko: From wool capital to ghost town

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Shaniko: From Wool Capital To Ghost Town by Helen Guyton Rees is a captivating capsule history of the little town of Shaniko, Oregon. It had its humble origins as a tent city in the early 1900s because of its location at the end of a railroad line. The community of Shaniko went on to become a great center for the wool trade, and petered out in the post World War II era -- until it was dubbed a Ghost Town in 1959. Yet a lively remembrance of the town's local roots continue to make Shaniko an enjoyable tourist destination, and this deftly written account presents an intrinsically fascinating history of an American community enhanced with more than hundred rare and historic black-and-white photographs drawn from the last century.