We search for the buried spirits of a lawless frontier town
***Tonight On Graveyard Mining & Metals Show***
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Saloon doors creak. Swirling dust devils dance along a lonely street lined with boarded up storefronts. On a forsaken plain below a range of mountains, a dying town provides the romantic backdrop for a lone cowboy riding along the isolated settlement's 1 main street. Tumbleweeds scatter in the wind, and somewhere, off in the distance, a coyote howls.
One of finest true ghost towns in the American West, Vulture city grew up around the mine discovered by Henry Wickenburg. Twelve miles southwest of the city that now bears Wickenburg's name, the Vulture Mine and Vulture city once had a population of almost 5,000 souls. Its history was marked by violence and tragedy. Eighteen of Vulture city's former residents swung to eternity at the end of a hangman's noose dangling from the branches of the ancient ironwood tree that still thrives next to the ruins of Henry Wickenburg's old cabin. More died in robberies or through many other acts of terminal lawlessness. A few of those souls are said to haunt the many buildings of the decaying town.
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