Series Sneak-Peek: The Modern West
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From our friends at Wyoming Public Media comes a preview episode, ‘Ghost Town(ing)’, from The Modern West podcast, where the team goes looking for the ghosts of an old silver mining community called Teller City to see if they have any lessons for how the nearby town of Walden, Colorado can keep from falling into the same cycles of boom and bust.  Why are we so fascinated by old ghost towns? And what can they teach us? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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