Mustangs
"Fritz" the laughing horse. We first came upon "Fritz" in Iceland, outside Rekavik. The Icelandic horse is noted for it beauty, breed, tolts (gate)and indurance.
Note their stocky appearance. In keeping the breed pure, Icelandic laws forbids the import of horses and exported horse are not allowed to return.
Selective breeding over the centuries has developed these beautiful horses into their current form.
Icelandic Family enjoying the beautiful day!
Meet Tristan, He was named after Tristan Dance who sent Flat Stanley to us (see story unfold in the mining gallery).
His name is "Apache" and he also runs wild and free on the Dalmonte range outside of Reno Nevada.
Sepia toned "Apache defending his harem".
Apache, checking things out.
Mamma and Apache's little girl and boy.
"Sunset Fury" This was taken at sunset not too far from Fleur De Lis Complex.
The morning sun casts long shadows on a golden newborn.
Cool drink at a watering hole! It was 110 degrees on a hot July afternoon.
"White Cloud"
Mona, of the Spirit of the wild horse advocacy, looked passionately for Starbuck for many long days only to sadly find him in his final resting place. His lineage will gallop on like he did, on winged hooves and stout of heart.
This Stallion has a harem of no less than 75 mares. He roams the Montezuma range in nevada.
A beautiful Bay seen at Stone Cabin.
Help! Penned baby waiting to get released to Palomino enclosure outside of Reno after a gather. The cowboys finally saw the little one and coralled her safely to mother. story on page 46.
Running wild and free no more! see story on the "current status of the mustang" on page 27.
Mines & Minerals
The beginning of "Flat Stanley's" odyssy with John and Jeannette in Nevada.
Hi, My name is Flat Stanley, a grade 2 school project from Tristan Dance of St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic school in Burlington Ontario Canada. I was mailed to John and Jeannette's home in Vancouver B.C. I am going to travel with them in their search for Mines Minerals & Mustangs in Nevada. I hope we find gold! Most of these places are in their book "Mines Minerals & Mustangs".
"Here I am with a grade 2 class. They had Flat Stanley there last year. Jeannette read the chapter from the Hawthorne region in her book "Mines Minerals & Mustangs on page106-11, it was fun, they were celebrating Armed Forces Day".
When reading about the Yarington Mine, I questioned the class on what we used copper for. Young Jordan pulled out an American quarter from his pocket and told me there is copper under the silver plate, and he was right!
"Here I am with John, he's showing me all about prospecting and staking claims, this is so neat. The paper shows all the information a geologist needs to know for Staking".
"I'm helping Jeannette with soil sampling and then we'll send it off to the lab for Gold testing, keep your fingers crossed "!
"This feels bumpy. I'm standing in a core box at a drill site in Yarington Nevada on page 16. The core is drilled out of the ground and will be assayed for gold. The mine has pretty blue rocks".
"I told you they were pretty'! The copper content in the rock gives them that colour".
"yikes,don't hit me". "Here I am helping John as he picks off chunks of rocks for assaying". "See the interesting orange colours? They are the sign of good geology for finding gold!"
"What a big sand box! this is the mine that John found in 1974, it's called Sante Fe mine (on page122-126) and has pretty rust colours. A lot of gold came out of this ground".
"I am in Virginia city and old America western town! That is where the family from the TV show "Bonanza" use to come to when they went into town. They also came here to get their gold assayed".
"Here I am perched on 'Bernadeen", Stinkee's burrow. Stinkee is an old timer who use to mine the hills around here, he now roams the town entertaining people with his colourful stories". Bernadeen was a wild burrow until Stinkee adopted her and they have been together a long time.
"We are high in the mountains looking for mustangs, I think I see some look!!
"There they are! Six of them!"
"This is soooo cool". "I wish I could take them all home. We are now leaving for Palomino Valley enclosure, that is where they keep all the horses that the BLM rounds up and adopts out".
"Oh Oh, Pull over! Were you wearing your seat belt? Whew!! yes I was, but those handcuffs are too big anyway. Nice officer.
"Here I am at Palomino enclosure seen on page 58-60. The BLM,(the Bureau of Land Management)feed, brand and innoculate the horses. The horses are given up for adoption and some are transported to different parts of the US that don't have mustangs".
"Wow! look what came running right beside our truck, a herd of Antelope! Can they ever run fast, which sadly is what I have to do". "Did you see the new colt that was named after Tristan? He's the first one in the Mustangs section, Thank you everyone, It's been fun, America is beautiful".
News
Some mining projects have perks like this one in British Columbia. Last June we were deposited on a nine thousand foot mountain abour 45 minutes out of Whistler, the air was crisp the sun warm.
The lighting was perfect!
Breathtaking!
John doing his Geological work.
Rock picking time!
This trip we stopped at the Poinsettia Mine our favourite place, see story on page-159. Because of its unique location buried deep in the desert, this Ghost town intrigues many visitors from Hawthorne and surrounding areas. The next photos will show you why.
Inside the main house pictured on Page-163 has a new addition, an old piano! How anyone dragged that from town up the mountain is beyond us. The site is maintained by the Boy scouts of Hawthorne and there are many overnight spooky camping trips with fireside sing-alongs. New additions keep appearing but the piano beats all!
Near the Pointsettia Saloon up the hill, someone fashioned a horseshoe pit. John throwing a few!
This is what we found in the other cabin. Photographs of a wedding! Right here on the Pointsettia mine site, probably not too far from John's claim post. Looks like a good time was held by all! We remember it 26 years ago, when the only thing different when we visited was a stud pile! Let's hope that this is not too much of a good thing.
"My eyes are by Maybelline, one brown, one blue"!
John and I were in Greenland on a mining project when, we took a trip outside of Rekjavik where I was fortunate enough to capture the birth of this geyser with my camera.
when fully erupted it ejected a water column of about 200 ft.
Morning Glory mining property.
A young eagle on Grouse mountain BC.
I couldn't resist taking this spectacular sunset at Jerico beach in Vancouver. A ferocious storm ensued.
This is a Polaroid transfer with emulsion transfer overlay. The film shot was of a captured horse trying to jump the pen when gathered. Page 47.
Poloroid transfer of mustangs over Film shot of American eagle, then repositioned over Polaroid floating gelled image to create this artistic effect. Page 157.
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