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Argentum
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�Argentum 2012
What is art? This is a timeless question best left to museum curators, art historians,
testy critics, and creative types arguing fervently in smoke-filled bars. A more
uncomplicated question may be “Why is there art?”
For those of you who are encouraged, entertained, educated, -- and maybe
“bewitched, bothered and bewildered” -- the answer to “why” is as unique as each
individual artist and each individual viewer.
As you turn the pages in this year’s Argentum, I hope you are intrigued by the
interesting ways your fellow artists and authors view the world. You may find yourself
asking, “What was the photographer thinking at the moment he or she triggered the
shutter?” “Why does this author’s words make me question my beliefs?” “What did the
bead maker feel at the moment a flower blossomed from the flame?”
The world is full of questions. Perhaps art invites us to seek out answers. Enjoy.
Wendy Porter, Community member “Peace” Watercolor
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�Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s
Artist
Title
Page
Wendy Porter
Lorraine Giurlani
Kristen Orr and Gail Rappa
Lois Ports
Kristen Orr and Gail Rappa
Ann Hagland
Megan Anderson
Thelma Richie Homer
Karen Dannehl
William Becker
Jeannie Rosenthal
Wendy Porter
Allan Fisk
Summer Callender
Jennifer Pierce
G. Edward Winch
Patricia Gray
Ruth Collins
Cindy Joyce
Roger Hockemier
Gayla Rockwell
Nancy Harris McLelland
Susan Summer Elliot
Will Barber
Issac Duran
Janet Sanchez
Ron Richardson
Dan Thurston
Debbie Heaton-Lamp
Mary Ann Plavi
Megan Anderson
Gim Briggs
Paige Allen
Michele Barney
Kendra Thompson
Peace............................................................ 2
Wall Mirror................................................... 4
Shades of Green........................................... 6
Metamorphosis............................................. 7
Blossoms...................................................... 8
.
Begonia Bug................................................. 9
Breaking Dawn........................................... 10
Performance............................................... 11
Solutions..................................................... 11
Turkish Delight. .......................................... 12
.
The Sound of Heaven................................. 13
Sarah.......................................................... 14
Anniversary Quilt........................................ 15
Michele’s Pastels......................................... 15
.
Mandala..................................................... 16
Mandala..................................................... 17
Lullaby No. Thirty-Something...................... 18
Mojave....................................................... 20
.
Horizon...................................................... 21
Old Fishing Boat, Walker Lake, NV. ............ 22
.
Grackles..................................................... 24
.
Protecting the Young................................... 25
Beach......................................................... 26
The Shack................................................... 27
Three Poems About You:............................. 28
The Resentments You Carry......................... 28
Your Life Passes........................................... 28
Your Life Is Scattered in the Lawn................ 29
Ink Blue...................................................... 30
Homestead Under Storm Clouds................ 32
Eyes of a Stranger. ...................................... 33
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Black Hat. .................................................. 34
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Springtime in NE Nevada............................ 35
The Generator............................................ 36
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Lamoille Aspens.......................................... 38
Pogonip...................................................... 39
Perky and A’Poppin!!.................................. 40
Fall Bloom. ................................................. 42
.
Fall Woods.................................................. 44
Up in the Air............................................... 45
Summer Air. ............................................... 46
.
Taking the Leap........................................... 47
Cover: Kristen Frantzen Orr, Grasshopper Kaleidoscope
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�Lorraine Giurlani, GBC student “Wall Mirror” Photograph
This publication is made possible by the generosity of:
GBC’s Office of Academic Affairs
GBC’s Intellectual and Cultural Enrichment (ICE) Committee
GBC Foundation
Special thanks to Karen Dannehl and Tanya Stokes for their help in guiding the creation
of Argentum 2012, and to David Orr and Kristen Frantzen Orr for bead photography.
Kudos to Marin Wendell and Erin Radermacher of Everything Elko for their
support of local arts and help in producing Argentum 2012.
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�Argentum Selection Committee - 2012
Thanks to the following community members who gave so generously of their
time to select this year’s submissions for Argentum. Your volunteered efforts and
expertise are greatly appreciated.
� ailey
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Billington, Advocate for the Arts
Bailey Billington was born and raised in Elko, Nevada. She has been involved in visual
art from a young age including singing and playing the flute in band and in her church.
