Hollywood gave us a version of the Old West filled with shootouts and saloons, yet the real frontier was far more complex and interesting. Some towns have preserved their authentic Western heritage, ...

Ghost towns are prevalent in the Montana and other parts of the West, with 100 to more than 200 per state, but even states in the Midwest and several Eastern states have between 10 to 100 ghost towns ...

Garnet, Montana, is one of the best ghost towns in the West, and it offers a chance to see what life was like in a 19th-century mining town. Once home to 1,000 residents and 13 saloons, Garnet was ...