There's Gold in Them Thar Hills - a photo on Flickriver

            The quote, from Mark Twain's novel, "The American Claimant" (and Yosemite Sam in a number of Looney Tunes cartoons), is originally attributed to a Georgia-based assayer, who shouted the phrase from the steps of the Lumpkin County Courthouse in 1849 in an attempt to keep miners from leaving Georgia for the California Gold Rush.

76 years later, a young man named C.C. Julian and the Western Lead Mine Company used a similar logic to entice miners out to Leadfield, here in the Titus Canyon of California, where gold had struck out, but lead was promised to be aplenty.  It was not true, and investors were bilked out of tens of thousands of dollars.

North of what was Leadfield, the Titus Canyon Road makes a hard turn to the West, wending its way through an increasingly steep slot canyon before exiting the Grapevine Mountains and opening up into the open sand dunes of the Stovepipe Wells area of Death Valley.  This is the beginning of the route through the slot canyon.  I thought that the late afternoon sun reflecting off the sandstone peaks created a beautiful golden hue against the darker colors in the shadows and the bright blue sky above.

Taken in: United States / California / Leadfield (show map)

Taken on: December 17, 2018

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