Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West

Gordon MorrisBakken; Alexandra Kindell

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Mining Ghost Towns

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Gordon Morris Bakken
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In:Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West
Chapter DOI:https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412952439
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Mining ghost towns, today chiefly tourist attractions throughout the West, are the haunting reminders of boom and bust periods of former prosperity. A ghost town is a town or community that once had a commercial or population center and is either ...

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  Bakken, G. M., & Kindell, A. (2006). Mining ghost towns. In Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West (Vol. 2, pp. 453-454). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412952439
  
  Bakken, Gordon M., and Alexandra Kindell. "Mining Ghost Towns." In Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West, edited by Bakken, Gordon Morris., and Alexandra Kindell, 453-54. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2006. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412952439.
  
  Bakken, G. M. and Kindell, A. 2006. Mining Ghost Towns. In: Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West. Gordon M. Bakken and Alexandra Kindell Editors, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 453-454 Available at: <https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412952439> [Accessed 8 Dec 2023].
  
  Bakken, Gordon M. and Alexandra Kindell. "Mining Ghost Towns." Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West. Edited by Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2006, pp. 453-54. Sage Knowledge, doi: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412952439.
  
  Bakken, Gordon M., and Alexandra Kindell. Mining ghost towns. In Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West. Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2006: 453-454. doi:10.4135/9781412952439
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