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Sunny Slopes Stamp Mill
Cave of the Four Horsemen
Mount Irish Petroglyphs
"Pahranagat Man" haunts this lonely valley. This distinctive anthropomorphic figure appears only in the Pahranagat Valley region, showing up at Mount Irish and a handful of other nearby sites but nowhere else in the American West. It's a fun challenge hunting him down among the volcanic
Motte Rimrock Reserve Pictographs
Jefferson Ghost Town
Jefferson is a very scenic area and usually has a nice little creek running down through the trees. Once an old mining town, mainly in the 1870s, it is split into two sections – Upper Jefferson and Lower Jefferson.
The lower part of town had stores, houses, and two mills: the
San Antonio and Cimarron Mines
Discoveries were first made here in 1863 by Mexican prospectors, possibly outfitted by Emanuel San Pedro. This camp never struck it rich, even though it had a few revivals over the years.
The workings here look pretty poor, and I didn’t go underground. One interesting find was the arrastra,