At its height, Austin had over 10,000 residents ... Silver Camps,” Tonopah quickly became a bustling mining town that helped ...

In a Northern Nevada boomtown, under several layers of ... It filled in gaps in the Black history of the mining town, an integral setting in the Silver State’s founding. Joe Curtis, a Virginia ...

At the end of town, a shuttered train depot bakes beneath the desert sun. These fragmented structures are all that’s left of Rhyolite, once one of Nevada’s most prosperous mining towns.