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Ghost Towns of the American West

by Robert Silverberg

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With a historian's attention to fact and a novelist's gift for dramatic storytelling, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg brings these adventures back to life in the rowdy splendor of their heyday in Ghost Towns of the American West.

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Genres: Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 978 — History & geography History of North America Western United States
LCC: F591 .S55 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
BISAC: HIS HISTORY United States State & Local West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

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Published: 1968
Genres: Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 978
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