Conejos Library District

"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous "Fried Green Tomatoes." And as Bud often said of his childhood, "How lucky can you get?" But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...

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...

192 PAGES ILLUS. $20.00. LEARN ABOUT GHOST TOWNS AND THE CHARACTERS THAT LIVED IN THESE TOWN LONG AGO. ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT DUG FOR GOLD, COAL AND COPPER AND FOUGHT INDIANS AND DRANK WHISKEY. DN

This book describes eleven lost cities, discussing Atlantis; Lubaantun, Belize; Craco, Italy; Dunwich, England; Kolmanskop, Namibia; Pripyat, Ukraine; Troy, Present-Day Turkey; Hashima Island, Japan; San Zhi, Taiwan; Nan Madol, Micronesia; and Old Adaminaby, Australia.