Wonderful anecdotes occur throughout an entire chapter is devoted to “The Graves of Jimmy Dayton and Shorty Harris,” legends of Death Valley. Southern Californias Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guide Idioma Inglés de Varney, Philip en - ISBN 10: 0806126086 - ISBN 13: 9780806126081 - University of Oklahoma Press. Mills traveled his Carson and Colorado Railroad on July 12, 1883, for the end-of-track inspection (in Keeler, a town whose purpose was evaporating even as rail was laid),” Varney writes, “he surveyed the scene with a somber silence and intoned: ‘Gentlemen, we either built it three hundred miles too long or three hundred years too soon.’ ”įollowing up similar guides to the ghost towns of New Mexico and Arizona, “Southern California’s Best Ghost Towns” provides history, photographs and directions to more than 60 sites. Philip Varney defines a ghost town not as a completely deserted place but as a community with a population drastically decreased from its peak and whose initial reason for attracting residents no longer exists. Our young nation’s equivalent of an archeological site, ghost towns bear witness to the fitful starts and stops of forgotten passages in our short history-communities built on one person’s dream that dried up when the idea failed way stations on a road that never materialized boom towns that sank roots in a wrongheaded industry. Ghost towns are enormously appealing they provide perversely comforting proof that progress is not a smooth road forward into a glorious future.
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