Ghost Towns West

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more—a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams. “Inspiring and meditative—the story of man vs...

The story of the American mining frontier can be traced in the ghost towns - from the camps of California's forty-niners to the 20th-century ruins in the Nevada desert. They mark an epoch of high adventure, of quick wealth and quicker poverty, of gambling and gun-slinging and hell-raising. We who have seen too many Western movies sometimes think that the legends of the Wild West were invented by scriptwriters - but the ghost towns remain.

Explore the haunting history of the American West as you journey through forgotten boomtowns hiding lost fortunes. Perfect for your next scenic road trip or evening escape, this atmospheric travelogue unearths the gritty reality of ambition, risk, and survival on the rugged frontier. Step past...

Three Strangers, 3 days, Trapped in a Ghost Town 100 Years in the Past. Winner, American Fiction Awards Finalist, Eric Hoffer Book Awards Brilliant but burned-out CIA operative Richard Hart has a midlife crisis. He wants out of the intelligence game for good... A CIA operative. A black-site time experiment. A ghost town that shouldn't exist. Three strangers. Three days. Trapped 100 years in the past — and hunted by the dead. 🏆 Winner, American Fiction Awards Finalist, Eric Hoffer Book Awards Burned-out CIA operative Richard Hart wants out of the intelligence game for good. But a career...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Three lives, one hundred years, one ghost town: an explosive novel about a mysterious place called Sunrise, where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried, from the award-winning author of The Tiger’s Wife “Masterful . . . [Obreht] delightfully mashes up several...

Step into the abandoned settlements of the American frontier, where relentless gold rush dreams met brutal realities. Perfect for your next road trip or daily commute, this atmospheric journey reconstructs the fragile domestic lives, wild mining pursuits, and vigilante justice that defined a...

This is a Western mystery about evidence, memory, inherited wrongdoing, and the limits of justice. Tom can no longer rely on speed or endurance alone. He must trust Sheriff Ben, Deputy Samuel Reed, Clara Bell, his brother Joe, and the steady judgment age has left him. The story stands on its own, while carrying forward people and events introduced in The Law Between Graves

Grab your pan. Pack your patience. And for heaven’s sake, do not trust every shiny rocks. Gold panning is one of the few hobbies where a grown adult can stand knee-deep in a freezing river, swirl mud in a plastic dish, stare at a speck the size of a flea’s kneecap, and whisper, “This could be it.” Welcome to the ultimate, dirt-under-your-fingernails road trip across America's historic gold country. This isn't your standard, dry history textbook written by someone in sensible shoes. Weird Gold Panning Road Trips is a witty, delightfully unhinged travel guide that takes you past the ...

Macon Fallon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while Fallon prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing...

A dime novel for a new age! Tales of the frontier in the terrifying territory of New Golgotha. In the haunted frontier of Lone Creek, resurrected-outlaw-turned-monster-hunter Billy Choate is ensnared by dark forces and a sinister figure known only as the Man in the Crimson Hat. Teamed up with another hunter, Delilah Kane and her spectral coyote, Ash, Billy battles deadly shadows and confronts a past that refuses to die. Every step draws him closer to a fate written in blood—will he break the curse or be forever lost to the darkness? "Shadows of Lone Creek" is a gripping supernatural ...

They built cities in the desert. They died for gold. They left behind monuments to ambition and ruin. In 1892, a prospector rode into Southern Cross with saddlebags full of gold. Within three years, 15,000 people lived in a town that hadn't existed before. Within twenty, it was dying. This is the pattern that shaped Western Australia: boom, prosperity, collapse, silence. From Coolgardie to Wittenoom: Stories of Australia's Lost Mining Towns Mining Boom & Bust in Western Australia reconstructs the lives behind the ruins—the miners who chased fortune through waterless country, the women who...

Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking for opportunity. As the ore disappeared, the miners moved on in search of the next big lode.

Some promises are powerful enough to wake the dead. Soon after the events of The Wicked and the Dead, an impossible October frost settles over Dodge City. Pumpkins blacken overnight, a church bell rings without a hand upon its rope, and a warning appears on the window of Milly Kane’s young twin sons: GIVE BACK THE SONS. Ron and Remington are no ordinary children. One can judge the hidden truth in a person’s heart. The other hears the names the dead refuse to surrender. When a spirit known as the Hollow Man begins gathering forgotten children from graves and homesteads across Kansas, the...

A historical fiction book set in the Kansas prairie during the late 19th century. Step into a world where dreams are built on barren soil and the ghosts of the past linger in the windswept landscape. In "The Ghost Town," follow Calvin Morgan, a tenacious man determined to carve out a life as a farmer in the unforgiving Kansas prairie. As he battles the harsh realities of lawlessness and despair, his journey reveals the thin line between hope and destruction in the small, chaotic town of Levi. As Calvin arrives in Levi, he quickly discovers a community haunted by tragedy and moral decay. The...

Vera Winslow arrived in Santo Tomás, Texas, as a mail-order bride. When the man who sent for her mistreated her, Caleb Delaney —owner of the Casa Texana— stepped in to offer her a job and a roof over her head. Now, Caleb has mysteriously vanished, leaving Vera alone to run a business that isn’t hers while facing pressure from a powerful man determined to wrest it from her. As Vera struggles to keep the store afloat, she discovers the true nature of the man she has lost through the journals he left behind. Meanwhile, a legend circulates along the road between Santo Tomás and Marfa: ...

Local matchmaker and PI Demeter West gets called in to investigate some interdimensional turbulence in the basement of the local library. Over the course of the investigation, Demeter learns some new approaches to tarot work, some local history, some new information about Casper's situation within the multiverse, and some things she didn't know about her husband and daughter.

Cat and the members of her writers' retreat have just arrived in Outlaw, Colorado, an "Old West" tourist town complete with inhabitants dressed up as famous figures from history. But this authentic slice of Americana takes a murderous turn when a college student masquerading as a 19th-century saloon girl becomes history herself. Was she the intended target? Or did she take a hit meant for someone else? With a cast of suspects to choose from, Cat must unhorse the real culprit before a real-life ghost story is given a killer twist

Fifteen years have passed with only the exchange of letters among three families connected by love and misfortune. Now remnants of these families reunite when May Rose follows her reckless stepdaughter, Wanda, to a West Virginia ghost town. The town has not been kind to either woman, but Wanda is determined to go back and capture the heart of a man who rejected her. Barlow Townsend has come into May Rose's life again, yet, like her, he is constrained by guilt.

Are you ready to visit the strangest state in America? Arizona isn't just a state. It's a fever dream baked into red rock and desert sand — where gold mines swallow treasure hunters whole, where ghost towns outnumber living ones, and where thousands of people once watched a massive silent spacecraft glide over Phoenix while the government shrugged and said "probably flares." Weird Arizona Stories takes you on a wild ride through the Grand Canyon State's most jaw-dropping legends, baffling crimes, haunted hotels, desert monsters, and moments of pure human madness that no screenwriter could...

She thought she’d heard it all. Then the hangman called. Psychic witch Allison Lopez has dealt with angry spirits, ancient gods, and haunted radio stations. But nothing prepares her for the call that comes in during her live show: a man describing the unseen hands squeezing the life from his throat in the dead of night. Desperate to help, Allison heads into California’s high desert, where an old mining town’s bloody history refuses to stay buried. There’s a spirit here with murder in its heart, fueled by anger, greed, and a century-old hanging tree. As Allison’s visions reveal a ...