1.   The little mining town was desolate and ugly.

2.   The roaring mining town attracted job seekers eager to share in the boom.

3.   It was once a booming mining town.

4.   A vagabond group of entertainers that performed in rough-and-tumble mining towns.

5.   A frontier mining town that had few diversions other than the local bawdy house.

6.   Already a popular legend, the frontiersman comes to the rowdy mining town lured by gold, gambling and the prospect of a quick death.

7.   At the Kearny United Drug Store in this eastern Arizona mining town, there is a bin near the cash register where customers pick up their orders.

8.   Beating Baucus this time around, Republican strategists conjectured, would just be a matter of recruiting the right candidate to work the mining towns and ranch country.

9.   A drive through Lithgow explains why the Olympics have lifted this place in a way, perhaps, that it would not lift an Appalachian mining town.

10.   A mining town is overrun by overgrown arachnids.