Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps, by Stanley W. Paher

Here is Nevada’s all-time best selling history book, with more then 64,000 copies sold. Large 8-1/2 x 11 format, 500 pp., 710 illustrations, maps and index. Here is the largest ghost town book of all time. In all, 668 ghost towns are described with travel directions. Contains more pictures and describes more localities than any other Nevada book. Nearly every page brings new information and unpublished photos of the towns, the mines, the people and early Nevada life. This book won the national “Award of Merit” for history. Clothbound with color dust jacket, index, glossary, desert travel hints, reading list. Autographed copies available

Old Heart of Nevada by Shawn Hall

This volume is about Norhteastern Nevada, Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of Elko County. Here is the history and present condition of once-thriving mining camps, stagecoach stops, and ranching towns. Directions to sites are included. 308 pages. Ills. Index

Preserving the Glory Days by Shawn Hall

Preserving the Glory Days reveals the history and present condition of one-thriving mining camp, stagecoach stops, and ranching towns of eastern Nevada. Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of Nye County. Directions to sites included.301 pp. Biblio, Ills. index.

Romancing Nevada's Past, by Shawn Hall

Ghost towns & historic sites of Eureka, Lander, and White Pine Counties. Here is the history and present condition of once-thriving mining camps, statecoach stops, and ranching towns of eastern Nevada. Directions to sites are included. 208pages, Illis, Index

DEATH VALLEY GHOST TOWNS, VOL. I, by Stanley W. Paher

32 pp., 9 x 12, map, 50 old-time photographs. Though Death Valley is known for its colorful eras of borax mining, there were gold and silver rushes also. The first one included Panamint and Calico, while the early 20th century boom produced Rhyolite, Greenwater, and others. About 35 mining camps are included. Color cover.

DEATH VALLEY GHOST TOWNS, VOL. II, by Stanley W. Paher

32 pp., 9 x 12, Old-time photographs, Mining camps of Death Valley — Skidoo, Panamint City, and Old Stovepipe Wells— are joined by those immediately to the west, including Cerro Gordo, Darwin and Cartago. There are essays on the prospector, the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad and desert driving hints. Color cover.

NEVADA GHOST TOWNS & DESERT ATLAS Vol I

38 maps in full color show more than 1100 places of interest for both the casual desert visitor and the serious off-road explorer. VOLUME ONE - Northern Nevada, Reno - Austin - Ely, and points north. 104 pp 8-1/2” x 11”, 265 illus.

NEVADA GHOST TOWNS & DESERT ATLAS Vol.II

33 maps in full color show more than 1100 places interest for both the casual desert visitor and the serious off-road explorer. 265 photographs show places of historic interest. VOLUME TWO - Southern Nevada, Death Valley -NW Arizona, Bodie area—Hawthorne, Tonopah, Ely and points south. 104 pp.8-1/2” x 11” , 265 illus.

NEVADA GHOST TOWNS & DESERT ATLAS COMBINED EDITION

62 color maps show more than 2100 places of interest for both the casual desert visitor and the serious off-road explorer. All books with color covers, 8-1/2” x 11” 552 photographs show places of historic interest. 725 ghost towns and stage stations, keyed to the popular book above, Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps. Prominent mining areas, emigrant trails, Pony Express and the Old Spanish trail. Abandoned railroads, desert cemeteries, unusual desert features, 115 placer gold mining sites, 130 gemstone sites, campgrounds, hot springs, caves, recreation areas, state parks, scenic byways. COMBINED EDITION - All material presented in the two above books are in one paperback edition. 208 pp., 8.5 x 11.

CALIFORNIA GOLD COUNTRY: EARLY MINING DAYS, by Stanley W. Paher

48pp., 9 x 12, 65 full-color photographs, illus., maps. Stunning photos of the Mother Lode mining camps — from Sierraville southward to Grass Valley, Auburn, Placerville, Columbia — are arrayed among eleven 19th-century colored line sketches showing miners extracting gold, engaging in recreation, and transporting ore from the Mother Lode.

GHOSTS OF THE GLORY TRAIL, by Nell Murbarger

316 pp., illus., index. Subtitled “Intimate glimpses into the past and present of 275 western ghost towns,” Ghosts of the Glory Trail is a fast-moving chronicle depicting the early-day mining stampedes. All Nevada counties are represented either in the 39 chapters on specific towns (such as Aurora, Rhyolite, Candelaria, Hamilton, Unionville, Belmont, Tybo, Tuscarora, Delamar, etc.) or in the ghost town directory with 275 listings, some in California and Utah. Color hardcover.
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NEVADA LOST MINES AND BURIED TREASURE, by Douglas McDonald

128 pp., 6 x 9, illus. Legends of lost mines in Nevada date from the Gold Rush of 1849 when westbound emigrants discovered silver in the desolate Black Rock Desert. The author recounts 74 of these stories which also include tales of buried coins, bullion bars, stolen bank money, etc. Twocolor maps show general treasure localities. Color cover.

