Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures [Paperback]

George A. Thompson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2006

New edition of George Thompson's classic work on Utah ghost towns and lost treasure. Over 400 Utah ghost towns are covered and hundreds more lost treasure tales are told. Illustrated with 120 historical photographs and a dozen maps. Each chapter is arranged geographically for each section of the state and includes a general locator map. Some Dreams Die has been regularly selling online for $100 a copy and up! This is your chance to order an affordable edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 194 pages
• Publisher: Dream Garden Press; 1st edition (January 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942688015
• ISBN-13: 978-0942688016
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #631,774 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Utah Ghost Town Classic, June 17, 2001

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Dave Soutter (Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures (Paperback)

This book is the Classic Ghost Town guide for Utah. Although Thompson leaves many questions unanswered, and probably takes a few liberties in weaving his yarns of lost riches, the stories of the characters and places which comprise the rich history of long forgotten ghost towns, mining camps and outposts in Utah's mountains and deserts makes for fascinating reading.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I finally got why they call it a "Ghost Town.", February 23, 2007

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This review is from: Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures (Paperback)

When my father was alive we went out West of the Great Salt Lake and we drove all the roads up through Lucin clear till Promontory Point. It is a wonderful experience to go out to an area that looks desolate but is so rich in history and culture. This book was our main resource while we were out there. It is a most perfect tour guide. From it we got a pretty good idea from where these towns were and what to do. We would look and see the picture of this prospering town of 10,000 and then we would look out on the desert and just 100 years later there was nothing there except mabye an old foundation or part of a building or an amazingly well built bridge. It does kind of play tricks on you. You start almost seeing the towns and the people. They become real to you like a "Ghost Town." To give you an idea, if you've ever been to Wendover, just south of Lucin, it has about 6000 people last time I checked. This will give you an idea of how big some of these towns actually were.This was a great memory of my father and I and I will always cherish it as we went through all these old towns together. I'm giving this four stars as a revenge because I can't justify paying this much money for paper and it sticks in my stomach like a knife that I can't buy this book. There are certain books that you read and you are not the same after you've read them. This book was definately that for me.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Years of research had to go into this book Mostly accurate, December 21, 1997

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This review is from: Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures (Paperback)

Very few mistakes on history and location. I have read this book several times and been to maybe 75% of the areas and storys. very good