Skidoo : A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of the American West
Publicat de: The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
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In the company of bank robbers and grave diggers, desperados and cunning Indians, brewers and failing inventors, Alex Capus visits the Wild West's ghost towns, where he descends into a disused silver mine and looks for traces left by the robbers who held-up stage coaches in Death Valley. Capus discovers stories that are a match for any Western: In Bodie the gravediggers used dynamite rather than shovels to blow holes in the ground; in the town of Skidoo, Hootch Simpson, a brawling bartender, was first hung by the mob, then by the law, before being beheaded during his autopsy; in Flagstaff, Capus finds that the legendary Route 66 was, for a time at least, a trail for Edward Fitzgerald Beale's 'Camel Corps'.
General | |
Anul | 2014 |
Dimensiuni | H: 16.5cm | l: 12.4cm |
Editura | The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus |
ISBN | 9781907973956 |
Limba | Engleza |
Pagini | 84 |
Format | Hardcover |
Traducator | John Brownjohn |
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