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Ghost Towns
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Most ghost towns in the American West are a result of mining booms and busts in the late eighteen-hundreds and early twentieth century. (There are abandoned timber-based towns too.) Where no more than a few weathered buildings or stone walls remain today, at their peak the largest towns boasted populations of five to ten thousand souls living, usually, in the middle-of-nowhere. Safe amid brick walls, Shasta SHP, CA
I've often wondered what attracted people to such hard back-breaking labor in remote and difficult places. One day I shared this wonderment with the Park Ranger at Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada, to which he replied, he didn't wonder what attracted people to such places but instead, what life must have been like where they came from that this would seem like the better place to be! Here's a few images from the Outsight photo stock:
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left: Tom Kelly's Bottle House, built 1906. Rhyolite. Nye Co., NV
center: House in Great Basin desert. Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park. Nye Co., NV right: Adobe house. Panamint Valley. Ballarat, Inyo Co., CA |
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left: The Cook Bank Building. Rhyolite, Nye Co., NV
center: Buildings and Mill. Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park. Nye Co., NV right: Shell gasoline sign in front of store. Bodie State Historic Park. Mono Co., CA |
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left: Tilted outhouse, fire station. Bodie State Historic Park. Mono Co., CA
center: Large wooden pulleys, Berlin Mill. Berlin Ichthyosaur SP. Nye Co., NV right: Stone ruins, Candelaria. Esmeralda Co., NV |
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left: Kitchen inside house. Bodie State Historic Park. Mono Co., CA
center: The Kings Saloon. North Bloomfield. Malakoff Diggins SHP. Nevada Co., CA right: Gravestone in cemetery. Berlin. Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park. Nye Co., NV |
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