The West has always been a place for Americans who dream. About a second chance, about riches, about a free and productive life on fertile land with clear streams. All the great Western towns we profile here were settled by such folks and, with their ancestors and later-comers now in charge, the towns’ futures look bright. Their people have dedicated themselves to preserving what they’ve built—through museums, mansions, log homes and cherished artifacts, as well as through great old sto


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