{"id":623,"date":"2016-11-12T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2016\/11\/12\/ballarat"},"modified":"2017-09-10T07:11:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T13:11:13","slug":"ballarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Ballarat"},"content":{"rendered":"
Into the furthest depths of Death Valley one must venture bravely into if you want to try and reach the ghost town of Ballarat<\/a>. My guess is that many do not try.<\/a><\/div>\n
Born in 1897, died in 1917, the desert town’s heyday was certainly short lived. Some desert rats though continued to carve out a life here at the base of the Panamint mountains. Characters such as “Seldom Seen Slim” and Frank “Shorty” Harris.<\/a><\/div>\n
I look upon their grave markers and former residences as the summer sun beats down from above. A wild braying burro startles me from my dreaming.<\/a><\/div>\n
I move along through the remains of another forgotten town of the American West.<\/div>\n