
Skidoo
A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West
Alex Capus(Author)
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus (Publisher)
Published on 20. March 2014
Book
Hardback
84 pages
978-1-907973-95-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the company of bank robbers and grave diggers, desperados and cunning Indians, brewers and failing inventors, Alex Capus visits the Wild West's ghost towns, where he descends into a disused silver mine and looks for traces left by the robbers who held-up stage coaches in Death Valley. Capus discovers stories that are a match for any Western: In Bodie the gravediggers used dynamite rather than shovels to blow holes in the ground; in the town of Skidoo, Hootch Simpson, a brawling bartender, was first hung by the mob, then by the law, before being beheaded during his autopsy; in Flagstaff, Capus finds that the legendary Route 66 was, for a time at least, a trail for Edward Fitzgerald Beale's 'Camel Corps'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
Dimensions
Height: 25 mm
Width: 15 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-907973-95-6 (9781907973956)
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E-Book
08/2014
Haus Publishing
€30.49
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Persons
Alex Capus is a Swiss-French novelist who writes in German. His best-selling novel Leon and Louise was longlisted for the German Book Prize in 2011. He is also the author of the novels A Matter of Time (2009) and Almost Like Spring, as well as the travelogue Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson and Treasure Island.
Content
Bodie 1 Panamint City 7 Skidoo 31 Salt Wells 45 Hawiku 55 Flagstaff 65