For more than two decades now, some friends of mine have been maintaining the Boxcar Cabin (also known as the Buckhorn) out near Death Valley. Before its life in the “Adopt-a-Cabin” program, this simple two-room cabin was once a train boxcar used by miners. Mining prospects were first worked here in the 1930s. In 1958, a prospector named William Carpenter filed the Buckhorn claims. The cabin probably dates from that time; how it got out here, though, remains a mystery.
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