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TitleDirt road near South Pass City, a mining boomtown of 2,000 people in the 1860s in what is now Fremont County, Wyoming, that by 1949 was a ghost town. Over time miners, speculators, and businessmen, finding little gold and suffering in the region's winter blizzards and unrelenting summer heat, abandoned the town, which is named for the surrounding valley that proved the most reliable route through the Rocky Mountains for emigrants on the Oregon, Mormon, and California trails. Now a historic site, South Pass City once again has (in 2016) a few hardy residentsTypeStill ImageCollectionSubjectAmericaSouth PassBoom townsEsther Hobart MorrisWoman's suffrageDirt roadsDigital photographs--Color--2010-2020 (GMGPC)United States--Wyoming--Fremont County--South Pass City. (LOCAL)NoteForms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.Authorized Access PointHighsmith, Carol M., 1946- Dirt road near South Pass City, a mining boomtown of 2,000 people in the 1860s in what is now Fremont County, Wyoming, that by 1949 was a ghost town. Over time miners, speculators, and businessmen, finding little gold and suffering in the region's winter blizzards and unrelenting summer heat, abandoned the town, which is named for the surrounding valley that proved the most reliable route through the Rocky Mountains for emigrants on the Oregon, Mormon, and California trails. Now a historic site, South Pass City once again has (in 2016) a few hardy residents