Dead or Alive: Ghost Towns

Flagstaff, AZ – Historians see 19th century mining towns as places where the world was often turned upside down. And where people were free to live outside society's norms. In a little town north of Kingman, the Wild Roses, an all female gunfighting group, is proving that ghost towns continue to be places to dream. Every other Saturday at high noon, they put on a show for tourists in the center of Chloride.

Flagstaff AZ – Third and final segment in a special one hour call in show on ghost towns.

Phoenix, AZ – Second segment in a special one hour call in show on ghost towns.

Flagstaff AZ – First segment in a special one hour call in show on ghost towns.

Flagstaff, AZ – Today, KNAU continues our series Dead or Alive, an exploration of Arizona's ghost towns. When most people think of ghost towns, they think of abandoned buildings and wooden sidewalks. But in Arizona, many ghost towns are recently deserted trading posts and ancient Native American ruins.

Flagstaff, AZ – Today, KNAU continues our series Dead or Alive, a look at Arizona's ghost towns. In today's episode, the dead are very much kept alive by the blurring of history and myth. An old adage in western history says that when legend becomes fact, print the legend. And as ghost town hunter Kurt Wenner describes, that's exactly what's happened at a town just east of Flagstaff.

Flagstaff, AZ – Historians often see the tie between ghost towns and tourism as one of nostalgia for seemingly simpler times. But ghost down re-development often leads to unforeseen consequences. And, unforeseen occupants.

Flagstaff, AZ – This week, KNAU presents the series Dead or Alive, a look at northern Arizona's ghost towns, across time and cultures why we're drawn to them, and what we can learn from them. Today, we meet a Ghost Town Hunter who's spent the last 15 years visiting hundreds of ghost towns across Arizona. His goal? To document them, through photographs, before they disappear.