title: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Southern Nevada (Images of America)
author:  Shawn Hall 
description: Shawn Hall caught ghost-town fever in 1979 and has been writing books on Nevada's ghost towns ever since. Hall has also been the head of a number of museums throughout the state that have received many awards under his tutelage. He lives in Tonopah with his daughter Heather, who in her 15 years has been on more ghost-town trips than she ever wanted.
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  # **GHOST TOWNS  
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  Text by Jim Hinckley  
  Photography by Kerrick James
  
  
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  Sun lights the front of a stone building in Afton, Oklahoma.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Page 1: Route 66 in Ludlow, California.
  
  
  Page 2: Ruins in Jericho, Texas.
  
  
  Page 3: Windswept clouds over a vintage Packard in Endee, New Mexico.
  
  
  Page 4: A gas pump in Funks Grove, Illinois.
  
  
  Opposite: A vintage car parked at Hackberry General Store in Arizona.
  
  
  Page 11: Faded memories and faded signs are the silent monuments in Newkirk,
  New Mexico.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in 2011 by Voyageur Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing
  Company,  
  400 First Avenue North, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA
  