Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns
- ISBN-10
- 0870040219
- ISBN-13
- 9780870040214
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 239
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1963
- Publisher
- Caxton Press
- Author
- Robert L. Brown
Description
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Settle into your four-wheel-drive vehicle or a chair and take off for the mining camps of Colorado! This book is an illustrated history of fifty-nine towns famous during the gold and silver rushes of the 1800s, with directions on how to get to each.
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