She began acting in theatre productions at Great Basin College while in high school
and also performed in many plays while attending GBC. She also took up photography
as a GBC student. After graduating with an Associate of Arts, Billington transferred to
Northern Arizona University where she studied Anthropology and Photography, and
completed her Bachelor of Arts degree. Billington returned to Elko and continued acting
with the Silver Stage Players. Today, she is a member of the City of Elko Arts and Culture
Advisory Board, Rotary International and works for the American Red Cross. She enjoys
working on her photography portfolio and on her many hobbies with her family and
new son.
� ichard
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Hooton, Author
Richard Hooton was born and raised in southern Idaho, spending his early years on his
grandfather’s ranch near Sun Valley. A member of Western Writers of America, he is the
author of the acclaimed historical fiction novel, Soldier Hollow, and his most recent
release, The Lamb Cart. He still maintains his roots in the Intermountain West, and is
currently a resident of Elko, Nevada, where he is researching and working on his next
novel, The Mustang Riders.
� ynne
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Kistler, Artist
Lynne Kistler was born in Washington D.C., and raised in Reno, Nevada. She is a
fifth-generation Nevadan. She graduated from the University of Nevada Reno, with a
Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters in Art Education. Kistler taught high school art for
30 years in Reno. She then moved to Lamoille to ride and drive her horses, and teach art
at Great Basin College. She enjoys creating her own artwork and is now getting ready
for her own art show at the Northeastern Nevada Museum next year.
� ene
G
Russell, Photographer
Gene Russell was born in northern California. Growing into his musical self, his early
creations were of notes, not prints. Russell found his passion as a photographer while
in Houston, Texas. Since the early 1980’s he has been sculpting his craft in fashion,
portraiture and product photography. His client list includes the Queen of England, both
Bush presidents, as well as notable film stars. Russell settled in Elko with his late wife,
Karen, and now calls Elko County home.
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�Kristen Frantzen Orr and Gail Rappa, GBC faculty “Shades of Green”
Flameworked
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�Metamorphosis
Cold, hard rods of trapped color
Coaxed into the intensity of dancing flame
Molten wraps of vivid hues
Flowing, reacting, merging
Creativity once hidden, now transparent
Uniquely formed, its shape emerges
Placed within the kiln it rests
Time to strengthen, to anneal
Still glass, yet transformed
The bead emerges
Lois Ports GBC student
“There is something very mesmerizing
about working with molten glass to
create small works of art.”
– Lois Ports, GBC student
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�Kristen Frantzen Orr and Gail Rappa, GBC faculty “Blossoms” Flameworked
glass bead, sterling silver, amethyst
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�Ann Hagland, GBC student “Begonia Bug” Flameworked glass focal bead sculpture
Making glass beads satisfies a need to use my
hands to produce something that pleases me,
challenges me and always has a bit of whimsy.
– Ann Hagland, GBC student
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�Megan Anderson, GBC student “Breaking Dawn” Photograph
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�Performance
Solutions
It must have been wonderful once
Pillories!
no lines tying us to false light,
Centered in the town square
when nothing blighted the landscape
head and hands locked in wood
when on a dark night
exposed to public scorn:
one leg at a time
Pillories!
the moon
stepping out onto a stage
What a good idea
pinpricked only with stars
for
strutted her stuff
wily politicians
like an old burlesque queen
priests that prey
blowing kisses
lawbreakers
beaming promises
jawbreakers
revealing not quite everything
errant husbands
leaving us wanting more.
run-away brides
Oh,
prodigal sons
Moon…
wolves in sheep’s clothing
snakes in the grass
maybe even
bad cooks!
Pillories!
WHAT
A
GOOD
IDEA!
Thelma Richie Homer Community Member
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�Karen Dannehl, GBC student “Turkish Delight” Jewelry - Necklace Argentium Silver
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�The Sound of Heaven
All of the players, all of the singers are lined up.
No tuning was required, no practice was needed.
Their faces are bright, their smiles are wide.
Each is prepared to give all that they have.
And suddenly, without hesitation, it begins.
A low rumble is heard from thousands of drums.
A hum comes forth from a million throats.
Slowly, each instrument enters in turn.
