My trip was cut short and I raced home, and have been busy so haven't posted any
photos yet..eventually. West of Denver there are a whole lot of ghost towns, all the way to the Pacific coast, but certainly in Colorado. I got hooked on them when I showed up at the Denver Natural History Museum in 1955, and Muriel Sibell Wolle, a professor of art in Boulder, was signing her book on them, which was comprised of charcoal drawings of every ghost town she could track down in her Model A Ford
all over Colorado prior to WWII.. She did similar books on other western states but
I only have found her Colorado ones. (there is no evidence now of some towns she captured by drawing....I wish she had also photoed all of them) The
location of one mining camp that is now just an empty space in aspen groves is just above Creede in southern Colorado, and plainly marked. Eureka above Silverton has
the RR water tower, the foundations of two huge ore mills, and nothing else and it
was once a booming town. Animas Forks above that has a few more buildings and mine structures, as do other sites around that area. Vanished railroads and ghost towns are often found together in the American west.
