Squaw Spring Petroglyphs
We visited this Kawaiisu village and petroglyph site on a clear and cold January day. There are not many petroglyphs here, but it is an interesting site nonetheless.
There are a few petroglyphs and grinding rocks to be found on the flat plateaus, but the majority of the petroglyphs are
Pinto Wye Arrastra
An arrastra is a simple and primitive gold milling device. Heavy stones are dragged over gold ore to crush it. Mercury and water are added to the floor of the arrastra to create an amalgam and capture the gold.
There is some mystery about who built and used this arrastra.
Stateline Mill
Late in 2011, we went on a trip around the Utah borderlands. One of the places we stopped at was the Stateline Mill on the Utah and Nevada border. It was a place I had wanted to check out for years, and we almost didn’t make it this time
Pictograph Boulder at Queen Mountain
Back in 2012, I decided to go out to Joshua Tree National Park and see if I could find a small pictograph site hidden in a boulder field in the backcountry. I had a good idea of where it was, but you never know for sure, and I would still
Mineral County Single Stamp Mill
Waucoba Line Cabin
In May of 2012, Micah and I took some time to go hiking and try and find a suspected cabin site high in the mountains. I wasn’t sure what we were going to find up there. I thought the only remains we would find of the old cabin site