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Introduction 1. Arizona Daily Star, 10 Aug. 1884. 2. For example, Malcolm J. Rohrbough devotes three hundred pages of Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879–1893 to the history of that camp up to the silver panic of 1893, and a ten-page epilogue to the bust period from 1893 to the 1930s. Likewise, Robert L. Spude’s twenty-two-page article on its boom, “Swansea, Arizona: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Copper Camp,” ends with one paragraph on the town’s decline. Neither of these authors has been singled out because he did something unusual. Dozens of other examples would have served as well. 3. Arizona Weekly Citizen, 24 July 1886. In the interests of clarity, the spelling, capitalization, and punctuation in all quotations used in this book have been modernized. In no case have these changes altered meaning. 4. Jerome Chamber of Commerce News Bulletin, 24 Dec. 1935. Most sources place Jerome’s total value of product at around $900 million. 5. Page Smith, As a City upon a Hill: The Town in American History, 33; Thomas J. Noel, Paul F. Mahoney, and Richard E. Stevens, Historical Atlas of Colorado, pl. 23; Patricia Nelson Limerick, “Haunted by Rhyolite: Learning from the Landscape of Failure,” 21. The search for books on nonmining ghost towns is not completely hopeless. The ghost town guides to Kansas, Texas, and the PaciWc Northwest, cited in the following notes, deal mainly with agricultural, forestry, notes and transportation ghost towns, though coal, oil, and other types of mining get their fair share of attention. The ghost town guides themselves are an interesting study. They are uniform in style and content, even in their titles. These books usually consist of brief biographies of the towns, in alphabetical order, with an accompanying photograph of the boom days or of the present site. The biographies discuss the foundation and growth of the new community and prominent citizens or notorious crimes, if any, and perhaps conclude with a paragraph explaining why the town busted. Limerick is correct in her observation that analysis, of either booms or busts, is not their strength. 6. E. Gorton Covington, “SaVord Flared but BrieXy”; David Rich Lewis, “La Plata, 1891–93: Boom, Bust, and Controversy,” 5–21; Rex Myers, “Boom and Bust: Montana’s Legacy of High Hopes . . . and Lost Dreams.” 7. Michael Malone, “The Collapse of Western Metal Mining: An Historical Epitaph”; Sandra Dallas, Colorado and Utah Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, 139; Donald C. Miller, Ghost Towns of Nevada, 145; Bruce Ramsey, Ghost Towns of British Columbia, 215–26; Raye Carleson Ringholtz, Uranium Frenzy: Boom and Bust on the Colorado Plateau. 8. Roger M. Olien and Diane D. Olien, Oil Booms: Social Change in Five Texas Towns; Daniel Fitzgerald, Ghost Towns of Kansas: A Traveler’s Guide, 154; John S. Spratt Sr., Thurber, Texas: The Life and Death of a Company Coal Town; Donald C. Miller, Ghost Towns of Wyoming, 13, 87; T. Lindsay Baker, Ghost Towns of Texas, 96; James E. Sherman and Barbara H. Sherman, Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico, 90, 221; Donald C. Miller, Ghost Towns of Idaho, 72; Donald C. Miller, Ghost Towns of Montana, 169; personal observations and conversations with mining historian David Wolff. 9. Donald Worster, Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West; Robert R. Dykstra, The Cattle Towns; Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s; R. Myers, “Boom and Bust”; Baker, Ghost Towns of Texas, 36, 73; D. Fitzgerald, Ghost Towns of Kansas, 152, 232, 237; Nancy Burns, “The Collapse of Small Towns on the Great Plains: A Bibliography,” 23; personal observations. 10. William G. Robbins, Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850–1986; Ramsey, Ghost Towns of British Columbia, 140–41; personal knowledge derived from employment in the Alaskan Wshing industry, summer 1993. 11. D. Fitzgerald, Ghost Towns of Kansas, 31–33, 114; Baker, Ghost Towns of Texas, 114, 116; D. C. Miller, Ghost Towns of Idaho, 36; Ramsey, Ghost Towns of British Columbia, 25; D. C. Miller, Ghost Towns of Wyoming, 8; James E. Sherman and Barbara H. Sherman, Ghost Towns of Arizona, 125; D. C. Miller, Ghost Towns 284 Notes to Pages 4–6 [18.213.110.162] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:29 GMT) of Nevada, 125; Donald C. Miller, Ghost Towns of California, 86; Dykstra, The Cattle Towns, 51–53; Norman D. Weis, Ghost Towns of the Northwest, 38; Sherman and Sherman, Ghost Towns of...