After People

Title

After People

Artist

Jim Cook

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Photograph - Photography, Digital Art

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The town that was built to last forever didn￿t quite make it. After gold was discovered by a couple of lucky miners the town began to form with tents lining a main street. Tents and wood shanties soon gave way to wooden structures and soon more sturdy buildings of concrete and expensive dressed cut block were added. The town took its name from, rhyolite an igneous rock that is made up mostly of light-colored, silicates. Colors range from buff to pink and some light gray. Similar to granite though more rare. From 1904 to 1907 the town grew at a rapid pace and was home to a population of perhaps 10,000. Serving the community were banks, a school, hospital, an opera house, stock exchange, several banks (this photo is all that remains of one of them) and a busy red light district. As the mines began to produce less and less it was only a matter of time before the end would come. The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and then the ensuing Financial Panic of 1909 sealed its fate. Today all that remains are the crumbling buildings, an open air museum and the famous ￿Bottle House￿ constructed from discarded whiskey and beer bottles. There are a number of artists that work here beneficiaries of artist residency programs. Site is managed and protected by the Bureau of Land Management. It is located about 120 miles from Las Vegas and very near the East border of Death Valley National Park. More of my work from this area can be seen in my collection ￿Death Valley￿ here in FAA.

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March 16th, 2017

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