The Mining Camps Speak: A New Way to Explore the Ghost Towns of the American West

by Beth Sagstetter and Bill Sagstetter

Book Overview

The Mining Camps Speak is for people who have visited ghost town sites in the past and were disappointed because there was "nothing left." Here is a new way to explore these mysterious sites, even if... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964582414
• ISBN13: 9780964582415
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Benchmark Publishing (CO)
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Mining Camps Speak

This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn about old mining towns and what you can find when you visited them. I have a much better understanding of what to look for when I see old structures and now I might even be able to figure out what they once were! Great book and a fun read!

very informative

This is an invaluable resource when hiking old mining camps in the San Juan mountians.

Buy it now!

I have used this book with great success in my Colorado history classes and I recommend it to anyone with an interest in mining history and the Rocky Mountain West. Other books tell you where the "ghost towns" are located, but this book is unique in helping you understand what you are seeing when you get there. Their chapter on tin can dating alone is worth the price of the book. The research here is incredible and the photographs very clear. Take this along on your next trip into the mountains.

Fascinating!

This is a fabulous book which should appeal to anyone who spends any time in the back-country of the American West. You know those tumble-down buildings and random bits of rusted iron you occasionally encounter? Turns out they're not the junky nuisance you thought. This book, which is a fascinating read, will enable you to appreciate how folks 100 years ago were living in the very places you're exploring by showing you what all those things were used for. A wonderful find (or gift) for anyone with an interest in the mountains.