User:Transity/Ghost towns

= Arizona Ghost Town Watchlist =

= Articles =

Task List

 * Create
 * Create Mowry, Arizona, add article to Mowry dab page. (see work in progress)
 * Create Duquesne, Arizona (very close to Washington Camp, Arizona) (may be closed per here)
 * Create articles for Alto, Arizona, Salero, Arizona.


 * Expand
 * Expand Gleeson, Arizona (redirect from Turquoise, Arizona already added).
 * Expand stubs for Total Wreck, Arizona, Helvetia, Arizona, Tip Top, Arizona, Pinal City, Arizona, La Paz, Arizona, Tres Alamos, Arizona, McMillenville, Arizona.
 * Expand List of ghost towns in Arizona to include basic information on all towns (in progress).
 * Add infoboxes with coordinates to all Arizona Ghost towns (in progress).


 * Improve
 * Get Harshaw, Arizona to Good Article status (currently B-class)
 * Requested Peer Review on 2009-10-07.
 * New (brief) reference on Harshaw to check
 * New (long) mining ref to check
 * Check WPA source from Depression Era.
 * Today in Arizona: link problem, might keep an eye on this link.
 * Get Fairbank, Arizona, Contention City, Arizona, and Swansea, Arizona to C-Class (all are Start-Class today, but close).
 * Fairbank: add Varney, search for other refs on Google Books, Google News, add map.
 * Contention City: search for other refs on Google Books, Google News, add map.
 * Swansea: search for other refs on Google Books, Google News, add map.
 * Get Charleston, Arizona to B-Class (C-Class today)
 * Charleston: search for other refs on Google Books, Google News.

Completed tasks

 * Harshaw, Arizona: Created page, wrote article, took and uploaded two recent photos, scanned and uploaded two historical photos, uploaded two historical maps, created Commons gallery.
 * Charleston, Arizona: Expanded from unreferenced stub, scanned and uploaded historical photos with higher resolutions, created Commons gallery, created redirect from Millville, Arizona.
 * Fairbank, Arizona: Expanded from stub, took and uploaded two recent photos and scanned and uploaded one historical photo.
 * Contention City, Arizona: Expanded from unreferenced stub, scanned and uploaded three historical photos, created Commons gallery.
 * Tiger, Arizona: Expanded from small stub, created redirect from Schultz, Arizona.
 * Swansea, Arizona: Expanded from unreferenced stub, uploaded one historical photo and one recent photo.
 * Castle Dome Landing, Arizona: Expanded from redirect to stub about Castle Dome Mountains, uploaded two historical photos, uploaded historical map, created redirect from Castle Dome City, Arizona.
 * Mohave City, Arizona: Expanded from stub.

= Tools =

Web Resources

 * Data
 * USGS Geographic Names Information System
 * USGS database
 * Search GNIS names by county - easier to find name variations, etc.
 * MineDat
 * Infomine
 * USGenWeb Main page (and text version for AZ)
 * Search Bureau of Land Management
 * AZHS Online Catalog Search]
 * AZHS Links
 * AZHS Online Catalog Search]
 * AZHS Links


 * Photos (PD)
 * USGS Photographic library
 * Search Bureau of Land Management


 * Other sources
 * Az State Library Photo Search
 * Ghost Town Trails - Cochise County, Arizona
 * Ghosttowns.com
 * Legends of America
 * Legends of America, more
 * Visual Record
 * Photos of Ghost Towns
 * Ghost town info, speculation
 * AZ Ghost Town photos
 * More Ghost Town photos
 * Old West info on ghost towns

Books

 * Used Books


 * Population History of Western U.S. Cities & Towns, 1850-1990.


 * Ghost Towns of Arizona (Sherman)


 * Arizona Ghost Towns and Mining Camps (Varney)


 * Backcountry Adventures Arizona


 * Urbanism and empire in the Far West, 1840-1890


 * The resources of Arizona


 * Arizona Curiosities


 * Other Books
 * Around Tombstone, Chapter on Charleston (accessible in Amazon)

Resources for other articles

 * Other Sources
 * Scholarly paper on Harshaw
 * Unused source: Book Excerpt on Hardshell Mine small mention


 * Resources Used
 * Account and pictures of Contention City
 * Ike tried to have the Earps tried in Contention City after this guy's ruling in their favor
 * John Slaughter information, some about Contention
 * Ghost town trails entry on Contention
 * BLM brief mention


 * Resources Not Used
 * Legends of America - entry that mentions Contention briefly
 * Legends of America - entry that mentions Contention briefly
 * Legends of America - entry that mentions Contention briefly
 * Legends of America - entry that mentions Contention briefly
 * Legends of America - entry that mentions Contention briefly
 * Legends of America - entry that mentions Contention briefly


 * Unused Sources
 * New source Charleston, Arizona: A Documentary Reconstruction, Richard W. Fulton and Conrad J. Bahre, Arizona and the West, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring, 1967), pp. 41-64, Journal of the Southwest


 * Need current/recent photo of remains
 * Order Ghost Town issue of journal for $10


 * Sources Already Used
 * "Charleston" entry at GhostTowns.com
 * "Charleston" entry at clantongang.com
 * Charleston, Arizona History
 * Charleston at Ghost Town Trails
 * Charleston at BLM
 * San Pedro RNC Trail at BLM
 * San Pedro RNCA at BLM
 * Cultural Resources at BLM
 * James Burnett Bio, Justice of the Peace in Charleston
 * Burnett Obit
 * Area Stories about Charleston people


 * George Walker House in Paradise, Arizona (unsourced info, was some copy/paste)
 * Pinal newspaper, The Drill
 * USGS info for region, source of geological map.
 * All area mines, includes Mowry, mention of Charleston

USGS Map Work

 * harshaw usgs map
 * wranglers roost usgs map

Silver Reef

 * : "During 1875-80 Silver Reef, northwest of Leeds, was a booming mining town, and Wells Fargo reportedly shipped more than $8,000,000 in bullion from the mines there."

Harshaw, Arizona

 * Names
 * Hermosa
 * Hardshell
 * Flux: chatman, named for the use of the rock as flux in processing Mowry ore and other mines.
 * Trench
 * Coronado
 * Patagonia