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Subject : [Anaglyphs] Old Man Mountain
From : "clarkaw"
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Date : Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:29:42 -0700

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This scene was originally photographed by Alfred A Hart in the 1860?s.
The peak on the right is called Old Man Mountain, with Phoenix Lake below it. In nearby Meadow Lake, a gold-rush town sprang up and in 1866 had 3000-4000 people, 600 structures, including 13 hotels, two theaters, a brewery, a bank, a stock exchange, a church, several saloons and a newspaper. When it was found that the gold was extremely hard to extract, the town quickly disappeared.
Mark Twain visited the area, and wrote ?We traveled by stage to Meadow Lake, over a villainous road, which usually led through beautiful picturesque mountain scenery, variegated with taverns, where they charge reasonable rates for dinners and get them up satisfactorily...
Here you find Washoe recklessness and improvidence repeated: A lot of highly promising but unprospected ledges, and behold! on such guarantees as these they have built a handsome town and painted it neatly, and planned wide, long streets, and got ready for a rush of business, and then--jumped aboard the stage coaches and deserted it!?
There?s nothing left of it today. We hiked all day and never saw another soul.
Art
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