Entrée principale:

Eberhart, Perry.

Titre et auteur:

Ghosts of the Colorado plains / Perry Eberhart.

Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, ©1986.

Description:

253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 237) and indexes.
This old town [poem] -- Preface -- The first ghost towns -- Historic stage stations -- By the side of the road -- Farm centers: big cities of the plains -- Colorado kingdoms -- Trail towns -- Colony towns -- The towns before -- Con towns -- Iron horse murders -- Drowned towns -- Tragedy towns -- Mining the plains: "They'll mine anywhere" -- Multi talent towns -- Playgrounds on the plains -- Sin suburbs -- Unique towns -- Very special places -- Trouble in Serene.
Illustrations: Stage station / Frederic Remington -- "Black Jack" Slade -- Virginia Dale Stage Station -- Alexander "Zin" Hicklin -- Hicklin House in Greenhorn -- Mariano Modena [ Medina ] -- "Uncle Dick" Wootton with Jesus Silva -- Wootton homes -- The Battle of Beecher Island / Robert Lindeux -- Toonerville -- "The [ I. P., Print ] Olive gang" -- Colony towns: McCaslin cabin; "The Crossings" and the largest cottonwood tree; Ryssby church -- Con towns: promotions for Colorado Farming; Schramm and Schramm marker -- Tragedy towns: John Lawson and Mother Jones; Tent city at Ludlow; The militia, National Guard, and Red Cross at Ludlow; Ludlow marker and "the Black Hole"; U. S. Cavalry en route to Ludlow -- Murat Cabin -- Hafen drawing of the Old Spanish Fort -- Pavilion at Eldorado Springs and 1938 flood -- Relocation center at Amache; Amache [ Nisei ] volunteers [ for World War II ] memorial marker ; Cherry Tree Orphanage at Amity; Oliver Jackson; Dearfield -- Julesburg, 1865 -- Serene; Josephine Roche.

ISBN:

0804008329
9780804008327
0804008337 (pbk.)
9780804008334 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Ghost towns Colorado History.
City and town life Colorado History.
Villes fantômes Colorado Histoire.
Vie urbaine Colorado Histoire.
City and town life.
Ghost towns.
Ghost towns Colorado.
Colorado History, Local.
Colorado Histoire locale.
Colorado.
United States, Colorado History.

Classification/genre:

Nonfiction.
History.
Local history.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 22477
Cote: ID:87-B9396
Statut: Disponible