Angier+Fox, Celebrating Rural America & beyond

Central Nevada's Great Wide Open, U.S. Highway 50, east of U.S. Highway 95, west of U.S. Highway 93 and north of Las Vegas to the Oregon border. U.S. Highway 6 cuts the area in two right through the middle. There are many small towns including Yerrington, Hawthorne, Goldfield, Tonopah, Caliente, Rachel, Pioche, Panaca, Hiko, Pahrump, Weeks, Luning, Mina, Ely, Denio, and more. It is full of ghost towns, including a few of the towns above, Tybo, Manhattan, Belmont, Tempiute, Gold Point, Ione,Berlin, Bristol Wells, Coaldale Jct. and more. Mining, mainly silver (another name for this area is the Silver Triangle) put it on the map and when the mines played out, the ghost towns popped up. It is one of the most remote areas in U.S. and the west.

A recent journey across the lonelier U.S. 6 and returning U.S. 50 "Loneliest Highway in America", including ghost towns, mines, cemeteries, steam trains, outhouses, relics, roads, landscapes, people, and the elusive "Road to Area 51" :-)

West to east along Nevada's U.S. 50 current alignment and some historic pavement as it crosses nearly 400 miles across the center of the state from Lake Tahoe and California on the west to the Snake Valley and Utah on east. U.S. 50 crosses the heart of the Great Basin and crosses about one dozen mountain summits in Nevada.

The best place for finding ghost towns as they fade away back into the earth. However, the ones where folks still live are the best preserved and great places to photograph...with respect!

Cemeteries, headsones, grave markers, epitaphs, statues, angels, stone, steel, iron.

Ancient rock art (pictographs) found in Nevada, USA. Some is found along the ancient shoreline of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan from thousands of years ago, others are carved into volcanic tuff found in remote areas of central Nevada, other sites are found in the south, perhaps carved by ancestor of the Yuman tribes. We'll never know. All is precious; sacred and most is without modern meaning. Modern man can only speculate their meaning and their placement. Perhaps they were the graffiti of the day carved by the young, perhaps they have religious meaning.

Lovelock, Pershing County. Imlay, Unionville, Thunder Mountain, Lovers' Locks.

Winnemucca and Golconda, Paradise Valley, Denio, Orovada, Humboldt County, Nev.

Winnemucca's Humboldt County Museum

Northeastern corner of Nevada, including Elko and Wells.

Carson Valley, just south of Carson City is a Great Basin valley known for its small-town rural charm and its many, lush ranches most dating back prior to statehood in 1864. Annually, Carson Valley's two principle towns, Minden and Gardnerville, host Carson Valley days in late spring and the Buckaroo Fest Ranch Rodeo. In fall, the cottonwood trees glow golden at the foot of the Carson Range by Nevada's first town, Genoa. Winter coats the landscape with a dusting of white and summer the waters from the Carson River keep the valley lush and green.

Western center of Nevada: Churchill County and Fallon. Grimes Point rock art, US 50, Sand Mountain.

Austin, Battle Mountain and Lander County, just a little north of the middle of Nevada.

Eureka County, middle of Nevada on U.S. 50.

Ely, East Ely, Ruth & McGill, White Pine County, Great Basin National Park, Nevada Northern Railway

Hawthorne, America's Patriotic Home and Mineral County, also home of Walker Lake.

Largest of Nevada's 17 counties and second largest county in the U.S., Nye County is about the middle of the state. Towns and cities include Tonopah, Manhattan, Round Moutain, Carvers, Beatty, Pahrump, Gabbs.

Goldfield, Esmeralda County was once the largest city in Nevada about 1910 when nearly 20,000 called it home during North America's last Gold Rush in the early 20th Century. Today, fewer than 500 call the entire county home and is one of the sparsest counties in the U.S. Goldfield now is known for the National Junk Car Forest (World's Largest).

Yerington, Mason Valley, Smith Valley, Lyon County, Nevada

Neon and glitz. Las Vegas, Laughlin, Valley of Fire, Clark County, Nev.

Taken from a window seat while flying over Nevada to or from California.

92nd Annual Winnemucca Tri County Fair and Stampede, Labor Day Weekend 2013. Highlights include Pig wrestling, rodeo, parade, tractor and truck pull and a lot of fun!

Working cowboys from Nevada and The West compete annually in this working man's rodeo. No star athletes here, just a gathering real and working cowboys and their families competing in real ranch events such a team branding and wild cow milking along with the classic team roping and sandle-bronc riding.

The Tri County Fair in WInnemucca, Nevada. Shooting the West fair photography workshop. The fair is nearly 100 years old and started its run as a rodeo which it still features today.

With nearly two-thirds of the world without internet access, Project Loon is Google's pioneering program designed to connect them to the world. The concept is launch multiple balloons to orbit the earth 20km above the surface, well above aircraft and weather events to act as relays to tie the internet all together. Here is one of the launch sites in Winnemucca, Nevada, which I documented during my coverage of Shooting the West XXVII in March.