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University Press of Kansas
Language
English
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This illustrated guide to Kansas ghost towns will delight travelers and armchair tourists alike. Organized by region, it tells the story of 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only "a shadowy remnant of what they once were." Fitzgerald chronicles each town's settlement, politics, colorful figures and legends, and eventual abandonment or decline. Ten maps and detailed intructions for finding each site are included.
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For champion professional knitter Dymphna Pearl, inheriting part of a sun-blasted ghost town in the Texas hill country isn't just unexpected, it's a little daunting. To earn a cash bequest that could change her life, she'll have to leave California to live in tiny, run-down Fat Chance for six months with seven strangers. Impossible! Or is it? Trading her sandals for cowboy boots, Dymphna dives into her new life with equal parts anxiety and excitement....
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English
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Burt Lowell lives as a recluse in an abandoned ghost town until someone puts a price on his head and Burt wants to find out who and why. The trail leads to Ludwig Rickard the scheming owner of the Half-Box M who has his eye on the Long Rail. But there is a more sinister figure behind him and that is the elusive railroad boss Abbot Mossman. Somewhere down the tracks, Lowell must confront his would-be killer on his own ground.
4) Ghost town
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Spencer Honesty and his imaginary friend, an Indian called Chief Leopard Frog, improbably achieve fame and riches in the abandoned town of Paisley, Kansas, when Spencer begins taking photographs with his deceased father's ancient camera and Chief Leopard Frog has his poems published by a shady businessman in the Cayman Islands.
7) Fallon
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English
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He lived footloose and fancy-free until he met a girl that could become important in his life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Books, television shows, and movies have illustrated the adventures of cowboys, sharpshooters, and outlaws of the Wild West. But many popular stories about the American West have gotten some facts wrong and left others out altogether. Fact and Fiction of the Wild West dives into the myths about what life was like for settlers and Native American peoples in the West and brings the truth to light. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter...
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Boxcar children volume 71
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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While visiting a recent purchase of Grandfather's, a ghost town in the Rocky Mountains, the Aldens encounter a mystery involving a run-down motel and a woman who may be a ghost.
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English
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"Upon arriving in Kenworthy, California, mail-order bride Juniper Cohen is met by the pounding of the gold mine, an untameable landscape, and her greatest surprise of all: the kind and loving man who awaits her. But when the mine proves empty of profit, and when Juniper's husband, John, vanishes, Juniper is left to fend for herself and her young daughter in the dwindling boomtown that is now her home. Juniper pens letters to her husband but fears...
17) Quick reference to Kansas lost - found - missing towns and places: with selected trivia and truths
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Publisher
Melvin D. Bruntzel
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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18) Abandon
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English
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A century-old mystery—and a desperate battle to survive—unfold in this standalone thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion.
On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone found.
Now, journalist Abigail Foster and her...
On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone found.
Now, journalist Abigail Foster and her...
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