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GLADE CREEK MILL
West Virginia. High contrast effect.
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FALLING SPRINGS MILL
Southern Missouri
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RUSTIC AMERICA Please scroll or link down to view the entire portfolio of 25 prints of old mills, barns and "ghosts of the Rockies". Purchase Information Back to Main Page |
GLADE CREEK MILL West Virginia. High contrast effect. Read About this Image Order this Image |
FALLING SPRINGS MILL Southern Missouri Order this Image |
WHITE MILL Southern Virginia Order this Image |
MOULTON BARN Order this Image The MORMON ROW BARNS: The Moulton barn (above) and the Chambers family barn (right and below) are part of “Mormon Row”, named for the Mormon pioneers who first homesteaded in the shadows of the 13,770 feet high Grand Tetons (named by French-Canadian trappers "Les Trois Tetons" - the three breasts - in 1819) in northwestern Wyoming, in what is today Grand Teton National Park. |
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TETON WINTER II
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3 OLD BARNS Order this Image |
An AMERICAN ICON Order this Image |
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CRYSTAL CITY MILL #1 Order this Image Popularly known as the "Crystal Mill", in the 1890s and early 1900s this building above the rushing Crystal River at old Crystal City, Colorado was the hydroelectric generating plant for the Sheep Mountain Tunnel Mine. Read More about the Crystal Mill |
CRYSTAL CITY MILL #2 Order this Image |
COMMODORE MINE Creede, Colorado Order this Image |
YANKEE GIRL The hoist house of the Yankee Girl Mine still stands in the Red Mountain mining district between Ouray and Silverton, Colorado. Old photos show the Yankee Girl was once twice its current width, and surrounded with many other mine structures, most now in ruins or totally gone. Read About this Image Order this Image |
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MOUNTAIN TOP MINE Ringed by the jagged ridge lines of the San Juan mountains high above Governor Basin northwest of Ouray, Colorado, the Mountain Top Mine ore processing building is certainly in one of the most dramatically photogenic settings in all the Rockies. Order this Image |
OLD HUNDRED MINE BOARDING HOUSE Like the almost impossible location of the boarding house of the Old Hundred Mine (named for a Gospel Hymn) near Silverton, Colorado, the one open trail to the site is narrow, steep, and fraught with danger of rock slides and falls of hundreds of feet to the rocks below. Order this Image |
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GHOSTS of the ROCKIES
Ghost buildings from Red Mountain Town, St. Elmo, and Victor, Colorado; and Elkhorn and Bannack, Montana. Order this Image |
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THERESA and INDEPENDENCE MINES "May You Stand in Ore and Your Labors Be in Vein." Cornish miner saying on a sign near the Theresa mine seen here, with the Independence Mine in the distance and the Sangre de Cristo (“Blood of Christ”) mountains in the far background, near old Victor, Colorado. Order this Image |
ARCHED MINE BUILDING Near Victor, Colorado Order this Image Read More About this Image and other mines near Victor and Cripple Creek, Colorado. |
VINDICATOR The impressive ore sorting house of the Vindicator mine complex still stands overlooking the vast mining district above Victor, Colorado. Order this Image |
MOLLIE KATHLEEN MINE Cripple Creek, Colorado Order this Image |
MONARCH MINE Near Monarch Pass, Colorado Order this Image |
GAS CREEK SCHOOL Near Buena Vista, Colorado Order this Image |
STARK BROTHERS' STORE, ST. ELMO, CO. With "watercolor" texture - see detail of texture. Read More about St. Elmo Order this Image |
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BANNACK's OUTLAW SHERIFF
In the 1860's, Bannack, Montana had a sheriff who was also the leader of a murderous gang of road agents that preyed on hapless travelers. The small building to the right of the elegant Meade Hotel is Skinner's Saloon, which served as the outlaws' "headquarters" until they were captured and hung by vigilantes. Read about Bannack’s headless grave and 3-7-77. Order this Image |
ANIMAS FORKS LEGEND According to legend, the owner of the Hope Diamond once lived in this house built in 1879 in the ghost town of Animas Forks near Silverton, Colorado. Animas Forks has been deserted since the 1920s. Order this Image |
ELKHORN SOCIAL EVENTS In the late 1800s, the Gilliam Hall (left) and Fraternity Hall were the social centers of Elkhorn, Montana. The Gilliam housed a saloon and dance hall, while in the Fraternity Hall, clubs and groups met upstairs, and theatre, prize fights, school programs, concerts and dances were held downstairs. On one such festive event in the Fraternity Hall, a man was killed in an argument over what music should be played at a dance. Over 14 million dollars of gold and silver were taken out of near-by mines. Order this Image |
