American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
by Hannah Nordhaus
Hardcover- $13.93

The award-winning journalist and author of The Beekeeper’s Lament attempts to uncover the truth about her great-great-grandmother, ...

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  "American Ghost" by Bak8382 (see profile) 10/25/15

This is more of a family history and less of a ghost story, but the history is interesting.

 
  "Mildly informative of the 1850-80s life of an arranged marriage depressedwife in the SW. " by loghouseJD (see profile) 07/08/16

But the overloading of spiritualism turns the book into meaningless meandering. The medical approach to treatment of depression would have been a good central theme. The ghost overlay just destroys the books credibility.

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