Explore Wyoming’s Most Eccentric Little Ghost Town

Have you ever heard of the town of Miners Delight, Wyoming?

Some weird things happened here.

Like the guy who kept a bear as a pet, until someone shot it and served the pet bear to him without his knowing.

Then there was the lady postmaster who became the first woman resident of Wyoming's prison system.

This gem of a ghost town in Wyoming has some entertaining histories to go with it and is also located in close proximity to other ghost towns and historic places.  This is a great place to spend a lot of time!

The YouTube page Ghost Towns & More explores this tiny boom town if you were to go drive out and see it today.

There is more to Miners Delight when you arrive there.

Several other little boom towns had popped up in the same area.

Watch the video below to hear the fascinating stores of this little ghost town.

Hamilton City, or Miner's Delight as it was commonly known, was a town in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States, on the southeastern tip of the Wind River Range, that prospered during the mining boom in the American West in the second half of the 19th century.

It was a "sister city" of Atlantic City and South Pass City.

The tiny town mostly served miners in the area. Not many people lived there.

Only a few buildings are left standing.

Like many towns in Wyoming Miner's Delight went through several boom-bust periods, as many western mining towns did, with corresponding rises and declines in its population.

Gold was discovered there in 1868, and by 1870, at the height of the mine's operations, the population in Hamilton City was 75, forty of whom were miners.

The original boom of mining activity "busted", however, from 1872 to 1874, but by the 1880s a new era of economic prosperity had dawned.

Smaller booms occurred in 1907 and in 1910, and then again during the Great Depression.

People were living in the town back in the 1960s.

By 2015 the last resident had left the town.