Where Would You Have Thrived In The Old West?

Even way back in the day, San Fran was a multicultural city. People came from all over the world to try their luck at mining or to work on the Transcontinental Railroad. Savvy people built banks or businesses--honorable or not--to rake in the dough. In fact, San Francisco is the birthplace of Levi jeans.

Known as 'Hell on the Plains,' this town was a dangerous and violent place to live. Only the roughest, toughest Westerners could thrive here!

Located between Denver and San Francisco, miners came here looking for gold but found a ton of silver instead. It's the home of the Comstock Lode. Virginia City is the birthplace of many famous fortunes, including those of Hearst and Ralston! It was a town that turned grubby prospectors into sophisticates!

Cody was founded in part by its namesake, Buffalo Bill! Looking to give folks a better place to settle than nearby Sheridan, Cody and other investors built a town from scratch that would give residents the best views of the Bighorn Mountains and a good place to farm. It was a perfect place to be in the last days of frontier settlement.

Denver residents were some of the sharpest minds in the Old West. Many of them came ahead of the miners and bought up land to sell to them, or opened up businesses to support them. When the railroad bypassed Denver, the residents raised the cash to build their OWN railroad--an amazing feat in an 1850s frontier town!

Yosemite Sam knew a thing about Pecos--that it was the true start of the Wild West. People drawn to the town were looking for a cowboy's life, and that's what they got. Two major cattle trails went through here--the Chisholm and the Goodnight-Loving--as well as the Butterfield Overland Mail Route. A whole lot of bragging went on, and that's how this town came to be home of the very first rodeo!