Gamblers, gold rushes and ghosts-the Old West had it all. Join Dan Asfar as he unravels the haunted histories of some of America's most infamous gunslingers, lawmen and frontiersmen, as well as the forts, prisons and saloons where the region's recklessness found its truest expression. The phantom rider of the Pony Express, the West's legendary mail service, races past Hollenberg Station in Kansas-the only stopover still located on its original site, Ordered to destroy the Alamo, Mexican soldiers are frozen in their tracks by six imposing apparitions, each armed with a flaming saber, In the Canadian Rockies, foolhardy prospectors search for the Lost Lemon Mine and its legendary riches, The spirit of a Chinese maid, who committed suicide long ago, haunts Cain House in Bodie, California-and of America's best-preserved ghost towns, Determined to find her missing children, the ghost of a sorrowful mother wanders around historic Fort Leavenworth, Cree warriors in Alberta refuse to heed the warning of a mysterious seer, whose vision comes true after her tragic death, The ghost of Seth Bullock, a prominent lawman and entrepreneur, lends a helping hand at his historic hotel in Deadwood, South Dakota, Near Cripple Creek in Colorado, miners are terrified by the voices of the ferocious creatures they call the "Tommyknockers." Book jacket.