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Scattered across the American West are hundreds of abandoned ghost towns each with their own particular story to tell. The ghost town of Aurora, Nevada, is no exception. Looking out over the deserted landscape today, it's hard to imagine that during the Civil War this remote corner of western Nevada was home to over five thousand people living in a thousand buildings made of wood and locally manufactured brick. This new book is about a promising young city at the peak of her prosperity and includes descriptions and firsthand accounts of Aurora's buildings, businesses, organizations, schools, government, mines, newspapers, and residents. The town's more interesting and important buildings and streets have been noted on a map and historic photograph, and are indexed to detailed descriptions in the book's directory. An annotated list of the thousands of men and women who once called Aurora home during the early 1860s has also been included. Even though there are no buildings left to see today, Aurora's historic importance was recognized in 1974 when the entire town site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.