Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Bird's-eye view of about 60 houses and buildings in desert area, with mountains in background This photograph appears with the article, “The Desert’s 'Delirious Decade.' You know about the Forty-niners and Nome and Dawson of ’98, but here are some stories of an even more hectic era in the West’s mining history, as recalled by a man who had a part in helping make some of that history—An interview with Carl B. Glasscock,” Los Angeles Times, February 12, 1933. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Greenwood [Greenwater] Handwritten at edge of print: Sometimes it snows in the Funeral range. Death Valley is just beyond the crest of the peaks in the distance. The sheer drop is 6,000 feet. Text from newspaper caption: Here is the original town of Greenwater, which expected such rapid growth that it picked itself up and moved four miles to a better site.
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