When you look across the landscape of the modern day United States of America, the actual footprints of the wild west are few and far between. The industrial revolution truly changed the iconography and images of American frontiers, infrastructures, and communities at large. That being said, not all that existed during the earliest eras in United States history are merely left in the dust of a more modern age. Ghost towns, especially those of long forgotten western settlements, are perfectly picturesque replicas of the spaces we once occupied all across the great plains and beyond.

In a way, ghost towns from the wild west are the best preserved footprints of the frontier we now only experience through textbooks and encyclopedias, their crumbling architecture and wayward atmospheres now the symbol of the period’s makeshift attitudes. If one thing is for certain, it’s that with every ghost town comes an incredibly rich story full of both optimistic beginnings and haunted endings, much like the general history of the wild west itself.

0:00 Introduction
1:26 Miner’s Delight, Wyoming
11:03 Shaniko, Oregon
18:00 Amboy, California

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