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Skidoo: A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West
By (author) Alex Capus, Translated by Simon Pare
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In the company of bank robbers and grave diggers, desperados and cunning Indians, brewers and failing inventors, Alex Capus visits the Wild West's ghost towns, where he descends into a disused silver mine and looks for traces left by the robbers who held-up stage coaches in Death Valley. Capus discovers stories that are a match for any Western: In Bodie the gravediggers used dynamite rather than shovels to blow holes in the ground; in the town of Skidoo, Hootch Simpson, a brawling bartender, was first hung by the mob, then by the law, before being beheaded during his autopsy; in Flagstaff, Capus finds that the legendary Route 66 was, for a time at least, a trail for Edward Fitzgerald Beale's 'Camel Corps'.
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Publisher | The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
Published date | 20 Mar 2014
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 84
Dimensions | 25 x 15 x 2mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 680g
ISBN | 978-1-9079-7395-6
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BISAC | travel / united states / west / general
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