Pianos and Organs, Trumpets and Tubas,
Mandolins and Violins, Guitars and Sitars,
Flutes and Piccolos, Chimes and Harps,
All of the instruments that ever were join together.
Millions of voices, never missing a verse,
Millions of fingers, never missing a note,
Millions of drummers, never missing a beat,
Millions of players, never missing a step.
Each one is perfectly tuned, perfectly together.
Each one is amplified by the stars themselves,
Resonating with the music, giving praise to the Creator.
It lasts for days, the players never tiring or slowing.
The song is brand new, never heard before,
Yet the players know it all, through and through.
Impossible to imagine, yet fully realized in an instant.
Soon after it ends, another, more astonishing song begins.
William Becker GBC student/staff
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�Jeannie Rosenthal, GBC student “Sarah” Jewelry - Bracelet, Copper, silver, brass and stone
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�Incorporating old fabrics
and recycling clothing into
useful creations has been
Wendy Porter, Community member “Anniversary Quilt”
Quilt,
Cotton
a welcome challenge.
Creating a quilt from a
50-year-old maid-of-honor
gown brought back
pleasant memories.
– Wendy Porter, Community member
Wendy Porter, Community member “Michele’s Pastels”
Quilt,
Cotton
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�Allan Fisk, GBC student “Mandala” Colored pencil on black paper
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�Summer Callender, GBC student “Mandala” Colored pencil on black paper
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�Lullaby No. Thirty-something
There is meaning
in the mediocrity of days
Listening close enough
to hear its humming through the seemingly endless
pointless, repetitious minutes
of the day
That,
the listening
and actually hearing,
is the most difficult daily task
But if I am still enough
a thin line
of colorful sound vibrates—
Often briefly
Always beautifully—
and if I chose to listen,
soft transcendental truths
alight upon heart and mind
___________________________
I’m rocking my baby boy to sleep
His head rests, restless on my chest
tossing left, tossing right
fighting sleep, welcoming stillness, drifting between
I notice the books on the shelf
are falling over
There is an urge to straighten them
-ImmediatelyThen to tackle the basket of laundry
sleeping on my daughter’s bed
where she should at the time be resting
But she is drifting between sleep and awake
Lying with her father
in the living room, spilling over with the day’s clutter
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�So many unfinished tasks
are falling over
Like books on a shelf
Urging to be straightened
So many unfinished chores
collecting dust in the corners of our house
In the cracks of my day
Perceptions of who I am and wanted to be
slipping through imagined crevices
-My soul retreats thinking about it all___________________________
In one small flicker
my son’s breathing slows
Peacefully drifts
His head no longer tossing
but resting on my chest
My breath involuntarily follows
In
out
in
out,
breathe…
Our body heat sticky this dusk of summer night
Yet he turns in to nuzzle closer
and I, too, nestle into our swarthy cocoon
The books will fall over again
One basket of laundry will be replaced
by another
The unfinished mediocrity
of the day continues
to stagnate all around me
But this
This
transcends tedious daily drudgery
Inside this sticky cocoon
there is humming – glorious soft humming
Jennifer Pierce GBC faculty
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�G. Edward Winch, GBC student “Mojave” Acrylic
I’m a free range artist practicing in cartoons, illustrations,
caricatures, psychedelic paintings, and photography. I’m always
exploring new ways to express art.
– G. Edward Winch, GBC student
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�G. Edward Winch, GBC student “Horizon” Acrylic, Ink
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�Patricia Gray, Community member “Old Fishing Boat, Walker Lake, Nevada” Acrylic, Ink on Clayboard
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�It’s a lifelong ambition —
pursuing fine art. Among
my favorite subjects are
landscapes depicting the
solitude of Nevada.
– Patricia Gray, Community member
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�Ruth Collins, Community member “Grackles” Photograph
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�Cindy Joyce, Community member “Protecting the Young” Photograph
“I believe photography is a unique form
of art that reflects one’s soul.”
– Cindy Joyce, Community member
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�Roger Hockemier, Community member “Beach” Photograph
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�Gayla Rockwell, GBC Student “The Shack” Photograph
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� Three Poems About You
The Resentments You Carry
Your Life Passes
You face an elevator
Your life passes
holding your resentments,
before your eyes
grudges and angers
behind your back.
folded and packed.
You press the button.
