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Nebraska
Crookston- A
Semi-Ghost Town
Nebraska Forts
Nevada
Delamar - The
Widow Maker
Death Valley Ghost Towns
Eldorado Canyon
- Lawlessness on the Colorado River
Goldfield -
Queen of the Mining Camps
Gold Point -
Waxing & Waning Through Time
Goodsprings,
- Still Kicking the Desert Dust
Rhyolite -
Little More Than a Memory
Silver City and Gold Hill
- Mining the Comstock Lode
Tybo - Plight of
the Chinese
Virginia City and the Comstock Lode
New Mexico
Ancho - Returning
to Nature
Chloride - Center of the Apache Mining
District
Colfax - An Unsuccessful Prospect
The Ghosts of
Dawson
Dawson Vintage Photographs
Elizabethtown -
Gone But Not Forgotten
Elizabethtown Vintage Photographs
Endee to San Jon
- Ghostly Stretch of 66
Fort Union - Protecting the Santa Fe Trail
Ghosts Beyond Tucumcari, New Mexico
Montoya
Newkirk
Cuervo
Glenrio - A
Route 66 Casualty
Golden
Indian Country Ghost Towns
Budville
Cubero
McCartys
San Fidel
Jicarilla - Still Gold in Them Thar Hills
Lincoln - Wild Wild West Frozen in Time
McKinley
County Ghosts
Clarkville
Gamerco
Heaton
Mentmore
Navajo
Mogollon -
Surviving All Odds
Monticello Canyon Ghost Towns - Placita and Monticello
New Mexico Forts
Shakespeare - Born Again and Again
Steins - A Railroad Ghost
Town
Turquoise
Trail Scenic Byway
Golden, New
Mexico Has Seen Better Days
Los Cerrillos
- 2,000 Years of History
Madrid - A Ghost
Town Reborn
White Oaks - Livliest Town in the Territory
Winston - Mining & Ranching in
Sierra County
North Dakota
North Dakota Forts
Oklahoma
Doaksville Archeological Site
Foss - Doomed From
the Beginning
Oklahoma Forts
Shamrock - Oil
Boom & Bust
Texola - Gateway to Oklahoma
Warwick's Seen Better Days
Oregon
Shaniko - Wool
Capitol of the World
Sumpter - Queen
City Ghost Town
South Dakota
Okaton - A
Prairie Ghost Town
Rough & Tumble Deadwood
Texas
Alanreed - Gone
Are the Glory Days
Alton, Texas
and Goatman’s Bridge
Fort Griffin -
Lawlessness on the Brazos
Glenrio - A
Route 66 Casualty
Indianola -
One Time Port City
Langtry - Home of the
Only Law West of the Pecos
Mobeetie -
Panhandle Mother City
Texas Forts
Utah
Carbon County Ghost Towns
Castle Gate Lost Treasure
Cisco - Crumbling in the
Relentless Sun
Colton - Railroad Mining Ghost Town
Frisco - A Ten
Year High
Fruita - A Lush Valley in the Desert Terrain
Grafton - Virgin River
Ghost Town
Silver Reef - Sandstone
Ghost Town
Thompson Springs - Dying
in the Desert
Sego Canyon,
Utah - History & Ancient History
Utah Forts
Winter Quarters - Ghost
Town Loot
Wyoming
Atlantic
City - Boom & Bust For 100 Years
Miners Delight - Tumbling in the Forest
South Pass City - An Authentic Ghost
Town
Wyoming Forts
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The past belongs to the future...but only
the present
can preserve it.
-- Unknown
St Elmo in
1934. Today,
St. Elmo is
one of the most preserved ghost towns in
Colorado.
This image available for photographic prints
HERE!
THIS OLD TOWN
I was born here.
In a long ago land of shadows and muted sounds
I brushed against the pages of my days,
Partially separated the shadows and sounds.
The world was hot and cold against my cheeks
Within these small structured walls I learned
While my fancies found wings
And sailed far beyond these walls.
I worshipped here.
The soaring sounds touched God
And He made me a sinner.
I loved here,
And became immortal
For a moment.
I heard the music of life
And I carried the music within me.
In the melted minutes of larger shadows and louder sounds
I sweat cold sweat
I smelled the odors of life
Tasted dirt
Felt pain
And slowly died.
I was buried here
Under the cold clay of a faraway field.
A few unheard words gave my entire life meaning.
Stirring my silent screams even more than before.
The town is gone now
And the treasure of my life is spent
Upon the night winds and the weeds,
And on eternity.
-- Perry Eberhart, Ghosts of the Colorado Plains, Swallow
Press Books, Athens, Ohio, 1986.
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