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Title: Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns by Robert L. Brown ISBN: 0-87004-021-9 Publisher: Caxton Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1963 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Oldie but Goodie
Comment: Robert L. Brown is one of the pioneers of the rediscovery and the history of Colorado's Ghost Towns. While this book was written in the mid 60's and is woefully out of date as a current guide, it does offer a unique perspective because of it's age. You will find here photos of the way these towns looked at the time the book was originally published. As a student of Colorado history, I find these invaluable. Comparing the current state of these towns to Brown's photos and historical photos of these towns in their heydey allows you to appreciate their fragility and their rate of decline. Don't buy this book as a guide, but buy it for it's historical perspective.
Rating: 1
Summary: OLD, Archaic Data -Circa 1963-
Comment: Bobby Brown . . . in the summer of 1975 Mr. Brown's book was 12 years old, yet the data was still accurate and relevant. The deregulation of Gold in 1974 made a prospector out of me and many others. I was driven to pan tailings ponds, sleuce boxes, and every creek nearby to any minig activity. ...
Every weekend I took my family tent camping to the great Colorado outdoors, using Brown's neat book. We found apothecary bottles, gold, and tons of fun.
Since then, many 4X4 books have been written about jeep trails and Ghost Towns and their info, trails and data are up-to-date and accurate to a fault.
After more than 39 years, how many trails are obliterated? How many ghost towns are gone and how much of the data, four decades old is even accurate, or on the map any longer.
Mr. Brown, his book . . . and me too, are all really old now.
There comes a time when the new must prevail. The old is put aside for up to the minute, on time info. It is, after all, the age of IT, isn't it?
In it's day, Mr. Brown's book was the cat's meow. Yikes! Did I really use that old cliche? See what I mean?
You young people run the world now. Us old timers live for our memories; and Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns is a really nice memory. (Sigh) Nostalgia, ain't it great?
East Tin Cup, Russleville, Glory Hole, and many more . . . thanks Robert Brown! We love ya.
Rating: 4
Summary: Nostalgic fourwheeling
Comment: I bought this book while on vacation in Colorado. Other reviewers suggest that it is out of date and certainly there are more explicit trail guides to this State but it's a great piece of nostalgia. I love the pictures of flatfender CJs when they were almost new and ghost towns before the weather took away many of the buildings. It sits alongside other vintage Jeep books in my house.
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Title: Guide to Colorado Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails vol. 2 by Charles A. Wells ISBN: 0966497619 Publisher: Funtreks Inc Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Ghost Towns of Colorado: Your Guide to Colorado's Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns (Pictorial Discovery Guide) by Philip Varney, John Drew ISBN: 0896584186 Publisher: Voyageur Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Guide to Colorado Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails by Charles A. Wells ISBN: 0966497600 Publisher: Funtreks Inc Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Southern Colorado 4-Wheeling, The San Juans by Wayne W. Griffin, Warren H. Ohlrich ISBN: 188242607X Publisher: WHO Press Pub. Date: 07 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Central Colorado 4-Wheeling by Wayne W. Griffin, Warren H. Ohlrich, Curt Carpenter ISBN: 1882426010 Publisher: WHO Press Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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