"Welcome to Nowhere": Temporary and Permanent Life in the Remote Black Rock Desert at Granite Creek Station
Author(s): Carolyn White
Year: 2017
Summary
Present-day Granite Creek Station is located on the edge of the Black Rock Desert, 10 miles north of Gerlach where the sign welcoming visitors to town says, "Welcome to Nowhere." Described as an "awful gloomy" resting place by one of many travellers, Granite Creek Station was one of several significant stopping places for emigrants, travelers, saddle trains, and stagecoaches passing through the Black Rock Desert region of northwestern Nevada, USA, on their way to California in the mid-19th century. The site functioned as a campsite, trading post, ranch, stagecoach station, and military camp and research into each function reveals much about space and place in the west.
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"Welcome to Nowhere": Temporary and Permanent Life in the Remote Black Rock Desert at Granite Creek Station. Carolyn White. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435248)
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Keywords
General
19th Century
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Emigrant Trails
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rural landscape
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th-20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 465