The decaying arrow stands twitching in a stiff wind. It's beckoning you to drive down the white gravel road and visit Eagle City. What the sign doesn't say is that Eagle city is officially classified as a ghost town. Located 10 miles northwest of Watonga in Blaine County, it's a place where the wind howls through the skeletons and dead shells of buildings.
Nothing even gives a hint of how alive Eagle City used to be.
The town was born a century ago around the new Frisco railroad. One legend describes Eagle City as a rip-roaring trade center with hotels, shops, pool hall, saloons and a post office. Masquerade dances were the rage. The stock market crash and the dustbowl, however, dealt Eagle City a staggering one-two punch. Then it was gone again, like the wind.