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Summary: Great information--creates a perfect nostalgia...
Review: If you're interested in the camps of early New Mexico...it's where to get the info. It's very accurate & has nice pictures....
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Summary: Great information--creates a perfect nostalgia...
Review: If you're interested in the camps of early New Mexico...it's where to get the info. It's very accurate & has nice pictures....
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Summary: Good book -- but information is out of date
Review: The history in this book is great and it's full of pictures; however, many are no longer accurate. The book was published in 1975 and much of what used to be there is no longer there and/or the properties are inaccessable because they are on private lands.
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Summary: Good book -- but information is out of date
Review: The history in this book is great and it's full of pictures; however, many are no longer accurate. The book was published in 1975 and much of what used to be there is no longer there and/or the properties are inaccessable because they are on private lands.
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Summary: Maps very poor - almost useless - and out of date
Review: The info may be dated, true, as mentioned above, but more importantly, the sketchy maps (in the back, not with each entry) have no detail and out of date or <no> road numbers/names which will make finding many of the sites impossible. Good, old B&W photos, though.
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Summary: Interesting Reading and Great Resource
Review: This book is filled with pictures. It is a great book to read the history of the ghost towns and mining camps that can be found in NM. The authors have obviously done a lot of research and this results in a book that is informative, but fun to read. I particularly like how the authors have told various stories that are associated with each town. I find this to be a very accurate book also.
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Summary: A bit dated, but still good
Review: This well-researched book is an old standard and well worth owning. Unfortunately, it suffers from being a bit outdated, having been written before the population explosion in the southwest during the past 20 years. The descriptions are frequently of remains and ruins no longer in existence, plundered, or merely part of new, cutesy 'discovered' communities of gingerbread and bricabrack. A lot of the ghost towns, I might have said, have been reincarnated. Even so, there's not a better book anywhere about the ghost towns of New Mexico as they existed 20-30 years ago.
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Summary: A bit dated, but still good
Review: This well-researched book is an old standard and well worth owning. Unfortunately, it suffers from being a bit outdated, having been written before the population explosion in the southwest during the past 20 years. The descriptions are frequently of remains and ruins no longer in existence, plundered, or merely part of new, cutesy 'discovered' communities of gingerbread and bricabrack. A lot of the ghost towns, I might have said, have been reincarnated. Even so, there's not a better book anywhere about the ghost towns of New Mexico as they existed 20-30 years ago.
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