Ghost Towns of Oklahoma

English

ISBN: 0806114207

EAN: 9780806114200

Category: History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)/Travel / Special Interest / General/

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Release Date: 03/31/1978

Synopsis: In the past 150 years as many as two thousand Oklahoma hamlets, villages, towns, and even cities have bloomed and then died. Some have faded away, with not even a fallen chimney to mark their location. Others have left ghostly marks of their past--mounds of rubble grown over with grass or crumbling walls of buildings. A few still cling tenaciously to life, with a few inhibitants left to call them home. In these pages John W. Morris tells about 130 of the towns. He describes how and why each was established, the activities of its people in its heyday, and the conditions that cuased it to fade away. Of course, to tell about the towns is also to tell about the people who built them and lived in them--and once had high hopes for their success.

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Ghost Towns of Oklahoma

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.56 inches

Width: 8.5 inches

Length: 11.0 inches

Weight: 21.48 oz

Pages: 240