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Siebert, Diane

Rhyolite: The True Story of a Ghost Town

32 pp. | Clarion | April, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-618-09673-6 $$16.00
(2) K-3 Illustrated by David Frampton. Siebert's well-cadenced couplets trace the history of Rhyolite, Nevada, from the discovery of gold ore in 1904 through its brief heyday as a boomtown, with piped-in water, three newspapers, and an opera house. Frampton's woodcut illustrations emphasize the sunbaked landscape, while the book's final pages, which depict spectral townsfolk and a lone coyote, lend a haunting quality to this story of an Old West ghost town.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2003

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