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    BARTONSITE, TEXAS

    Mar 26, 2019 2 minutes
    BY LAZELLE JONES

    The life story of many a Western boomtown turned ghost town pivots on the lure of mineral wealth—real or imagined. Others were born of a different sort of anticipated wealth, the kind that followed the arrival of a railroad.

    Such a story begins in 1907 with the creation of Bartonsite, a planned community on the Llano Estacado that by 1921 had all but disappeared. The

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