This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories That Shape America

This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories That Shape America - Hardcover

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This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories That Shape America - Hardcover

This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories That Shape America - Hardcover

by Betsy Gaines Quammen
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Book Overview

Why do humans need ghosts? And what do our ghosts have to teach us?


"Strikingly original."

--LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) ★

This Haunted Land investigates some of America's most enduring legends and uncovers how ghost stories can illuminate some of the most unsettling parts of history. With curiosity, a touch of skepticism, and an open-hearted willingness to learn from the living and the dead, Betsy Gaines Quammen takes readers on a journey into haunted towns, forgotten lives, and abandoned places. From a once-booming uranium mining community in Colorado to a fort on the coast of Florida that predates the United States itself, this riveting exploration of memory, mourning, folklore, and social anxiety shows that politicized efforts to rewrite history can only be defeated by bearing witness to the specters of the past.
ISBN9798890920478
Author Betsy Gaines Quammen
PublisherTorrey House Press
GenreHistory and Education
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages250
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories That Shape America - Hardcover

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About Betsy Gaines Quammen

BETSY GAINES QUAMMEN is a historian and conservationist. She received a doctorate in Environmental History from Montana State University in 2017, her dissertation focusing on Mormon settlement and public land conflicts. After college in Colorado, caretaking for a bed and breakfast in Mosier, Oregon, and serving breakfasts at a cafe in Kanab, Utah, Betsy has settled in Bozeman, Montana, where she now lives with her husband, writer David Quammen, three huge dogs, an overweight cat, and a pretty big python named Boots.

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