The Mining Camps Speak

"The Sagstetters provide the reader with an enjoyable reading experience and, at the same time, offer a thought-provoking look at abandoned mining camps. The book's title offers insight into both the content of the book and the authors' philosophy of exploring ghost towns. They admonish the reader to look carefully at the details and the finer points of ghost towns...This book is intended to stimulate your imagination and your powers as an observer. It succeeds very well on both counts...The volume, The Mining Camps Speak, was an effort of love on the part of the authors. The book has appeal to a broad audience.

Ghost town hunters and explorers should find much in the Sagstetters' work that will aid them. But beyond that, both professional and avocational archaeologists will find the book to be a handy reference tool to help interpret mining sites recorded in the field. The Sagstetters' easily readable writing style is neither condescending nor overly technical, making the book a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience." -- Southwestern Lore: Journal of Colorado Archaeology. Reviewed by Steven F. Mehls, Western Historical Studies, Inc.