Skidoo : A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West Hardback
by Alex Capus
Part of the Armchair Traveller series
Hardback
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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'.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:84 pages
- Publisher:The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
- Publication Date:20/03/2014
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- ISBN:9781907973956
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Unavailable
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:84 pages
- Publisher:The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
- Publication Date:20/03/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781907973956
