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Article: Wild-West Virginia City is a real bonanza
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2005
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VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. -- Beware of dandies who call themselves "Doc"
and ask you to two-step at the Bucket of Blood Saloon.
It may lead to a long afternoon of dallying in a town that plays
its Wild West heritage to the hilt -- and has more fun than a barrel
of feather boas doing so.
Living history (with a wink) is the name of the game in this time-
capsule town of 1,000 perched precariously on a mine-riddled
mountainside 40 miles east of Lake Tahoe. It's the largest national
historic district in the United States, a place at once creaking with
ghosts and laughing raucously in their faces.
Step inside Red Garter Western Wear, a fixture on C Street, the
main drag, and you get an instant sense of ...