The desert plains across the USA play home to a plethora of Wild West towns that went from being booming mining villages to lifeless towns

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Calico remained a ghost town for 100-plus years but, thanks to Walter Knott

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Thousands of people came to settle in the town of Rhyolite in the early 20th century. Located 120 miles (193km) northwest of Las Vegas

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it was a prosperous place to be, until the San Francisco earthquake and financial crisis hit in 1907

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Rhyolite is one of the most photographed ghost towns in the West and visitors are drawn to its intriguing collection

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Goldfield, Arizona, USA

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town was never fully revived and Goldfield, (later renamed Youngsberg), was left to go to wrack and ruin

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