This book is for people who have visited ghost town sites and were disappointed because there was “nothing left.” It takes up where other ghost town guidebooks end. Readers are guided around a site in Sherlock Holmes fashion and use techniques of historical sleuths to identify forgotten pieces of the past—even if all that’s left is rubble. Its techniques are valid in any western state, including Alaska. It truly is a whole new way to explore ghost towns. Anyone who has purchased ghost town books in the past might well want to add this book to their collection.

The long awaited sister book to The Mining Camps Speak is now available. Like its bestselling sibling, The Cliff Dwellings Speak empowers backcountry travelers to decipher remnants from the past, but the focus is the ancient cliff dwellings of the Greater American Southwest instead of ghost towns. This book will help visitors understand the ancient southwestern ruins. • Includes clues for interpreting cliff dwellings in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and even into northern Mexico. • Continues the much-loved tradition of picture Field Guides, this time for diagnostic architectural features. • All royalties will be donated to preservation causes. • Has been read by a dozen Southwestern archaeologists and eight of the modern Pueblos.