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American Flats | The Bunkhouse Chronicle
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8230;field notes from the Figure 8 Ranch. January 5, 2017. An Old Haunt, Torn Down. Bummer news this morning from an old friend and fellow denizen of the Nevada desert–they have finally demolished the ruins at American Flats. To those of us who once tromped around in this amazing and ghostly wonderland, tucked into the hills outside of Virginia City, it comes like a gut punch. It was dangerous as hell to be running around in there at all, but we didn’t consider that much in those days. It isn’t har...
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A Hunting Story | The Bunkhouse Chronicle
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8230;field notes from the Figure 8 Ranch. January 2, 2017. Sunrise, near Hampton, Oregon. This piece originally appeared in the Nugget News, November 1, 2016. Last week I went elk-hunting with some friends, out past Hampton, in the big and mostly empty desert and juniper country. Sometimes you just know. All night I had been hugging a kind of premonition. Something was telling me that I had rung the bell, read the book, and lit the candle in the proper order, and that I would have a bull down ear...At fi...