books.google.com - In the past 150 years as many as two thousand Oklahoma hamlets, villages, towns, and even cities have bloomed and then died. Some have faded away, with not even a fallen chimney to mark their location. Others have left ghostly marks of their past--mounds of rubble grown over with grass or crumbling walls...http://books.google.com/books/about/Ghost_towns_of_Oklahoma.html?id=fSqmnpHFEF0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGhost towns of Oklahoma