Ghost Towns of Oklahoma, Paperback - John W. Morris

Reducere. In the past 150 years as many as two thousand Oklahoma hamlets, villages, towns, and even cities have bloomed and then died. Some have faded away, ...

Reducere. Arizona's ghost towns exemplify man's courage, tenacity, and perhaps even foolishness in his search for wealth. Inevitable by-products of the devel...

Reducere. Beulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect...

Reducere. There is something romantic yet harshly concrete about an abandoned town. Dreams, conflicts, and losses still haunt what remains, so it's no wonder...

Reducere. "The indefatigable T. Lindsay Baker has now turned his enormous mental and physical energies to the subject and has brought to view - if not to lif...

Reducere. The 1849 Gold Rush lives today throughout Northern California, from the name of a San Francisco football team to the many small towns -- including ...

Reducere. In places like the valley town of Alma, once known to Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, and through the dusty streets of San Antonio, where Conrad ...

Reducere. DescriptionFounded by Glenn Morris in 2012, the Ohio Ghost Town Exploration Co. researches, explores, and promotes the preservation of the coolest ...

Reducere. Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, the...

Reducere. For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a fourteen-year-old ...

Reducere. North Georgia has more than forty lakes, and not one is natural. The state's controversial decision to dam the region's rivers for power and water ...

Reducere. Fishing is one of the most popular sports in Oklahoma, a state that boasts over 1, 000 square miles of water. Now Fishes of Oklahoma, the only comp...

Reducere. Although the Death Valley area is sparsely populated, it once was home to a good many towns, some of which not only have disappeared from the deser...

Reducere. DescriptionNorth Georgia has more than forty lakes, and not one is natural. The state's controversial decision to dam the region's rivers for power...

Reducere. The Historical Atlas of Oklahoma has been an indispensable reference for longer than four decades. Issued on the eve of the Oklahoma Centennial, th...

Reducere. DescriptionA guide to 25 of Montana's ghost towns Learn the history, reminisce with black and white photos and get directions to take you there

Reducere. This useful guidebook surveys more than eighty ghost towns, grouped by geographic area. First published in 1981 and now available only from the Uni...

Reducere. Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West's most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land ...

Reducere. From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding...

Reducere. Wind whistles through an abandoned mine shaft. A loose door knocks in the breeze. Cattle feed past the tilted skeleton of a barn. Underneath, if yo...

The Constitution Of The State Of Oklahoma, has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This for...

Reducere. A state of botanical dynamism, Oklahoma's wild edible plant life is rich and varied. This diversity is linked to a number of environmental elements...

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Reducere. One of America's most colorful oilmen was Ernest Whitworth Marland, a man who had much in common with other industrial giants of his age-- the Mell...

Reducere. For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Meriwether Lewis's death a suicide, an accident, or a homicide? By His Own Hand? is the first boo...

Reducere. In the past, Roman pottery has been judged as inferior to Greek pottery. Recent excavations, however, have led to an increase in knowledge and appr...

Reducere. DescriptionMassacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Oklahoma 2, with compelling legends of the Sooner State's most despica...

Reducere. In 1980, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New Land that described and analyzed the role of the ma...

Reducere. The big Horn Basin of northern Wyoming was one of the last frontiers in the continental United States. With settlers did not arrive until 1879, whe...

Reducere. Unlike the movie ghost towns of the Old West, the ghost towns in Florida don't have tumbleweeds rolling on deserted dirt roads, abandoned wooden sa...