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Wisconsin has over 200 lost, long ago, and nearly gone places. Why they began, why they faded or died encompasses many issues, many reasons. For Rhonda, her love of lost towns and long ago places began in northern Wisconsin, and in this book, she explores the stories and tales of Wisconsin's places of the past.
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"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...
4) Phantoms
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“Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen King
They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.
At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists....
They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.
At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists....
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Boxcar children volume 71
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1999.
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While visiting a recent purchase of Grandfather's, a ghost town in the Rocky Mountains, the Aldens encounter a mystery involving a run-down motel and a woman who may be a ghost.
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"Caleb York has a tin star, a blazing gun, and plenty of courage. All he needs is a little luck to deliver big justice ... On a lively night at the Victory saloon in Trinidad, New Mexico, Sheriff Caleb York interrupts his poker game to settle a minor dust-up that raises the stakes into major trouble. The wounded miscreant he ushers to the hoosegow spills the secret behind the mysterious disappearance of a certain stage coach. Bound for Denver, the...
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2008.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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While traveling down an overgrown track, Thomas finds an abandoned town and Sir Topham Hatt asks him and the other engines to fix it up, but Thomas runs into trouble and only Stanley can help him out.
10) Fallon: a novel
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Macon Fallon fights against a band of outlaws when they threaten to disrupt the community of Red Horse, a place where Fallon might like to call home.
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"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...
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2018.
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Having grown apart after learning that they cannot have children, Anthony and Marty Hirschler decide to move away from their Old Order Mennonite community to work for Brooke Spalding to convert an old ghost town into a resort community.
Anthony and Marty Hirschler are part of an Old Order Mennonite community in Pine Hill, Indiana. They have grown apart since a doctor confirmed they would never have children. Marty's childhood friend, Brooke Spalding,...
14) Hellsgrin
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2019.
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295 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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The lure of gold brings life back to the old ghost town of Basin City in an exciting story of five people who met in a deserted village under the shadow of the great glacier, Hellsgrin. Basin City might have been any ghost town, weathering away for fifty neglected years in the Colorado snow and sun, except that there was a legend about Basin City, and a prophecy. In 1909, the story went, a prospector, Alonzo Pike, had disappeared with thousands of...
15) Calico
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"There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert...The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge - and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for...
17) Wild West
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Magic tree house fact trackers volume 38
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[2018]
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123 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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What is a ghost town? Why do we call the Old West wild? What are cowboys? Who was Billy the Kid? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about the American West.
Jack and Annie learn more about the Wild West, including what a ghost town is, who Billy the Kid is, and why we call the Old West wild.
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[2014]
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148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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The Wisconsin Territory was designated in 1836; statehood came in 1848. By then, emigration into the region was in full swing. Farmers from the crowded Eastern seaboard seeking cheap land cleared away the forest; businessmen of all sorts located and developed towns. The solitude of the wilderness was interrupted, but these high-spirited pioneers bridged the way into Wisconsin's incredible future. All settlements, of course, did not mature to large,...
20) Ghost town gold
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[2019]
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320 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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Tucson Smith, Lullaby Joslin, and Stony Brooke had ridden into Prospect looking to buy some bulls from Marty Barrett when Tucson saw a pretty girl lose a piece of paper from her pocket. He rushed to pick it up to return it to her, but when Gus Brown tried to fight him for it, he determined to learn the story behind it and help the girl, Sabina Thornton, in any way he could. Marty told Tucson that 20 years ago, the Prospect Bank, owned by Jim Thornton,...
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