Cactus Range (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tracy Henderson.

The mining industry has been labeled as economically cyclical with a historic dynamic web of human interpersonal influences contrasted against socioeconomic trends. Historians and archaeologists study regional trends to describe the macro effects human-created systems have on the landscape. Studies of towns such as Goldfield and Tonopah highlight the fact that only a few people, such as Nixon and Wingfield, could persuade tens of thousands to create cities where there was not even enough...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Civet Cat Canyon is a 5-mile long large drainage of the Cactus Range, located on north Pahute Mesa, Nye County, Nevada, on the Nevada Test and Training Range managed by Nellis Air Force Base. The Civet Cat Canyon road has become an integral passageway for personnel assigned to mission-related field work. At the intersection of Ranges 71 and 76, the canyon narrows to a view of a prehistoric and historic archaeological site that utilized the volcanic basalt canyon walls in an atypical process,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

The U. S. Air Force proposes to construct six target areas connected with roads in a 33 hectare (81.5 acres) parcel at Sulphide Well (26Ny1495) on the southern end of the Cactus Range in the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). The construction of these target areas (P- 76) will also require the upgrade of an existing 4.7 kIn (2.9 miles) long dirt road to this area from its intersection with an already upgraded gravel road (Figures 1 and 2). Although Sulphide Well was originally recorded as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Sulfide Well, Nye County, is one of many mining sites on NTTR but is atypical in the fact that mining and ranching type activities occurred at the same site and that a mine shaft was converted into a well.