Ghost Towns of Kansas - Couverture souple

Fitzgerald, Daniel C

 
9781450556521: Ghost Towns of Kansas

Synopsis

This is the third volume in the original Ghost Towns of Kansas series. Originally published in 1982, this 28th anniversary reissue documents the histories of a hundred exciting Kansas ghost towns that grew, prospered, and died across the state. These hundred ghost town histories are organized by topic, such as boom towns, mining towns, free state/ pro-slavery towns, county seat towns, and railroad towns. This series won numerous awards and accolades, including several news emmys. This third volume has been lovingly edited and restored with a new foreword by the author.

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À propos de l?auteur

Daniel C. Fitzgerald is a Kansas historian and columnist best known as the author of a six volume set on Kansas ghost towns. The first volume was released in 1976, and the last volume was just released in 2009. He is also the author of a very successful history of Kansas tornadoes, entitled Sound and Fury. His ghost towns series has won numerous awards and one of his towns, Neosho Falls, was the subject of a rock album by the band Kansas. Fitzgerald, a Kansas native, currently resides in Palm Harbor, Florida.

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