Tombstone, Arizona, survived. Scabtown, Texas, didn’t. Then, there are the other burgs, those that boomed, died and yet, in a way, still live. We call them ghost towns, and we love ’em. If you enjoy traipsing around historic places, here are 15 sites that offer more than commercialized ghost towns full of funnel cake or other settlements that have been reduced to cacti and memories. These towns prove that the spirit of the West endures, even when the populations fade. Bannack, Montana: Mo


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