Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- One: Golden Ghosts -- Two: The California Gold Rush -- Three: California Mining Camps -- Four: Ghost Towns of California -- Five: The Boom Moves Inland -- Six: Phantom Cities of the Nevada Desert -- Seven: On to the Rockies -- Eight: The Prospectors Head North -- Nine: Montana's Lawless Camps -- Ten: Ghost Towns of the Southwest -- Eleven: The Last Ghost Towns -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
With a historian's attention to fact and a novelist's gift for dramatic storytelling, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg brings these adventures back to life in the rowdy splendor of their heyday in Ghost Towns of the American West