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The People of Death Valley

December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 / Len Wilcox / Leave a comment

Part 1: Shoshone and Paiute Tribes Western Slope of the Panamints in winter California's Death Valley is magnificent. Wildly beautiful, strange, remote, awe-inspiring - it deserves these accolades, and more. It is an odd place; nothing quite like it exists anywhere else on this continent. Nothing is on a small scale here; extreme is the … Continue reading The People of Death Valley

The Ghost Town of Bodie

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 / Len Wilcox / Leave a comment

Now a state park, Bodie was once an active mining town on the high desert in Eastern California. Here lie the bones of history, in the shadow of the eastern Sierra Nevada, north of Mono Lake between Lee Vining, California, and Hawthorne, Nevada. This is the ghost town of Bodie, California. Once the home of … Continue reading The Ghost Town of Bodie

Shorty Harris of the Mojave

November 20, 2020December 12, 2020 / Len Wilcox / Leave a comment

I’d like to introduce you to one of my favorite characters from the west. He’s a prospector from the Mojave Desert called Shorty Harris who lived a few years in the boom town of Ballarat. Ballarat, California is a town on the edge of nowhere, a collection of mud huts and tin shanties in one … Continue reading Shorty Harris of the Mojave

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