Ghost Towns of the Upper Mojave Desert

Adapted from; Ghost Towns of the Upper Mojave Desert
Volume I: San Bernardino County (Preliminary draft: text only)
by Alan Hensher and Larry M. Vredenburgh - (c) 1986

WATERMAN, CALICO, BISMARCK

Oro Grande and Waterman
The Discovery of the Calico Mines
The Camp
The Town
Roads & Rails
Rugged Individualists
The Calico Print
Bismarck Camp
Mines & Mills
Town Life
The Decline
Daggett
Calico: Rally & Collapse

PROVIDENCE

MESCAL
BAGDAD and the ORANGE BLOSSOM MINE
VANDERBILT
MANVEL (BARNWELL)
BORATE AND MARION
MINNEOLA

DALE

COLUMBIA MINE
COPPER CITY
COOLGARDIE
STEDMAN (CAMP ROCHESTER)
ATOLIA
THE VONTRIGGER CAMPS
THE CIMA DISTRICT
Standard Camp, Toegl city, Camp Dawson

THE CRACKERJACK DISTRICT
Crackerjack, Avawatz, and Copper City (II)

SILVER LAKE
GOLD PARK AND PINON CAMPS
HART
THE LANFAIR VALLEY
Lanfair, Ledge (Maruba), Dunbar

BAXTER
KINGSTON
CHUBBUCK
CAMPS IN BRIEF
INDEX

Intro:: Nature:: Map:: Parks:: Points of Interest:: Ghosts & Gold:: Communities:: Roads & Trails:: People & History:: BLOG:: Weather:: :?:: glossary

Digital-Desert : Mojave Desert

Country Life Realty
Wrightwood, Ca.

Mountain Hardware
Wrightwood, Ca.

Canyon Cartography

G.A. Mercantile

Grizzly Cafe
Family Dining

Abraxas Engineering
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