Welcome! We have a variety of books primarily pertaining to mining camps and abandoned towns throughout the West. Learn about mining rushes, transportation (roads, railroads, stagecoaches, early autos), and other factors that caused towns to spring up in specific locations. Find out what life was really like for the residents of these towns as they boomed and then slowly faded into ghost towns. Local newspapers covered gunfights, fires, mining disasters, blizzards, and mining frauds as well as the social activities that created a sense of community.

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The Transportation Frontier, Tran-Mississippi West 1865-1890, by Oscar Osburn Winther. (Western US)

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The Transportation Frontier, Tran-Mississippi West 1865-1890, by Oscar Osburn Winther.

A thorough dicussion of stagecoaching in the west and how it was replaced by the growing rail system. Each chapter describes the problems of finance, organization, equipment, and daily operation.

University of New Mexico Press, 1964. 224 pages, adhesive bound.

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The Transportation Frontier, Tran-Mississippi West 1865-1890, by Oscar Osburn Winther. (Western US)

The Transportation Frontier, Tran-Mississippi West 1865-1890, by Oscar Osburn Winther. (Western US)

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