Just a list of books I have and read. I enjoy them all and there are many more that I don’t have. It’s all good as far as I’m concerned.



Abandoned Settlements Of The Eastern Mojave – Hart – Vanderbilt – Vontrigger – Lanfair – Maruba (Ledge) – Dunbar – Barnwell (Manvel) – Alan Hensher - 2007
A Beginners Guide To Visiting Ghost Towns, Mining Camps And Historical Sites – Douglas Pifer – 2005 ISBN - 0976676508, 9780976676508
A Field Guide To Rocks and Minerals – Frederick H. Pough – 1953 (Erle Stanley Gardner collection)
Across The Plains in Forty-Nine – Reuben Cole Shaw - 1948
An Empire of Silver – Robert L. Brown - 1968
Anybody’s Gold – Story of California Mining Towns – Joseph Henry Jackson - 1970
Aurora Nevada’s Silent City on the Hill - Sue Silver - 2011
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Automobile Gold Rushes and Depression Era Mining - Charles W. Miller - 1998
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Arizona’s Best Ghost Towns – Philip Varney – 1980
Arizona Strip In Mohave County – Roman Malach - 1975
Babysitting A Ghost Town – Suzy McCoy - 1998
Ballad Of A Laughing Mountain – Jerome Arizona – Art Clark And Richard Snodgrass – 1957/1991
Bannack – Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks
Beatty – Frontier Oasis – Robert McCracken – 1992
Belmont Nevada – Alan H. Patera – 2005
Bennettville and Tioga Mining District – Alan H. Patera – 2003
Between Tonopah And Goldfield – Klondike – Gold Reef – Divide – Alan H. Patera – 2007
Boom Towns of the Great Basin – Frank C. Robinson and Beth Kay Harris - 1962
California Desert Byways – Tony Huegel - 2003
California Nevada Ghost Town Atlas – Robert Neil Johnson - 1970
Coloma – First Town Of The Mountains – Alan H. Patera - 1998
Connecting The West – Shawn Hall - 2002
Death Valley – A Guide – Federal Writers Project – Sponsored By Bret Harte Associates - 1939
Death Valley and The Amargosa – Richard E. Lingenfelter - 1986
Death Valley Ghost Towns – Volume 1 – Stanley W. Paher - 1981
Death Valley Jeep Trails – Roger Mitchell - 1969
Death Valley National Park – Booklet – 1961
Death Valley National Monument – Booklet – 1961(need to check the difference)
Death Valley Prospectors – Dane Coolidge - 1985
Deep Enough - Frank Crampton - 1956/1993
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Desert Magazine – Various Vintage Issues
Desert Rat Scrap Book - Harry Oliver
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Deserts – Gayle Pickwell – 1939
Drills And Mills – Will Meyerriecks - 2003
East of the Cascades – Phil F. Brogan - 1977
Eldorado and Diamond Springs – California – Weberville – Ringgold – Logtown – Aurum City – Alan H. Patera - 2001
Eureka – It’s Resources – Lambert Molinelli - 1982
Exploring Death Valley – Ruth Kirk - 1959
From This Mountain – Cerro Gordo – Robert C. Likes and Glenn R. Day - 1975
Funeral Mountains – Keane Wonder – Keane Springs – Chloride City – Lee Nevada – Lee California – Lee Addition – Echo – Schwab – Alan H. Patera – 2002
Gem Trail Journal – Darold J. Henry - 1952
Geologic Map Of California – Death Valley Sheet – 1958
Ghost And Shadow Towns Of The Glory Road – Thomas W. More – 1970
Ghosts Of The Adobe Walls - Nell Murbarger - 1964
Ghosts Of The Glory Trail – Nell Murbarger – 1960/1963/1983
Ghosts Of The Past - Eastern Oregon Ghost Towns – Keith F. May -1996
Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of California – Remi Nadeau - 1965
Ghost Towns Of The Northwest – Norman D. Weis - 1996
Ghost Towns Of The West – Sunset Pictorial – William Carter – 1978
Ghost Mines Of Yosemite – Douglas Hubbard – 1971
Goldfield Boomtown Of Nevada – Stanley W. Paher – 1977
Good Springs Nevada – Sandy – Jean – Keystone – Platina – Ripley – Yellow Pine – Alan H. Patera – 1999
Guide To Remote and Mysterious Saline Valley – Bill Mann – 2002
Historic Silver City – The Story of the Owyhees – Mildred Adams - 1991
Hornsilver – Gold Point – Nevada – Alan H. Patera – 2003
Lady In Boomtown – Miners and Manners On The Nevada Frontier – Mrs. Hugh Brown - 1968
Loafing Along Death Valley Trails – William Caruthers – 1951 (Two copies)
Lost Mines and Treasures of the Pacific Northwest – Ruby El. Hult - 1964
Lundy – Alan H. Patera – 2000
Minerals, Metals and Gems – Hyatt Verrill – 1939
Mines of Death Valley – L. Burr Belden - 1976
Mines of the San Bernardinos – John W. Robinson - 1977
Mining Camp Days – Emil W. Billeb - 1986
Mining Districts and Mineral Resources of Nevada – Francis Church Lincoln – 1923 – Photocopied Stanley W. Paher 1982
