Lost Ghost Towns of Teller County
Title | Lost Ghost Towns of Teller County PDF eBook |
Author | Jan MacKell Collins |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467135127 |
Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking for opportunity. As the ore disappeared, the miners moved on in search of the next big lode. One by one, the towns were all but forgotten. Join Jan MacKell Collins and discover the booming history, lost towns and hardy settlers of Teller County.
Good Time Girls of the Rocky Mountains
Title | Good Time Girls of the Rocky Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Jan MacKell Collins |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2020-02-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1493038087 |
Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, and pregnancy. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today.
Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest
Title | Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest PDF eBook |
Author | Jan MacKell Collins |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2020-02-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1493038109 |
Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, and pregnancy. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today.
Ghost Towns
Title | Ghost Towns PDF eBook |
Author | Clint Thomsen |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 2012-07-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1782001077 |
Tombstone, Bodie, St. Elmo, Silver City: these are some of the most famous of the Old West ghost towns and mining camps that dot America's landscape and provide hints to the country's history. But literally thousands more are scattered throughout the West, with some states boasting hundreds of abandoned boomtowns. Attracting thousands of visitors every year, many of these are protected by public and private parties alike, and visits are carefully regulated in order to preserve these valuable historical relics. Clint Thomsen describes various types of ghost town, explains their histories, and outlines ongoing research and archaeological study into decaying towns and mining camps.
Ghosts on a Sea of Grass
Title | Ghosts on a Sea of Grass PDF eBook |
Author | Donald C. Miller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Ghost Towns of the American West
Title | Ghost Towns of the American West PDF eBook |
Author | Bill O'Neal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Ghost towns |
ISBN |
Photographs of Ghost Towns.
Haunted Cripple Creek and Teller County
Title | Haunted Cripple Creek and Teller County PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Wommack |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467139602 |
Home to the last gold rush in America, Teller County attracted a slew of peculiar characters. And many never left. A Victor Hotel regular named Eddie met his untimely death when he tumbled down the elevator shaft. A female apparition clad in Victorian clothing appears on the stairs of the Palace Hotel. A closed tunnel on Gold Camp Road is said to echo with the sounds of screaming children. And lingering spirits are still prisoners at the old Teller County Jail. Linda Wommack uncovers the eerie thrills and chills of Cripple Creek and Teller County.