Jump to content

User:Transity/Ghost towns

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Home Talk Contribs Edit Statistics Gallery eMail User Subpages


This page is a user sandbox of Transity.
Please do not edit this page unless you have been asked to do so by this user, or unless you believe something on this page violates Wikipedia policies.


   Launchpad        Ghost Towns Sandbox        Mixology Sandbox        NPS Sandbox        Alternative Medicine Sandbox        Public Watchlists        Vandalism      

Arizona Ghost Town Watchlist

[edit]
Expand to see watchlist
List of abbreviations (help):
D
Edit made at Wikidata
r
Edit flagged by ORES
N
New page
m
Minor edit
b
Bot edit
(±123)
Page byte size change

28 December 2024

27 December 2024

25 December 2024

23 December 2024

22 December 2024

Articles

[edit]

Task List

[edit]
Expand to see open tasks
Create
Expand
Improve
  • Get Harshaw, Arizona to Good Article status (currently B-class)
    • Requested Peer Review on 2009-10-07.
    • New (brief) reference on Harshaw to check [1]
    • New (long) mining ref to check [2]
    • Check WPA source from Depression Era.
    • Today in Arizona: link problem, might keep an eye on this link.
  • Get Fairbank, Arizona, Contention City, Arizona, and Swansea, Arizona to C-Class (all are Start-Class today, but close).
    • Fairbank: add Varney, search for other refs on Google Books, Google News, add map.
    • Contention City: search for other refs on Google Books, Google News, add map.
    • Swansea: search for other refs on Google Books, Google News, add map.
  • Get Charleston, Arizona to B-Class (C-Class today)
    • Charleston: search for other refs on Google Books, Google News.

Completed tasks

[edit]
Expand to see completed tasks

Tools

[edit]

Web Resources

[edit]
Expand to see web resources
Data
Photos (PD)
Other sources

Books

[edit]
Expand to see book citations
Used Books
  • Population History of Western U.S. Cities & Towns, 1850-1990.
    • <ref name="moffat">{{cite book |last=Moffat |first=Riley |title=Population History of Western U.S. Cities and Towns, 1850-1990 |publisher=Scarecrow Press, Inc. |location=Lanham, Maryland |date=1996 |pages=9-17 |isbn=0810830337 |accessdate=2009-09-01}}</ref>
  • Ghost Towns of Arizona (Sherman)
    • <ref name="sherman">{{cite book |last=Sherman |first=James E. |coauthors=Barbara H. Sherman |title=Ghost Towns of Arizona |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |date=1969 |edition=First |pages=26-29 |chapter=Charleston |isbn=0806108436 |accessdate=2009-07-15}}</ref>
  • Arizona Ghost Towns and Mining Camps (Varney)
    • <ref name="varney">{{cite book |last=Varney |first=Philip |title=Arizona Ghost Towns and Mining Camps: A Travel Guide to History |editor=Stieve, Robert |publisher=Arizona Highways Books |location=Phoenix, Arizona |date=April, 2005 |edition=10th |pages=39 |chapter=Mohave Ghosts |isbn=1932082468 |accessdate=2009-09-11}}</ref>
  • Backcountry Adventures Arizona
    • <ref name="backcountry">{{cite book |last=Massey |first=Peter |coauthors=Wilson, Jeanne |title=Backcountry Adventures Arizona: The Ultimate Guide to the Arizona Backcountry for Anyone With a Sport Utility Vehicle |publisher=Adler Publishing Co |date=April 24, 2006 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=K5duDoiPh30C&lpg=PA27&dq=castle%20dome%20arizona&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false |chapter=Along the Trail |pages=27-28 |isbn=1930193289 |accessdate=2009-09-08}}</ref>
  • Urbanism and empire in the Far West, 1840-1890
    • <ref name="urbanism">{{cite book |last=Moehring |first=Eugene P. |title=Urbanism and empire in the Far West, 1840-1890 |publisher=University of Nevada Press |date=February 1, 2004 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=cyahw6pinKMC&lpg=PA286&dq=castle%20dome%20arizona&lr=&pg=PA286#v=onepage&q=&f=false |pages=285-286 |isbn=0874175658 |accessdate=2009-09-08}}</ref>
  • The resources of Arizona
    • <ref name="resources-az">{{cite book |last=Hamilton |first=Patrick |title=The resources of Arizona: Its mineral, farming, and grazing lands, towns, and mining camps, its rivers, mountains, plains, and mesas, with a brief summary ... information concerning the territory |publisher=A.L. Bancroft & Co., printers |location=Arizona |date=1883 |edition=2nd |pages=72 |chapter=Mining Resources |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=2H4UAAAAYAAJ&dq=castle%20dome%20arizona&lr=&pg=PA72#v=onepage&q=castle%20dome%20arizona&f=false |accessdate=2009-09-08}}</ref>
  • Arizona Curiosities
    • <ref name="azcuriosities">{{cite book |last=Lowe |first=Sam |title=Arizona Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff |publisher=Globe Pequot |date=April 1, 2007 |edition=2nd |pages=226 |chapter=Southwest Arizona |isbn=0762741147 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Vv4FAzcxRd8C&lpg=PA226&dq=castle%20dome%20arizona&pg=PA226#v=onepage&q=&f=false |accessdate=2009-09-09}}</ref>
Other Books
[edit]
Harshaw Resources
Other Sources
Contention City Resources
Resources Used
Resources Not Used
Charleston Resources
Unused Sources
  • New source Charleston, Arizona: A Documentary Reconstruction, Richard W. Fulton and Conrad J. Bahre, Arizona and the West, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring, 1967), pp. 41-64, Journal of the Southwest
Sources Already Used
Other article Resources




USGS Map Work

[edit]

Silver Reef

[edit]
  • [3]: "During 1875-80 Silver Reef, northwest of Leeds, was a booming mining town, and Wells Fargo reportedly shipped more than $8,000,000 in bullion from the mines there."

Harshaw, Arizona

[edit]
Names
  • Hermosa
  • Hardshell
  • Flux: chatman, named for the use of the rock as flux in processing Mowry ore and other mines.
  • Trench
  • Coronado
  • Patagonia

References

[edit]