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Missouri
Ghost
Stretch in Southwest Missouri
Ill-Fated
Times Beach
Red Oak II - A
Stroll Through the Past
Montana
Bannack - From
Gold to Ghosts
Bannack Vintage Photographs
Garnet -
Montana’s
Best Kept Ghost
Town Secret
Virginia City, Montana - A Lively Ghost Town
Nebraska
Crookston- A
Semi-Ghost Town
Nevada
Delamar - The
Widow Maker
Eldorado Canyon
- Lawlessness on the Colorado River
Goldfield -
Queen of the Mining Camps
Gold Point -
Waxing & Waning Through Time
Goodsprings,
- Still Kicking the Desert Dust
Rhyolite -
Little More Than a Memory
Tybo - Plight of
the Chinese
New Mexico
Ancho - Returning
to Nature
Chloride - Center of the Apache Mining
District
The Ghosts of
Dawson
Dawson Vintage Photographs
Elizabethtown -
Gone But Not Forgotten
Elizabethtown Vintage Photographs
Endee to San Jon
- Ghostly Stretch of 66
Fort Union - Protecting the Santa Fe Trail
Ghosts Beyond Tucumcari, New Mexico
Montoya
Newkirk
Cuervo
Glenrio - A
Route 66 Casualty
Golden
Indian Country Ghost Towns
Budville
Cubero
McCartys
San Fidel
Jicarilla - Still Gold in Them Thar Hills
Lincoln - Wild Wild West Frozen in Time
McKinley
County Ghosts
Clarkville
Gamerco
Heaton
Mentmore
Navajo
Mogollon -
Surviving All Odds
Monticello Canyon Ghost Towns - Placita and Monticello
Shakespeare - Born Again and Again
Steins - A Railroad Ghost
TownTurquoise
Trail Scenic Byway
Golden, New
Mexico Has Seen Better Days
Los Cerrillos
- 2,000 Years of History
Madrid - A Ghost
Town Reborn
White Oaks - Livliest Town in the Territory
Winston - Mining & Ranching in
Sierra County
Oklahoma
Foss - Doomed From
the Beginning
Shamrock - Oil
Boom & Bust
Texola - Gateway to Oklahoma
Warwick,
Oklahoma Has Seen Better Days
Oregon
Shaniko - Wool
Capitol of the World
Sumpter - Queen
City Ghost Town
South Dakota
Okaton - A
Prairie Ghost Town
Texas
Alanreed - Gone
Are the Glory Days
Fort Griffin -
Lawlessness on the Brazos
Glenrio - A
Route 66 Casualty
Indianola -
One Time Port City
Mobeetie -
Panhandle Mother City
Utah
Castle Gate Lost Treasure
Cisco - Crumbling in the
Relentless Sun
Colton - Railroad Mining Ghost Town
Frisco - A Ten
Year High
Fruita - A Lush Valley in the Desert Terrain
Grafton - Virgin River
Ghost Town
Silver Reef - Sandstone
Ghost Town
Thompson Springs - Dying
in the Desert
Sego Canyon,
Utah - History & Ancient History
Winter Quarters - Ghost
Town Loot
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The past belongs to the future...but only
the present can preserve it.
-- Unknown
St Elmo in
1934. Today,
St. Elmo is
one of the most preserved ghost towns in
Colorado.
This image available for photographic prints
HERE!
THIS OLD TOWN
I was born here.
In a long ago land of shadows and muted sounds
I brushed against the pages of my days,
Partially separated the shadows and sounds.
The world was hot and cold against my cheeks
Within these small structured walls I learned
While my fancies found wings
And sailed far beyond these walls.
I worshipped here.
The soaring sounds touched God
And He made me a sinner.
I loved here,
And became immortal
For a moment.
I heard the music of life
And I carried the music within me.
In the melted minutes of larger shadows and louder sounds
I sweat cold sweat
I smelled the odors of life
Tasted dirt
Felt pain
And slowly died.
I was buried here
Under the cold clay of a faraway field.
A few unheard words gave my entire life meaning.
Stirring my silent screams even more than before.
The town is gone now
And the treasure of my life is spent
Upon the night winds and the weeds,
And on eternity.
-- Perry Eberhart, Ghosts of the Colorado Plains, Swallow
Press Books, Athens, Ohio, 1986.
Book your
lodging right
HERE online
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Take nothing but photos - leave
nothing
but footprints - break nothing but
silence - kill nothing but time.
--Explorer's
Code
Funks
Grove,
Illinois General Store, September, 2004,
Kathy Weiser
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Two Guns,
Arizona
Tower, December, 2004,
Kathy Weiser
This image available for
photographic prints and downloads
HERE!
Gold Point,
Nevada's
post office closed in 1967,
April, 2005, Kathy Weiser.
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From the Rocky Mountain General Store
 Ghost
Towns of the Northwest, by
Norman D. Weis
Travel through the
ghost-town
country of the Pacific Northwest, guided by the camera and pen of Norman
D. Weis. Both well known and obscure towns, with intriguing names such as
Comeback Mine Camp, Electric, Ruby, Greenback, Disautel, and Old Todora
entice you to explore their secrets. The book explores 62 abandoned
towns in the boonies of
Oregon,
Washington,
Idaho,
Wyoming and
Montana.
The author has given you a head start in your quest, having explored new
angles for information on some of the more familiar
ghost-towns, or visiting with old-timers for an offbeat story or two.
The enigmas of lesser known areas are unraveled as Weis tells how he
located each place, and conducted his on-site study of remains to decipher
the town's reason for existence and the cause of its demise.
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