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Panamint City

Panamint Springs, CA

Ruins of a violent 1870s silver camp lie deep in Surprise Canyon and require a strenuous backcountry hike; this is not a drive-up ghost town.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/california/surprise-canyon-wsr

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