Download or read book Black Hills Ghost Towns written by Watson Parker and published by . This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Hills have been famous ever since the gold rush days of the 1870s. This book takes a look at the remains of those ghosts: the camps, the stage stops, the communities, the people who made the Black Hills famous. The book details 600 towns and includes many historical and contemporary photos. Also included are maps and tips on how to locate the ruins of those ghost towns.
Download or read book Ghost Towns and Other Historical Sites of the Black Hills written by Bruce A. Raisch and published by Donning Company Pub. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insiders Guide to South Dakota s Black Hills Badlands written by T. D. Griffith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Travel Destination. Your Home. Your Home-To-Be. South Dakota’s Black Hills & Badlands Ghost towns and modern towns. Trendy eateries and rustic bars. Cowboys and artists. Rodeos, skiing, hiking, and biking. Breathtaking landscapes in a place of welcoming smiles. • A personal, practical perspective for travelers and residents alike • Comprehensive listings of attractions, restaurants, and accommodations • How to live & thrive in the area—from recreation to relocation • Countless details on shopping, arts & entertainment, and children’s activities
Download or read book Deadwood written by Watson Parker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles Deadwood, South Dakota, a typical American frontier and gold rush town, especially the volatile years 1875-1925.
Download or read book Black Hills Gold Rush Towns Volume II written by Jan Cerney and Roberta Sago and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising out of the prairie, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming had long been rumored to have promising quantities of gold. Sacred to the Lakota, the Black Hills was part of the land reserved for them in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. However, the tide of prospectors seeking their fortune in the Black Hills was difficult to stem. Members of the 1874 Custer expedition, lead by Gen. George Armstrong Custer, found gold. In 1875, scientists Henry Newton and Walter Jenney conducted an expedition and confirmed the rumors. By 1876, the trickle of prospectors and settlers coming to the Black Hills was a flood. The US government realized that keeping the interlopers out was impossible, and in 1877 the Black Hills was officially opened to settlement. In this sequel to their Black Hills Gold Rush Towns book, the authors expand their coverage of Black Hills towns during the gold-rush era.
Download or read book Gold in the Black Hills written by Watson Parker and published by SDSHS Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Hills Ghost Towns written by Watson Parker and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Civilian Conservation Corps written by Peggy Sanders and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civilian Conservation Corps was established on March 31, 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of his efforts to pull the country out of the Great Depression. The program lasted until July 2 1942, successfully creating work for a half-million unemployed young men across the nation. They were housed, fed, clothed, and taught trade skills while working in forests, parks, and range lands. Paid one dollar a day, each man was required to send home $25 a month; the program provided work for young men as well as support to thousands of families. South Dakota was home to more than 50 camps over the nine-year time span with projects in areas ranging from constructing bridges and buildings in state parks, thinning trees in national forests to mining rock, crushing it into gravel, and graveling roads. Although this volume is set in South Dakota, the photos are representative of camps and men from all over the nation who served in the CCCs.
Download or read book Black Hills written by Dan Simmons and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters him - and his voice will speak to him for the rest of his event-filled life. Seamlessly weaving together the stories of Paha Sapa, Custer, and the American West, Dan Simmons depicts a tumultuous time in the history of both Native and white Americans. Haunted by Custer's ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa's long life is driven by a dramatic vision he experienced as a boy in his people's sacred Black Hills. In August of 1936, a dynamite worker on the massive Mount Rushmore project, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people's legacy-on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the face.
Download or read book Black Hills Ghost Towns written by Watson Parker and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Savior of Deadwood written by David A. Wolff and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Given that his contemporaries hailed businessman James K. P. Miller as "the foremost citizen of Deadwood" and stated that his "name will always be coupled with the prosperity of Deadwood and the Black Hills," it would seem that he should be as well remembered as Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock, Harris Franklin, and W. E. Adams. Yet, few in Deadwood or elsewhere have ever heard of James K. P. Miller. Dime novels did not make him a Western legend, as they did Wild Bill and Calamity Jane. No buildings carry his name, unlike Bullock and Franklin who have hotels named after them and Adams who has a museum and historic house. Similarly, Miller did not gain fame by dealing with outlaws, like Bullock, by making a fortune, like Franklin, or through philanthropy, like Adams. Miller is not even buried in Deadwood. Though time has erased most evidence of Miller's activities, he refused to let the gold camp wither away when its fortunes faded in the 1880s. By advancing several large projects, persuading outside investors to join him, and convincing railroads to build in, Miller became the town's preeminent promoter and developer. These actions brought a permanency that had never existed before. To some residents, Miller was the "savior of Deadwood.""--
Download or read book The Hansen Clan written by Bjarne Borresen and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stagecoach carrying a fortune in gold was held up at gunpoint south of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876. The mastermind of the crime made off with more than $1 million then quickly disappeared like smoke in the wind. The gold has never been found. The Hansen kids, while vacationing in South Dakota, stumble across a cave and some artifacts that might lead them to discover the truth about this mystery and recover a fortune in lost gold. But what they encounter during their quest is far more than a simple treasure hunt. They find themselves in a desperate struggle with modern-day armed bandits that threaten the lives of the children and their parents! It is up to Hannah, TJ, Noah, and Eli to save their parents and bring the bandits to justice.
Download or read book More Ghost Towns of Texas written by T. Lindsay Baker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Ghost Towns of Texas provides readers with histories, maps, and detailed directions to the most interesting ghost towns in Texas not already covered in the first volume. Reprint.
Download or read book Ghost Towns of the Northwest written by Norm Weis and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Travel through the ghost-town country of the Pacific Northwest, guided by the camera and pen of Norman D. Weis. Both well-known and obscure towns, with intriguing names such as Comeback Mine Camp, Electric, Ruby, Greenback, Disautel, and Old Todora entice you to explore their secrets.
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Kansas written by Daniel Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated guide to Kansas ghost towns will delight travelers and armchair tourists alike. Organized by region, it tells the story of 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only 'a shadowy remnant of what they once were.'
Download or read book Pioneer Days in the Black Hills written by John S. McClintock and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer announced that he had found gold "among the roots of the grass." Almost overnight a number of settlements sprang into existence. Among them was Deadwood. In April 1876, John S. McClintock arrived in search of gold. Entering a series of speculations and employments that won him moderate prosperity, he made Deadwood his home. During his later years, he wrote his memoirs, presented here for the first time in half a century.
Download or read book Ghost Towns of the West written by Kyle Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ghost Towns of the West' showcases twenty-one ghost towns across the historic western United States of America. From the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to the Deserts of Arizona and the Peaks of Death Valley in California, photographs reveal abandoned spaces that were once thriving metropolises of the Gold Rush. Ghost Towns:South DakotaDeadwoodColoradoCentral CityNevadavilleGeorgetownSouth Park CityNew MexicoLos CerrillosArizonaTombstoneGoldfieldJeromeOatmanChlorideUtahGraftonNevadaRhyoliteCaliforniaHarrisburgBallaratKeelerRandsburgCalicoIvanpahCimaKelsoTravel with Love, Kyle HansonThis was my 39th Book of Photography.
