Arizona's Ghost Towns and Mining Camps: A Travel Guide to History
by Philip Varney

The legends endure through stories and photographs. Ghost town authority Philip Varney brings the Old West to life with intriguing anecdotes and a gallery of rare, historic photographs. Regional maps, detailed travel information, and a full-color photographic portfolio tell what each site is like today, and make this fascinating history of Arizona's mining boom a reliable travel guide as well.

In the book's introduction, Varney tells us: "Arizona's history is most clearly illustrated by the quest for its mineral wealth.
To experience this mining history, one can explore its remnants, the ghost towns and mining camps that were left
behind when the riches faded. . . ." 

Why are so many people fascinated by ghost towns? Mystery writer Tony Hillerman put it perfectly: 'To me, to many of my friends, to scores of thousands of Americans, these ghost towns offer a sort of touching-place with the past. We stand in their dust and try to project our imagination backward into what they were long ago. Now and then , if the mood and the light and the weather are exactly right, we almost succeed.' ''

Paperback - 136 pages 
(1998) 
Dimensions (in inches):  0.39 x 10.75 x 8.27

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