Alex Capus: Skidoo (Buchtrailer)
Alex Capus
Skidoo
Details about the book
A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the Wild West
- date of publication: 30.07.2012
- 80 Pages
- Hanser Verlag
- hardcover
- ISBN 978-3-446-24084-1
- Deutschland: 12,00 €
- Österreich: 12,40 €
Whenever Alex Capus goes travelling, he fetches up in one-horse settlements that remind him of his hometown, Olten. His trip to the Wild West is no exception: he spends his nights in ghost towns, goes down abandoned silver mines and scours Death Valley for traces of stagecoach robbers. And he chances on the most outlandish stories: in Bodie, gravediggers were forced to blast out plots with dynamite; in Skidoo, Hootch Simpson was hanged twice before he was beheaded; and in Tusaya, the Zuni Indians led the Spanish invaders a merry dance. The last leg of his voyage takes the author to Flagstaff, Arizona, where he discovers that the legendary Route 66 is little more than an old camel track.
Foreign Sales
Italy (EDT), UK / USA (Haus Publishing)