MINING CAMP DAYS, by Emil W. Billeb

229 pp., illus. The author provides insights into Nevada and eastern California mining camps after 1905. Dozens of unpublished photographs were taken by this observer-participant, augmenting a good text.

AURORA, NEVADA’S GHOST CITY OF THE DAWN, by Robert E. Stewart

144 pp., 7 x 10, illus., maps. 2nd edition. The town of Aurora, (8 miles east of Bodie), was among Nevada’s largest 19th century gold mining camps. Here is the story of its mines and mills and everyday mining camp life during the turbulent Civil War. Accompanied by many unpublished photographs. Features a section on Mark Twain who resided in Aurora for 2 mos in 1862.

BODIE’S GOLD, by Marguerite Sprague

264 pp. Author interviewed many former Bodie residents to produce her lively history of California’s official Gold Rush ghost town. Numerous historic photographs included.

BODIE BONANZA, by Warren Loose

246 pp., illus. A Bodie native chronicles the social picture of the camp during its heyday (1878-1880), lacing the text with news stories of the fortunes, failures, the rowdiness, businesses, the “red lights,” and entertainments.

BODIE…BOOM TOWN, GOLD TOWN! The Last of California’s Old-Time Mining Camps, by Douglas McDonald

48 pp., illus., color cover, 7 x 10. Though Bodie was discovered in 1859, no significant mining started until rich strikes in 1877 brought about a furious mining rush two years later. Photos show mines and miners, street scenes, buildings, the mill, and the crowds which made up Bodie.

BODIE: THE MINES ARE LOOKING WELL, by Michael Piatt

288 pp., 8-1/2 x 11. Illus. “The mines are looking well” reassured speculators during the Bodie boom of 1877-1881. Here, in one location, author Piatt has written the largest single history of any mining camp, complete with 145 photographs (several unpublished 1879-1880 street scenes and views of the mines), and numerous untold stories embodied in the text and historical sidebars. Color Hardcover dust jacket.
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BODIE’S BOSS LAWMAN, The Odyssey of Constable John F. Kirgan, by Bill Merrell, with David Carle

176 pages, 75 illus., 16 in color, maps, notes, index. Fate brought John Kirgan to Bodie in 1877, where he served as constable, jailer and deputy sheriff during the boom years. Serving as the “boss lawman” of Bodie was the culmination of Kirgan’s life – an odyssey that placed him in contact with the emerging history of the American West. The foreword by Stanley Paher consists of a series of lively essays on various aspects of Bodie history: Commerce, Gambling and Saloons, Mining and Speculation, Bodie’s ‘High’ School, the Jail, Fire, at Home in Bodie, Transportation, and Law and Disorder. Hardcover
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CALIFORNIA GHOST TOWN TRAILS, by Mickey Broman

112 pp. Quick reference and guide to 70 ghost towns, illustrated with contemporary photographs. Maps, index.

NEVADA TREASURE HUNTERS GHOST TOWN GUIDE

Maps 1867 and 1881 show 800 place names—mining camps, springs, mountains, water holes, and even a camel trail.

TONOPAH, NEVADA SILVER CAMP, by Stanley W. Paher

16 pp., 9 x 12, map. The silver discovery at Tonopah in 1900 triggered the fast-paced 20th century Nevada mining era. Here is a summary of the mining boom days in text and historic pictures.

DEATH VALLEY’S SCOTTY’S CASTLE, by Stanley W. Paher

48 pp., large 9 x 12 format, heavily illustrated in color. Built with funds supplied by a Chicago insurance executive benefactor, the Castle ultimately took its name from a local prospector who publicized it and jealously guarded its development — Walter “Death Valley” Scott. Besides a history of Scott, there are a out fifty intricate color pictures of the Castle.

WESTERN ARIZONA GHOST TOWNS, by Stanley W. Paher.

64 pp., 9 x 12, illus., color cover. Within a day’s drive of Las Vegas, Kingman, Parker, and Yuma are more than five dozen ghost towns, each described in a lively text with historic photographs. Includes Oatman, Eldorado Canyon, Searchlight, Chloride, Gila City, Laguna, LaPaz, Ehrenburg, and more. Also information about steamboats. A stunning 1862 color map of the Colorado River occupies the back cover.

THE GOLDFIELD HOTEL, Gem of the Desert, by Patty Cafferata

44 pp., illus., index. Contains information of the opulent hotel’s interior, its owners, myths associated with the hotel and its ghosts.