Spanish Peaks Library District

Text and photographs about ghost towns in all western states, the Yukon, and British Columbia.

Includes many exciting stories from the Colorado gold fields.

Book describes 57 of Colorado's ghost towns and how to get to them.

History lovers can find abandoned and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce even before Teller County was created. This work explores many of the lost and abandoned towns in Teller County from resort to mining towns.

Upon arriving in Kenworthy, California, mail-order bride Juniper Cohen is met by the pounding of the gold mine, an untamable 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 she...

A brief guide to the forgotten towns of Las Animas County. Filled with history of the towns, photographs, and maps.