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Recent Examples of cow townWhat was once just a sleepy little ‘cow town’ in Central California, has now become one of the trendiest wine regions to visit, along with national wine sales that are outperforming the rest of the market.—Liz Thach, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025 If Great Bend failed to achieve the notoriety of Dodge City or other cow towns, Moses’s fellow citizens gave him much of the credit.—Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024 And while Livingston is far from a cow town — more like a fancy-fly-rod-and-real-estate town — Campione still stands out.—Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023 In the sporting world, all eyes were on tiny Shelby, Montana, a two-block cow town where on July Fourth heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler, would defend this title against Tommy Gibbons.—Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023 In proud but struggling little communities throughout rural Northern California, grand old hotels hark back to when these places were booming Gold Rush towns, timber towns and cow towns.—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023 Peoria morphed from cow town to boom town, tripling in population to about 190,000 today.—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023 Daruszka, who speaks on rail topics at libraries and local historical societies, is leading a campaign to make more people aware of how railroads fueled Chicago’s explosive growth from frontier cow town to America’s third largest city.—Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021 Not a shining city on a hill, but a little cow town in the mountains.—Erin Sood, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
Casa Hygge As its name implies, the tiny Baja California town of El Pescadero was once little more than a fishing village wedged between the Pacific Ocean and the dusty Sierra de la Laguna mountains.
The main road is one lane, and the level of toxins that surround my little hamlet of standing houses is very worrisome.
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Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
10 Sep. 2025
The Camino del Norte follows Spain’s wild coast, with cliffs, coves, and fishing villages, while the Camino Primitivo winds through rugged mountains, misty valleys, and remote hamlets.
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