Ghost Towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains

by John V. Young

A fascinating human and cultural history of the Santa Cruz Mountains
from 1850 to the middle of the 20th century.

• The lives of the early settlers and their descendants.

• A narrow-gauge railroad from Los Gatos to Santa Cruz that
  operated from 1880 to 1940.

• Mining, logging, and grizzly bears.

• Tales of Patchen, Burrell, Austrian Gulch and Germantown, White Wash Alley, Lexington, Alma, Glenwood, Ben Lomond, New Almaden, and more.
  
  Illustrated with historic photographs and a special map of the region, Ghost Towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains is an intriguing and evocative look at a bygone era.

Trade paperback, 160 pages,
5.5 x 8.5, map, illustrated, index.
(Earlier editions published
in 1979 and 1984).
ISBN: 0-944220-12-6
$14.95