A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more--a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing ...

An entrepreneur has documented the progress he has made in rebuilding a California ghost town that he purchased to develop into a tourist attraction. Cerro Gordo—meaning fat hill in Spanish—was a ...

I live in a ghost town — once the most lucrative silver mine in California. For the past five years, I’ve spent nearly every day rebuilding Cerro Gordo, a long-abandoned boomtown perched high in the ...