Top 10 True Western Towns of 2008
By: TW Editors 01/02/2008
Towns You Should Know
BUFFALO, WY
A real Wild West town now preserved as a historic district. You can stay at the Occidental Hotel, which hosted Butch and Sundance, Calamity Jane and President Teddy Roosevelt.
ELLENSBURG, WA
The National Trust for Historic Preservation named this central Washington town as one of its Dozen Distinctive Destinations in 2007—the downtown historic district looks pretty much the same as it did in the early 1890s.
EL PASO, TX
A unique place where Hispanic and American cultures have mingled for 150-plus years. Gunfighters John Wesley Hardin and John Selman settled down here—in Concordia Cemetery, still one of the area’s top attractions.
FORT SMITH, AR
A place synonymous with rope justice, Fort Smith is a living representation of 19th-century army life and law enforcement. The Hanging Judge still lurks....
HELENA, MT
Montana’s capital city began honoring its history pretty much from day one—the state historical society museum dates back to 1865, just a year after gold hunters founded the town.
LEADVILLE, CO
The famed mining camp is now a national historic district, with more than 70 blocks of preserved and renovated buildings dating back to the heydays of the 1880s.
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