Book Review: More Ghost Towns of Texas

Authors

David Wharton, University of Mississippi

Date of this Version

2004

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:4 (Fall 2004). Copyright © 2005 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

According to T. Lindsay Baker, a ghost town is "a town for which the reason for being no longer exists." The great expanse of Texas abounds with such places, and Baker claims to have identified more than a thousand of these sites and to have visited approximately three hundred. He described eighty-six abandoned places in Ghost Towns of Texas (1986), and now, with the publication of More Ghost Towns of Texas, he's written about ninety-four more, always with an eye to explaining how each one's "reason for being" faded away.