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Podcast: Nightshade Diary
Episode: The Ghost of Two Forks and Another Western Mystery | Podcast
Description: The Ghost of Two Forks by Elmer Kelton: "A railroad was often a blessing to early Texas towns, but it could as easily be a curse. But other towns, once prosperous, withered and died because the Eastern money counters and the surveyors favored a route that bypassed them. Such a town was Two Forks, for years a county seat." What happens to a town when all the living leave? The Defense of Sentinel by Louise L' Amour: "No sound…. No movement. No rattling of well buckets, no cackling of hens, no slamming of doors. Sentinel wa...