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Besides a ghost town, is there a present day city that still preserves the feel of the Old West? By that, I mean you still see and feel the times of gold and silver mining, cowboys, saloons, and just early western migration and discovery in general.
Fort Worth excluding the gold and silver mines. Also, a lot of small towns in Texas have preserved they're "western" feel. Bertram and Bandera are the best examples I can think of.
Midland-Odessa, Texas looks to have a fair amount of mining as does Bakersfield, California and Anchorage, Alaska. I think Bakersfield has or had a sizable Country-Western music scene and Midland-Odessa is Bush country.
In smaller towns Artesia, New Mexico; Winnemucca, Nevada; Golconda, Nevada; Elko micropolitan area in Nevada; Perryton, Texas; and Alice, Texas look pretty mining dominant. Elko apparently hosts the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and the Western Folklife Center. Perryton can be seen in the spelling documentary "Spellbound." Not necessarily related, but it's in what is now one of the most Republican counties in the nation. (They loved Truman though, back when) Alice, Texas is apparently bigger for Tejano music and culture.
I might guess that some town in Wyoming or Montana might still have some Western feel. Also Deadwood, South Dakota I think maintains a good deal of Western stuff if in a touristy way. Although the town declined for decades it never became a ghost town so far as I can tell.
Sadly, when I was a kid you could also still "feel" the old west (both in the real old historical and the kitcshy sense) in many parts of then urban California.
But that's all long gone.
Our biggest mistake was our failure to identify, PR and "sell" the Old West historical aspects. The flood of newcomers subsequently overwhelmed the "Old West" here.
Absolutely. Allen Street is a bit of a tourist trap, but it still reeks of old Western society.
I was there on Saturday. It's a LOT tourist trap, but it does look and feel very old west. The places is dripping with history too. I would say Tombstone as well.
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