Ghost Towns of Arizona

“Arizona’s ghost towns exemplify man’s courage, tenacity, and perhaps even foolishness in his search for wealth. Inevitably by-products of the development of gold, silver, copper, and other mineral deposits in Arizona, some of these communities mushroomed overnight into a hogepodge of tents and makshift homes, while others developed over a period of years into tidy, well-planned townsites. Whatever their design, intent, or purpose, when their existence was no longer profitable they slipped into the category of thost towns. …

Finding ghost towns, the authors discovered, often involves searching for abscure sites in relatively inaccessible locations. In some places the old roads have disappeared althogether and old landmarks have vanished. Trails are often indistinct and sometimes entirely unmarked. Thus, foreseeing the inadequacy of modern highway maps for locating the ghost towns, the Shermans have included many specially drawn maps; and accurate township, range, and section co-ordinates place the towns at their correct locations. Using this information, today’s ‘explorer’ can locate the sites from standard base maps. …”