Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad
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Amargosa River Basin Gets $2.9 Million Planning Grant — But Restoration Is Still Years Away
On a Saturday afternoon in Tecopa, over pizza from the Kit Fox Café, scientists and local residents gathered at the community center to reckon with a quiet emergency. The subject was the middle portion of the Amargosa River — what it still holds, what it is slowly losing, and what it will take to keep…
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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…
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Discovering Tecopa’s Mining Heritage
Nestled in the arid landscape of Southern California’s Mojave Desert, Tecopa holds a rich history deeply rooted in mining. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this small desert town emerged as a vital hub for extracting silver, lead, and zinc. The discovery of abundant ore deposits in the surrounding mountains sparked a mining…