's megadrought has revealed the ghost town of Whiskey Flat at the bottom of Lake Isabella where water levels have fallen to 8 percent.After more than a decade of the ongoing drought, the man-made Lake Isabella has shrunk and allowed access to the foundations of Whiskey Flat, an infamous Wild West town home to the gold rush, shootings, and slaughter of Native Americans.The town in Kern County and its inhabitants also inspired several westerns, including John Wayne's 'Stagecoach,' before it was flooded to create the lake in 1953, reported.
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