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What is Ghosts Of The Colorado Plains about?

Since the second quarter of the nineteenth century, changing conditions have built and emptied small and large towns across the Colorado plain. At the time when Denver was little more than an overpopulated campsite along Cherry Creek there were numerous other settlements to the east and south, each with its own dreams of growth, gold or silver strikes, railroad connections, and rising influence over the surrounding territory. In Ghosts of the Colorado Plains , Eberhart traces some 150 of these ill-fated settlements, providing accounts of their birth, peak activity, and ultimate demise. As early trapping, mining, cattle, farming, and transportation industries brought successive waves of easterners into the territory, they created some of the most colorful communities of their time. The trail towns Boston and Trail City were reputed to be two of the roughest towns in the entire west. Real estate schemers and promoters offered dreams of civilization and respectability in the cow towns. Elsewhere, the stage stations, side of the road settlements, and farm centers arose out of the basic necessities of commerce and from a simple desire of far-flung settlers, trappers, and others for a pl

Author

Eberhart, Perry.

Publisher

Swallow Press; Swallow Press/Ohio University Press

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804008327

Subjects

History, Humanities