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A Century of Commerce in Death Valley: Brian Brown Traces the Reinvention of the Northern Mojave
SHOSHONE, Calif., March 14 — When Brian Brown held up a small Colt revolver, the whole room gasped. The .32-20 Winchester, shown in a photograph of his great-uncle Howard Corkill at a local mining camp and long remembered in family lore as a woman’s handbag pistol, embodied the kind of desert history Brown had come…
Residents Rejoice: State Route 127 To Reopen
Residents of Tecopa, Shoshone and businesses across the area rejoiced at the news that came in over email from Caltrans late last Friday evening: State Route 127 to Baker has a reopening date: December 4. The date is still technically tentative, as weather could still postpone it. The opening is also a partial one –…