Texas Ghost Towns

Texas has more ghost towns than any other state in the nation – estimates put the number in the thousands. The cattle drive era, the oil booms, the cotton economy, the railroad expansion, and the frontier settlement of the west all created communities that thrived and then faded as the economic conditions that built them changed. Texas ghost towns range from the dramatic adobe ruins of the far west to the barely visible traces of cotton farming communities in the east, spanning the full geographic and historical range of the Lone Star State.

Ghost Towns of Texas on Amazon

Looking to explore Texas’s ghost towns in more depth? The Ghost Towns of Texas series by Jason Smith spans 9 volumes covering hundreds of the state’s abandoned communities across every region.

Browse the Texas Series on Amazon

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