Texas Billionaire John Poindexter Plans to Revive Shafter Ghost Town

2026-09-19 09:01 • ;Sasha von Oldershausen and Christopher Lee
An 81-year-old billionaire has a vision for preserving a tiny West Texas mining town, even as other forces are reshaping the land around it.
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