4K Youtube version here: https://youtu.be/cqJr6XOc2jY
The ghost town you could make a violent western about. The town's history during the 1860s is kind of like the story of High Plains Drifter, except the town members eventually rose up again…
4K Youtube version here: https://youtu.be/cqJr6XOc2jY
The ghost town you could make a violent western about. The town's history during the 1860s is kind of like the story of High Plains Drifter, except the town members eventually rose up against the lawless. In fact, one of the members of the Daly Gang tried to escape and was caught very close to where the town of Lago was filmed in HPD.
This is an updated video of the ghost town of Aurora, NV. It corrects some of the mistakes I made in the original video(s) twelve years ago. I had annotations for the mistakes at the time, but I think they were taken down when Youtube changed the way annotations can be done. In any case, this version gives you an idea of how the town was even though there is nothing really there anymore. I cover the main two intersecting streets where most business and the wild west action took place, but keep in mind there were other streets around and people lived in homes surrounding the area. It is my fun place to play amateur archeologist in my attempt to imagine and recreate what the town would have been like.
Please note the pictures are just for context, to give you an idea of how the place was, and I was not in the exact spots where those pictures were taken. I note in the video why it was much more difficult this year (2023) finding my way around the town.
If you saw the screen title that has "Wide West Mining Co. 1862" on it that is interesting because it is the oldest inscribed inscription in the Eastern Sierra, but it is now a stepping stone in front of the Bodie Historic Park Museum.
I have some recent blog entries about my most recent trip(s) to Aurora, but I will also link the old blogs I did twelve years ago. Note: that if you want to read these in chronological order you want to scroll down to the bottom and start reading there after you click any of the following links:
Aurora 2023 blog series: https://tinyurl.com/54dhryxp
Aurora 2011 blog series: https://tinyurl.com/2yjsaktp
Aurora 2011 East Pine Street: https://tinyurl.com/5992e856
