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Americans, there is something
romantic yet harshly concrete about an abandoned town. Dreams,
conflicts,
and losses still haunt what remains, so it’s no wonder we
call these locales
"ghost towns." A companion volume to his Ghost
Towns of Texas, More Ghost Towns of Texas
by T. Lindsay Baker
provides readers with comprehensive descriptions, histories, maps, and
detailed directions to the most interesting ghost towns in Texas not
already
covered in the first volume.
The
ninety-four towns described in
this book range from American Indian sites abandoned prior to the
arrival
of Europeans into North America to towns abandoned within the past
decade.
Baker’s own recent photographs of these abandoned towns are
complemented
by historic photographs of more prosperous times. Many of these
locations
have never before appeared in any ghost town guide.
Based on
hundreds of miles of travel
and fieldwork in abandoned towns all across Texas, More Ghost
Towns
of Texas lists sites throughout the state so that people from
anywhere
in Texas can reach a ghost town in a day’s trip. Baker has
included only
those sites located on public rights of way or with public access and
only
those ghost towns that have tangible remains so visitors will always
see
more than a simple historic plaque.
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More Ghost Towns
of Texas
by
T. Lindsay Baker
University
of Oklahoma
Press, 2005
Order
a copy.
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