Maps very poor - almost useless

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	• Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico James E. Sherman, Barbara H. Sherman University of Oklahoma Press, 1980 - 270 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An excellent guide

This is an excellent ghost town book and essential for anyone hunting ghosts in New Mexico. Sites are listed alphabetically; when its post office was in existence is also given. Then each site is keyed to a map found in the back of the book; the maps are fairly detailed and if used with recent topo maps (such as DeLorme) quite useful. Most of these townsites should be able to be found without too much difficulty. Detailed information about each place is also related by Sherman. Finally there are a ton of photographs (some historical, most recent) included. If you can't get out into the field to track any of these places down, it's still a great book for armchair travellers. Very informative no matter how you look at it.

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Maps very poor - almost useless - and out of date

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true, as mentioned above, but more importantly, the sketchy maps (in the back, not with each entry) have no detail and out of date or road numbers/names which will make finding many of the sites impossible. Good, old B&W photos, though.

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Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of New Mexico

This is a very interesting and entertaining book. It fills in the blanks on areas that I have seen and/or heard about. The stories that are included are very entertaining as a bonus. Really fun reading.

A bit dated, but still good

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 Unfortunately, it suffers from being a bit outdated, having been written before the population explosion in the southwest during the past 20 years.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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Good book -- but information is out of date

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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