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The storyplot of the American mining frontier can be traced in the ghost cities - from the camps of California's forty-niners to the 20th-century ruins in the Nevada desert. They recognise an epoch of high excursion, of quick riches and quicker poverty, of gambling and gun-slinging and hell-raising. We who have seen way too many Western movies sometimes feel that the legends of the Wild West were invented by scriptwriters - however the ghost towns continue to be, and their battered ruins testify that the legends are true, that behind the large tales lies truth. Robert Silverberg has taken the ghost cities back to life in the rowdy splendor of the heyday - when eggs might cost three dollars apiece and a town's avenue be basically paved with silver, when a bundle of money could be produced in a week and lost in an evening. Record and travelers' tales are woven together with clarity and wit to create a lively bill of a remarkable era inside our history.
