| There are going to be lots of photos on
the road. This is one on the road heading eastbound from Sparks. It
is an overcast morning. |
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| The dirt road on the way to... |
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| Unionville. There was originally a camp
called Dixie established by Confederate miners in the upper part of
the Buena Vista Canyon. As more miners from the North moved in, the
camp was renamed Unionville. |
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| The Buena Vista Schoolhouse. |
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| There are around twenty people still
living in Unionville and there is a B&B there. This is not it. |
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| About seven miles up that dirt road was
a town called Star City. The historical marker said there wasn't
much there anymore but some crumbling foundations and rusted mill
equipment, so I didn't venture in. |
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| One place I attempted to go was
Palisade. There was a long and winding road to get there. |
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| The road was rough and I didn't really
want to keep going, so I turned around several mile before getting
there. So the trip wasn't a total loss, here is a picture of cows
grazing on the side of a hill. |
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| There is a California Trail
Interpretive Center outside of Elko. |
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| "Seeing the elephant" was a phrase that
developed to mean experiencing hardships and challenges on the trek
westward that were difficult to describe. So here is a sculpture of
an elephant. It is fairly easy to describe. |
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| This was pretty interesting. It is an
odometer for a wagon. There are several gears connected to each
other that measure the distance travelled. |
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| Damn it, Jebediah! I told you if you
played that song one more time I was going shoot you. You'd better
start running because I'm loading my rifle. |
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| It might be hard to make out, but there
are three modes of transportation there: wagons, train and cars. |
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| Elko has some casinos, but this one
seems to be shut down. |
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| Some nice old motel signage. |
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| I took this photo as an example of
everything wrong with modern architecture. I hope whomever designed
this building suffered a long and painful death. |
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| This might not actually be an old
building but it was constructed in the classic Western style. |
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| The Chilton Centennial Tower
commemorates the 100th anniversity of the founding of Elko in 1917. |
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| So many towns out west have the town's
initial on the side of a nearby mountain. There's an E. |
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