Title(s): Exploring the Unspoiled West, Vol.s 1 and 2
Author(s): The Society of American Travel Writers
Date(s): 1974
Photos: Inaccurate
Unspoiled: see “The West Nobody Knows” (alt. interpretations known to exist)
Structural_Note: Held intact by Scotch Tape
“Spawned as a tent camp alongside the railroad tracks a century ago, Elko is now grown more substantial but scarcely more beautiful. Nothing of any but local significance ever happened in the buildings crowded downtown or straggling out along the highway. No one famous or even notorious was ever born here. There is no local industry. Once fed, rested or fueled for the drive ahead, most travelers are content to put Elko rapidly behind them.”
Dams: Grand Coulee; Chief Joseph; Rocky Reach; Rock Island; Wanapum; Priest Rapids; McNary; John Day; The Dalles; Bonneville
Dates: 1909; 1963
“Even more distinctive than most rivers in form and feature is the Columbia, the old Oregon that now hears far other sounds than ‘his own dashings,’ the River of the West, the Thegayo, the Rio de Aguilar, the many-named river which unites all parts of the Pacific Northwest. It is to its records of romance and heroism, of legend and history, as well as to its alternating scenes of stormy grandeur and tranquil majesty that the reader’s attention is now invited.”
“And now our vessel rises and falls upon the long swell of the Pacific. Our journey on the Columbia River is ended, and we are upon the open sea.”
foundSituation: Sun and Moon both present—moon just above horizon, sun just between clouds and horizon leaving alternating ridges in the light of sunset.
fieldResearched by PAL, NC: Nevada Copper Belt; Virginia & Truckee Railroad; Nevada, California, & Oregon Railroad; Carson & Colorado Railroad
“You are standing on an old right-of-way in Nevada. It is early in the morning, the air is clear and brisk, and shadows flow from the sagebrush. Your eye follows the old railroad grade as it curves to the shoulder of the hill and stems down the plain before turning into a canyon… Those railroads, the lives of the men who built them, the few or the hordes who rode them into new mining camps in search of riches or returned with the long faces of disappointment—we may never see or meet them. We can only review the poignant record of their activities which has been left behind. And that we are about to do.”
Companies: Consolidated; Mammoth; Pittsburg-Liberty; Red Cloud; Cain Consolidated; Roseklip; Syndicate; Noonday; Blue Vein
Boom: yes
Bust: yes
“Some of the stopes have caved; some of the towns have wasted away to nothing; most of the rails have rusted; and the stamp mills are silent. Still… we can revisit this land of heady opportunity and catch some of the glow that was caught before and which will surely, some day, be caught again by the likes of you and me.”
![California Artifact Collection, ID: A2013-006
Creators: Various
Dates: Various
Materials: Various [Saltwater; Calcium; Glass; Rubber; Barnacles; Iron]
Mills: Loyalton [closed]; Quincy; Ione [removed, never existed?]: Sierra Pacific Camino [closed]
Kayakers: yes [American River]
Snow: Only on the Forest Service roads [Spring Near]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/220c691a9ea5f86d5191212ff2f61058/tumblr_mlklmqrlLS1qe9jbio1_1280.jpg)
![California Place Collection, ID: CP2013-006.01
Title: Sewage Treatment Facilities
Facilities: Not Present
Water District: Newell County
Reclamation Project: Klamath
Internment Camps: Tule Lake
Coordinates: 41.897266, -121.363533
Fogs: Tule Fog; Pogonip [frozen onto powerlines]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/590affb64f8c6b8e0643dbbffc105991/tumblr_ml7kfxUyO11qe9jbio1_1280.jpg)
![Book Collection, ID: B2013-012
Title: Railroads of Nevada [and Eastern California]
subTitle: Volume I: The Northern Roads
Author: Myrick, David F.
Dates: 1962, 1963
fieldResearched by PAL, NC: Nevada Copper Belt; Virginia & Truckee Railroad; Nevada, California, & Oregon Railroad; Carson & Colorado Railroad
“You are standing on an old right-of-way in Nevada. It is early in the morning, the air is clear and brisk, and shadows flow from the sagebrush. Your eye follows the old railroad grade as it curves to the shoulder of the hill and stems down the plain before turning into a canyon… Those railroads, the lives of the men who built them, the few or the hordes who rode them into new mining camps in search of riches or returned with the long faces of disappointment—we may never see or meet them. We can only review the poignant record of their activities which has been left behind. And that we are about to do.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/4553f27f12e091c54f68ba56d1e3b789/tumblr_ml4i5s8Jj91qe9jbio1_1280.jpg)
![Book Collection, ID: B2013-015
Title: Mining Camp Days
Author: Billeb, Emil W.
Published: 1968 [Howell-North, Berkeley, California]
Companies: Consolidated; Mammoth; Pittsburg-Liberty; Red Cloud; Cain Consolidated; Roseklip; Syndicate; Noonday; Blue Vein
Boom: yes
Bust: yes
“Some of the stopes have caved; some of the towns have wasted away to nothing; most of the rails have rusted; and the stamp mills are silent. Still… we can revisit this land of heady opportunity and catch some of the glow that was caught before and which will surely, some day, be caught again by the likes of you and me.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/474097cccf139a92c2ebeaf770da97b6/tumblr_mkz0iniHr31qe9jbio1_1280.jpg)
