Product Description
by Daniel C. Fitzgerald (Author)
This is the third volume in the original Ghost Towns of Kansas series. Originally published in 1982, this 28th anniversary reissue documents the histories of a hundred exciting Kansas ghost towns that grew, prospered, and died across the state. These hundred ghost town histories are organized by topic, such as boom towns, mining towns, free state/ pro-slavery towns, county seat towns, and railroad towns. This series won numerous awards and accolades, including several news emmys. This third volume has been lovingly edited and restored with a new foreword by the author.
Author Biography
Daniel C. Fitzgerald is a Kansas historian and columnist best known as the author of a six volume set on Kansas ghost towns. The first volume was released in 1976, and the last volume was just released in 2009. He is also the author of a very successful history of Kansas tornadoes, entitled Sound and Fury. His ghost towns series has won numerous awards and one of his towns, Neosho Falls, was the subject of a rock album by the band Kansas. Fitzgerald, a Kansas native, currently resides in Palm Harbor, Florida.