Ghosts of the Colorado plains / Perry Eberhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eberhart, Perry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Extinct cities--Colorado--History.

Extinct cities.

City and town life--Colorado--History.

City and town life.

Local history.

History.

Colorado--History, Local.

Colorado.

Physical Description:

253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, [1986]

Summary:

Since the second quarter of the nineteenth century, changing conditions have built and emptied small and large towns across the Colorado plains. At the time when Denver was little more than an overpopulated campsite along Cherry Creek there were numerous other settlements to the east and south, each with its own dreams of growth, gold or silver strikes, railroad connections, and rising influence over the surrounding territory. In Ghosts of the Colorado Plains, Eberhart traces some 150 of these ill-fated settlements, providing accounts of their birth, peak activity, and ultimate demise.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Bibliography: page [237]

ISBN:

0804008329

0804008337

OCLC:

11346300