Senin, 09 Oktober 2017

Ghost Town: Sego, Utah

Gold and silver drew men west, but coal powered the nation. While most of today’s well-known Western ghost towns prospered during the search for precious metals, Sego was a coal town, supplying fuel for railroads, homes and industry. Extensive panels of Barrier, Fremont and Ute pictographs and petroglyphs in this area of eastern Utah bear …

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