Brent Underwood, who rose to fame as the sole permanent resident of abandoned town Cerro Gordo, is the author of the new book called “Ghost Town Living.” Brent Underwood is the owner of Cerro Gordo in ...

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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 ...

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 ...