Sunday, February 27, 2011

Shoshone Caves

This is our very own Grump From Pahrump at the Shoshone Caves. This is the comment he provided with the photo, "Me exploring one of the Shoshone caves, where Paul, Brooks etc lived. This one is a 3 room one!". ------------------------ From Little Paul's Book: The hillsides around Shoshone are riddled with man made caves, dug originally by itinerant miners, prospectors, and other vagabonds, who, over the years, found the town a convenient oasis in the scorching lowlands of the Amargosa Valley. Shoshone was also a water stop on the railroad line and for a time the site of a thriving hobo jungle which centered in and around the tufa caves. Crockett and Poston were broke and living in one of those caves when I arrived on October 9. Don Ward had told them (as he did me) not to leave Shoshone, that the Barker Ranch was about to be busted.





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9 comments:

  1. evilizFebruary 27, 2011 at 3:01 PM

    Grump ~ your famous now!! thanks for the pic.

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  2. St. CircumstanceFebruary 27, 2011 at 4:37 PM

    Grump/ Ken/ Stacey

    These are all really great pictures... I am so psyched for my trip out there, and the experience I am building in my head is so enhanced when you show these pictures... it creates such a better " feel" for what these places will actually be like

    Great stuff :)

    I know El Coyote better have a spicy chicken burrito on the menu for me when I get there, and a nice big Margarita on the rocks.. If they put trans -fat ( whatever that is)in it that's ok with me... but it has to have rice and re-fried beans with melted cheese on the side..

    I hope they do that there- i am a really big tipper...

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  3. Panamint PattyFebruary 27, 2011 at 8:33 PM

    Hi grump! Cool pics. Hey, BTW, is Ash meadows opened up again? Thinking about visiting Devil's Hole next month.

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  4. GrumpfrompahrumpFebruary 27, 2011 at 9:30 PM

    Panamint Patty said...

    /// Hi grump! Cool pics. Hey, BTW, is Ash meadows opened up again? Thinking about visiting Devil's Hole next month.///

    It was never really closed, just travel not recommended. It got flooded out in Dec. We are all dried out now. The Hole has been fenced in for years now to protect the prehistoric "Pupfish" that dwell there. Divers go down once a year to count the population.

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  5. Stacey L.February 28, 2011 at 12:29 AM

    I had an enchilada and it came with rice and beans...my friend had some sort of burrito. She got a margarita and boy, was it strong, so you should be happy St.

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  6. St. CircumstanceFebruary 28, 2011 at 9:45 AM

    Sounds good :) Very nice pic Stacey lol cute touch

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  7. MattFebruary 28, 2011 at 11:27 AM

    Sure is nice for us to have a resident photographer right on the edge of Death Valley. Keep 'em coming, Grump! Thanks!

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  8. evilizMarch 1, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    St. Circumstance said...
    Sounds good :) Very nice pic Stacey lol cute touch

    i LOVE that pic. Stacey showed it to me awhile before she put it up.

    i think anywhere else, it would be considered unacceptable. lol

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  9. Stacey L.March 1, 2011 at 10:58 PM

    I'm glad you guys have an open mind about the picture. That is my daughter who is 2 1/2. One of my twin daughters.

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