Alta, Utah

Alta was a small mining town at the foot of the Rustler Mountains of Utah. In its heyday (the early 1870s) Atla possessed twenty six saloons and possibly the largest cemetery in the West for a town of its size-the latter having more than a hundred gun law victims within its precincts. In 1873 a stranger to the town promised to resurrect all Alta's dead for a not exorbitant fee, but after carefully considering the offer the town turned it down and gave the stranger a community collection totaling $25,000 on his undertaking to leave Alta for all time. The town is now nothing but a ghost.