Ghost Towns of the American West
por Bial, Raymond
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- Bom
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- ISBN 10
- 0618065571
- ISBN 13
- 9780618065578
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Newport Coast, California, United States
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If it is abandoned by all or most of its inhabitants, a settlement becomes a ghost town. The buildings and dirt streets may remain, but the character and soul of the place change entirely. And so it was with mining camps, lumber camps, and cowboy towns scattered across America, particularly in the West: places with names like Gregory’s Diggings, Deadwood, Bodie, Calico, Goldfield, and Tombstone, some of the over 30,000 deserted towns in the United States. Why did people come to these isolated places? Why did they leave? As Raymond Bial’s narrative explores the history of our ghost towns, his well-composed photo-graphs silently tell their stories: of bustling, muddy streets, of large mercantile stores, and, ultimately, of short-lived dreams of gold, fertile land, or simply a good place to call home.
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- Livreiro
- Bonita (US)
- Estoque do vendedor nº
- 0618065571.G
- Título
- Ghost Towns of the American West
- Autor
- Bial, Raymond
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Bom
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0618065571
- ISBN 13
- 9780618065578
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Local de publicação
- Boston, Ma
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- 2001-02-26