Arizona's ghost towns exemplify man's courage, tenacity, and perhaps even foolishness in his search for wealth. Inevitable by-products of the development of gold, silver, copper, and other mineral deposits in Arizona, some of these communities mushroomed overnight into a hodgepodge of tents and makeshift homes, while others developed over a period of years into tidy, well-planned townsites. Whatever their design, intent, or purpose, when their existence was no longer profitable they slipped into the category of ghost towns ...
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Arizona's ghost towns exemplify man's courage, tenacity, and perhaps even foolishness in his search for wealth. Inevitable by-products of the development of gold, silver, copper, and other mineral deposits in Arizona, some of these communities mushroomed overnight into a hodgepodge of tents and makeshift homes, while others developed over a period of years into tidy, well-planned townsites. Whatever their design, intent, or purpose, when their existence was no longer profitable they slipped into the category of ghost towns.
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Maps by Don Percious. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to15. x, 208pp, b/w ills throughout, maps, bibliography, index. Prev owner's bookplate laid down on the front flyleaf. Or black cloth boards in jacket. The authors have included many specially drawn maps; and accurate township, range and section co-ordinates place the towns at their correct locations. Using this information, the sites can be located from standard base maps.
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