Guide to the Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Description

Author: Eberhart, Perry  (1924-1989)

Publisher: Sage Books (Chicago, IL)

Pub Date: 1970 (Fourth edition, revised, second printing)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s name in ink on upper corner front pastedown.  The ghost town name “Victor”, plus page numbers, hand written on ffep upper corner at spine head.  There are several pencil marks on page 453 (under “Victor”).  Map endpapers.  Slight wear to spine foot.  Dust Jacket:  Poor to Fair.  NOT price clipped.  Numerous chips and tears.  Spine head missing the upper 1/4″ inch.  There’s a 3-4″ chip from spine foot to mid-spine, with an approx. 2″ tear and missing piece at lower front cover corner at spine foot.  All corners worn, chipped.  Now in mylar.

Notes: “This is not a history book.  Rather it is a directory of towns, and compilation of known information about those towns….In fact, much information I cite as fact, could well be ‘accepted gossip.'” (From the Preface)  Arranged by map location (start with the map endpapers, then find a somewhat larger of the 25 maps for more information on locations and access)–covers most of the Front Range, nothing east of Interstate 25, nothing for most of the western edge of the state with some exceptions in the San Juans.   Lots of period black-and-white photos.