Montana Mining Camps – Landusky – Marysville – Castle – Alan H. Patera – 1996
Mountain City (Nevada) – Gregory Martin - 2001
Mountain Mysteries – Ouray Odyssey – Marvin Gregory and P. David Smith - 1992
Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps – Stanley W. Paher – 1970
Nevada Ghost Town Trails – Mickey Broman - 1978
Nevada History Through Glass - The Nevada Bottle Book Volume 1 - Fred N. Holabird - 2012
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Nevada Official Bicentennial Book – Stanley W. Paher – 1976
Nevada Post Card Album – Photographic Views Of Nevada – Robert Greenwood – 1998
Nevada Towns and Tales – Volume 1 – North – Stanley W. Paher – 1981
Nevada’s Turbulent Yesterday – A Study In Ghost Towns – Don Ashbaugh - 1963
Old Heart Of Nevada – Shawn Hall - 1998
Oregon For The Curious – Ralph Friedman - 1974
Oregon Ghost Towns – Lambert Florin – 1970
Oregon’s Golden Years – Miles F. Potter – 1976
Pacific Northwest Mining Camps – Bodie Washington – Pearl Idaho – Cableville Oregon – Silver City Idaho – Alan H. Patera - 1994
Preserving The Glory Days – Shawn Hall - 1999
Rebecca’s Walk Through Time – A Rhyolite Story – Suzy McCoy - 2004
Rhyolite – Death Valley’s Ghost City of Golden Dreams – Harold and Lucille Weight - 1980
Rhyolite’s Demise – Pioneer – Springdale – Alan H. Patera – 2004
Rhyolite – The Boom Years – Alan H. Patera – 1994
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Romancing Nevada’s Past – Shawn Hall - 1994
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Saloons Of (Old And New) Nevada – Raymond M. Smith – 1992
Shorty Harris, Or, The Price of Gold – William W. Bevis - 1999
Silver Peak – Never A Ghost Town – Victoria Ford – Oral History Project - 2002
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Shaniko – Helen Guyton Rees - 1982
Skidoo – Harrisburg – Emigrant Springs – Alan H. Patera – David A. Wright - 1999
Some Dreams Die – Utahs Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures – George Thompson - 1982
Southern California’s Best Ghost Towns – Philip Varney – 1990
Southern Colorado 4-Wheeling – San Juans – Wayne W. Griffin – 1998
Southern Idaho Ghost Towns – Wayne Sparling – 1974
Talc Deposits Of The Southern Death Valley Kingston Range Region California – California Division Of Mines And Geology – Special Report 95 – Lauren A. Wright – 1968
Tecopa Mines In The Death Valley Region – Kenneth Lengner and George Russ – 2006
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To Hell On Wheels – The Illustrated Manual Of Desert Survival – Alan H. Siebert - 1974
Treasure Hill – Portrait of a Silver Mining Camp – W. Turrentine Jackson - 1963
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The Automobile Gold Rushes and Depression Era Mining – Charles W. Miller - 1998
The Bonanza Trail – Muriel Sibell Wolle – 1953
The Complete Nevada Traveler – David W. Toll - 1993
The Early Hisstory of Goldfield Nevada – Writings of T.A. Rickard – Sirnes – 2004
The Hell Hole – Yuma Prison Story – William and Milarde Brent - 1962
The Humboldt Range – 19th Century Mining Camps – Unionville – Star City – Humboldt City – Santa Clara – Lima – Prince Royal – Alan H. Patera - 1995
The Look Of The Old West – Foster-Harris – 1955
The Making of a Hardrock Miner - Stephen M.Voynick - 1978
The Modern Pioneers of Amargosa Valley – Robert McCracken – 1992
The Mojave Desert – John M. Swisher - 1999
The Mountain Trees Of Southern California – Edmund C. Jaeger - 1919
The Pine Nut Chronicles – Mining in Douglas County Nevada – Nyle Nation - 1992
The Reveille District – New and Old Reveille, Gila Mill, Arrowhead, Warm Springs – Alan Patera - 2008
The Sazerac Lying Club – Fred H. Hart – Editor of the Austin Reveille - 1878
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The Town that Died Laughing - Oscar Lewis - 1955
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These Canyons Are Full Of Ghosts – Emmett C. Harder - 2001
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Utah Ghost Towns – Stephen Carr – 1972
War Eagle Mountain Field Trip – Historical And Mining Log – Wilma Lewis Stratham 2003
Wells Fargo – An Illustrated History – Noel M. Loomis - 1968
Western Mining - Otis E. Young, Jr. - 1970/1987
Western Nevada Jeep Trails – Roger Mitchell - 1973
Western Places – Ajax Oregon – Kawich Nevada – Alan H. Patera – 1995
Western Places – Aurora Nevada – Alan H. Patera – 1993
Western Places – Tybo Nevada – Alan H. Patera - 1993

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