Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico

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Author: James E. Sherman and Barbara H.
Sherman Book Page #: 270
Book Size: 11.1 (H) x 8.4 (W) x 0.8 (Th)
Type: Paperback
Weight: 23
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publish Date: June 1980

THE VALLEY TOWN OF ALMA was once known to Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. Conrad Hilton began his fabulous career by carrying luggage from the train station to his father's hotel through the dusty streets of San Antonio. In these and many other ghost towns and mining camps of New Mexico, James E. and Barbara H. Sherman have explored the state's famous and infamous past. Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico offers a historical and pictorial journey through more than 130 of the state's old and defunct mining, farming, railroad, and lumbering communities. A cross-section of the frontier legacy of New Mexico unfolds through photographs and descriptions of each town's history and the notable people who lived there. Town entries are arranged alphabetically and include the county and other locating information. More than 450 photographs illustrate both the past and the contemporary condition of these communities. The book includes ten maps and accurate township, range, and section coordinates. Vacationers, ghost-town buffs, and armchair adventurers as well as serious historians can take a real or imagined trip to New Mexico's past with this book in hand.