Tag: ghosttowns
member name: Cecile V.
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November 14, 2006 07:31 PM EST --
My First Published Works
About a year and a half ago, my friend Robin Flinchum asked if I would submit a proposal to the First Annual Nevada Boomtown Conference. I had a little piece on the old silver . . .
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October 28, 2006 04:42 PM EDT --
In time for Halloween...I bring you the this story about the Tommyknockers which I wrote 4 years ago. Hope you are on their good side!
The Elves of the Hardrock Mines
When the Cornish Miners, . . .
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November 06, 2006 04:41 PM EST --
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note: The story is true... the names have not . . .
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October 17, 2006 07:00 PM EDT --
Searching Tales Tall & True
I am not in Tujunga today, at least not for the last couple of hours or so. I sit in an old miners cabin on a cragged mountaintop with the wind blowing so hard I'm . . .
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November 01, 2006 09:40 PM EST --
This is the final episode of an 8 piece adventure. The following link will take you to the first episode.
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In Search of the Lost Gunsight Mine: The Final . . .
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November 06, 2006 03:45 PM EST --
Note: The majority of my animals are named after ghosttowns or historical figures from my ghosttown. I occassionally write little blurps about them. Here's a typical weekend . . .
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December 10, 2006 06:30 PM EST --
This was written for my website a few years back. I also wrote the song, which can easily be sung to the tune of "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem"
Oh dusty town of Bodie!
How still we . . .
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October 29, 2006 01:22 PM EST --
This is part 7 in a series that I have been posting over the last week or so. I'm including the link to the first part here so that you can go back and retrace this story if you haven't . . .
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November 27, 2006 11:50 PM EST --
Thanksgiving Travels Past And Future
We started out the big turkey day with close friends that we had all but lost touch with thanks to suburban time and distance. All gathered in rembrance . . .
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November 05, 2006 04:08 PM EST --
The Masonic Log
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Poor Little Jake
Tour Guide In Training
I can remember it well. It was back in August of '92. I was just a young fellow, all of 8 months old, actually, and quite fit and trim compared . . .
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November 15, 2006 01:34 PM EST --
For days, the young people of the silver town of Cerro Gordo scoured the mountainsides for what native wildflowers and shrubbery they could find late in the month of August . . .
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October 18, 2006 03:57 PM EDT --
Part I: /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976817888
Part II More Tall Tales From This Mountaintop
Well, I've had quite the day. It was well after noon when I realized I had been at my computer . . .
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October 19, 2006 12:48 PM EDT --
part I /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976817888
part II: /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976818559
Part III The Tale Begins
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September 03, 2006 02:25 AM EDT --
For two days we lived isolated on the mountain, with only a few daring to venture up the Yellow Grade Road while we were there. We soaked up as much lonliness, and old time atmosphere as we could, but . . .
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September 28, 2006 01:29 PM EDT --
Got back Tuesday afternoon from our 11 days in the Eastern Sierra. Our base camp was Mammoth, central to points further south, north, and east that we had on our agenda. As mentioned previously, . . .
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October 02, 2006 02:41 PM EDT --
Somewhere between Lone Pine and Death Valley, in a hot dusty, remote and desolate area, lies the mere shadow of a town called Darwin. The first white travelers to pass . . .
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October 12, 2006 05:48 PM EDT --
We often spend days at our friends ghost town. making the population of the town 3 humans, six town cats, 4 dogs, plus our own Maggie Moore Ho Dog, as . . .
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October 04, 2006 01:53 AM EDT --
Back in the days when pathfinders were sent as forerunners to blaze trails, and with their amigos, to fight bronco riding Cherokees along the way, the closest thing to four-wheel drive vehicles . . .
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October 09, 2006 08:19 PM EDT --
I don't know how I missed this in yesterday's Los Angeles Times! An article about my "ghosttown" away from home! Took an e-mail from a former co-worker and a message to me in . . .
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October 17, 2006 04:57 PM EDT --
Let's all give a hearty welcome to our new member David L., who probably had the hardest journey to get to the backcountry and ghosttowns. Perhaps he'll delight us all with the . . .
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