Nevada Ghost Town Trails

by Mickey Broman

This historical book offers an intriguing look at Nevada's legendary ghost towns. Includes black and white photos and maps with detailed mileage to 139 ghost towns in the great mining state of Nevada. Complete with detailed text, helpful maps, and illustrations throughout. This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to learn the fascinating and detailed history of Nevada's ghost towns.

Genres: History

81 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1987

Reviews

[Xenophon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a quick and dirty travel guide for those keen on visiting a few Nevada ghost towns. It's dated, so don't plan on using it as your only reference. I'll bet a few of these towns have been claimed by the desert, treasure hunters, and so forth.

While the book is short on the history of each town (about a paragraph apiece), it was interesting to sit down for an hour and consider how towns rise and fall. Not to mention which towns could be brought back with new mining techniques and the like.

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I needed a quick book for a reading challenge. I really wish this book was more. I had so many questions regarding some of these towns that it took me longer to get through the book because I kept going to Google to ask my questions. It's fine for a brief guide, but could have been so much more.

[Graham Bates · Rating 4 out of 5]

A cool guide to the ghost towns in Nevada which gives a snippet of their histories and a photo from each. Gives the highlights and an opinion on whether it is easy to find or not. After 37 years I'm not sure if they're still in the same shape but they definitely didn't move!

[Wileyoneone · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book-no longer have

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liked it but couldn't say I loved it. Where there was good information I was surprised at how short the book was(read it in less than 20mins)and that most of it was consumed with maps. I liked how there were facts about every city and what their main source was during the gold rush but disliked the fact that there was only one picture for each. Some, I could understand why there weren't pictures (because even the foundations were hard to find) but others that still had remnants would have been nice to see before I decided whether or not to make the trip out there.