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A heartfelt welcome sign in Hartville, Wyoming, which, if you believe the town's own Web site, is (as of 2015) "Wyoming's oldest town still in existence!"

A heartfelt welcome sign in Hartville, Wyoming, which, if you believe ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Settled in the 1870s by prospectors and a thriving city by the turn of that century, Hartville today, at population 76, has "an excell... More

Remains of an old structure in the Terilingua "ghost town," some of which is still occupied and some of which consists of ruins of the Chisos quicksilver-mining company, which operated from 1905 into the early 1940s, and the residences of those who worked there. (Quicksilver is a now little-unused term for the liquid metal mercury.) A Web site for the town speaks of "scenic downtown Terlingua, Texas, just a few exits past the end of the world." The dusty half-ghost, half-real town can be found on the road that connects Big Bend National Park with its state equivalent, Big Bend Ranch State Park, in southern Brewster County, Texas

Remains of an old structure in the Terilingua "ghost town," some of wh...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Street sign for the Miners' and Stockmen's Steakhouse and Spirits bar in Hartville, Wyoming, which, if you believe the town's own Web site, is (as of 2015) "Wyoming's oldest town still in existence!"

Street sign for the Miners' and Stockmen's Steakhouse and Spirits bar ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Settled in the 1870s by prospectors and a thriving city by the turn of that century, Hartville today, at population 76, has "an excell... More

Miners' and Stockmen's Steakhouse and Spirits bar in Hartville, Wyoming, which, if you believe the town's own Web site, is (as of 2015) "Wyoming's oldest town still in existence!"

Miners' and Stockmen's Steakhouse and Spirits bar in Hartville, Wyomin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Settled in the 1870s by prospectors and a thriving city by the turn of that century, Hartville today, at population 76, has "an excell... More

Cow skull and other trophy heads inside the Miners' and Stockmen's Steakhouse and Spirits bar in Hartville, Wyoming, which, if you believe the town's own Web site, is (as of 2015) "Wyoming's oldest town still in existence!"

Cow skull and other trophy heads inside the Miners' and Stockmen's Ste...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Settled in the 1870s by prospectors and a thriving city by the turn of that century, Hartville today, at population 76, has "an excell... More

Hand-hewn street signs in Hartville, Wyoming, which, if you believe the town's own Web site, is (as of 2015) "Wyoming's oldest town still in existence!"

Hand-hewn street signs in Hartville, Wyoming, which, if you believe th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Settled in the 1870s by prospectors and a thriving city by the turn of that century, Hartville today, at population 76, has "an excell... More