New York: Macmillan, 1937. Hardcover - The story of the Death Valley silver bonanza - thought to be "greater than the Comstock," it turned out to be nothing more than a minor sideshow in the 1870s silver age. Photographs, index. xiv, 320 pp. Index. Illustrated endpapers.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1992.). Winner of the Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Poet and professor Richard Shelton first came to southeastern Arizona in the 1950s as a young soldier stationed at Fort Huachuca, and after his discharge, he got married and began teaching in nearby Bisbee. This book interweaves his memories of those early days, his love and knowledge of the Southwestern deserts, and the region's natural and human history - from Tombstone, "the town too tough to die," to ghost towns and on Bisbee itself. Notes, suggested reading. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-816512892.

Toronto: Collins, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in a lonely ghost town in the mountains of British Columbia. ISBN: 0-00-2226421.