Towns of the Old West

Name these famous towns of the American Old West.

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Clue	State	Town
Where the Lewis and Clark expedition began	MO	St. Louis
The oldest state capital and former capital of New Mexico Territory	NM	Santa Fe
Oregon Territory's first settlement	OR	Astoria
Davy Crockett and William Travis died defending the Alamo here	TX	San Antonio
Where Brigham Young said "this is the place"	UT	Salt Lake City
Gold was found at Sutter's Mill, near here, in 1848	CA	Sacramento
The hub of the California Gold Rush	CA	San Francisco
Capital of the newly-sold Department of Alaska	AK	Sitka
Where the Oregon Trail began	MO	Independence
Nevada silver mining town centered around the Comstock Lode	NV	Virginia City
Get out of this town that was the setting of Gunsmoke	KS	Dodge City
It lent its name to Harry Longabaugh, AKA the "________ Kid"	WY	Sundance
The site of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral	AZ	Tombstone
Kansas town where the old Chisholm Trail ended	KS	Abilene
The site of the Black Hills Gold Rush, which later inspired an HBO series	SD	Deadwood
Where Billy the Kid was gunned down in 1881	NM	Fort Sumner
"Rodeo Capital of the World" that is named for Buffalo Bill	WY	Cody
America's highest city, the site of an 1896 miner's strike	CO	Leadville
The largest city founded after an 1889 land rush	OK	Oklahoma City
Mining town that now has wild burros roaming its streets	AZ	Oatman

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