Your life passes,
The door slides open.
like the guy says,
You step inside.
while on your way
“I’m free,” you say
somewhere else.
as you speed up or down.
You think you know
Your life passes
what floor you’re on.
as you grasp at straws
You think the baggage
arrange chairs
is gone.
on sinking ships
Wherever you are,
Your life passes
you hold resentments
regardless of time zones
next to your heart,
or metronomes.
near where you breathe.
And the ticking
of your days
marks wasted time
and useless ways.
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�Your Life Is Scattered on the Lawn
Carrying a well-packed
U-Haul box to the car,
you trip over the hose,
fall flat and hard, arms out,
as if to thrust a desperate gift
on anybody passing by.
The street is empty.
No one walks a dog,
rides past on a bike.
No one stoops to help.
Your life is scattered on the lawn,
in the gutter.
Your photos blow away from you.
You look at the contents
spilled from the box
important only an hour ago
and cry and cry
for your life and your stuff.
Nancy Harris McLelland Community member
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Susan Summer Elliott, Community member “Ink Blue” Photograph
�Will Barber, Community member “Homestead Under Storm Clouds” Photograph
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�Isaac Duran, GBC student “Eyes of a Stranger” Photograph
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�Janet Sanchez, GBC student “Black Hat” Photograph
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�Ron Richardson, Community member “Springtime in NE Nevada” Photograph
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�The Generator
We have a place on Jackstone Creek
At the foot of the Adobe Hills.
It’s nothing big or fancy,
But for us it fills the bill.
It’s not the Rubies or Lamoille,
But there’s beauty to be had.
We have a creek that flows year ‘round;
For Nevada that’s not bad.
So I call my friend Bret Murphy,
He knows this stuff more than me.
“That valve below the solenoid
Don’t seem right to me.”
There’s trees along the driveway;
The green’s a pretty sight.
The generator shed’s in back.
Life is good when things go right.
Of course it’s not stocked in Elko,
So I phone up Salt Lake.
“We’ll put it on the bus tonight,
Same model, number, make.”
But with the good there’s problems too,
And we’ve had our share of those.
Two miles of road become two miles of mud
When it thaws after the snows.
Next day at noon Greyhound calls,
“Your parts have just come in.”
I hurry down to pick them up,
Then go right home again.
But the problem that I dread the most
(I’ve come to hate the sound)
Is my wife calling me at work,
“The generator’s down.”
This doesn’t seem too difficult,
Pull off the old, put in the new.
But the diesel still won’t start,
Guess there’s something else to do.
Now I’m not a good mechanic
But there’s a little bit I know
I’d best go home and take a look;
Perhaps I can make it go.
I go through it all again once more,
It ought to start, but no.
I recheck everything I’ve done
But I still can’t make it go.
First I snug down all the bolts;
The wires all seem tight.
But I guess I missed the problem,
‘Cause something sure ain’t right.
My wife come out, “Can I help?”
“No,” snarling, I growl.
She calls away my helper,
“We’ll leave dad alone for now.”
My five-year-old comes out to help.
“Daddy, why won’t the engine turn?”
I smile at him; I’m glad he’s here.
“Son, that’s what we’re trying to learn.”
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Together we check it out;
I poke and probe and pry.
But it seems past my ability
To find the reason why.
I take it apart, redo it all;
This time should do the trick.
But when I try to start it,
It still won’t move a lick.
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�“Dammit.” I stomp outside the shed,
Throw the wrench across the yard.
“This --- ---- thing’s a piece of ----.”
It shouldn’t be this hard.
Then I look to the western sky;
The sun is getting low.
Perhaps I ought to try a prayer,
I’ve done all else I know.
“Dear Lord, I don’t deserve it,
For my family, please, not me.”
Then I face the generator;
“Now START, you S.O.B.”
My poems are literally true –
an attempt to find romance in
modern, everyday life.
– Dan Thurston, Community Member
I’ve done all that I can do;
I’ll try it just once more.
Then wonder upon wonder,
The old diesel starts to roar.
I go inside to wash my hands
And my wife’s not quite so grim.
My little boy is happy;
Dad’s a hero, still, to him.
But I know I didn’t start it;
It was the words I spoke out there.
But you, the listener, can decide,
Was it the cussing or the prayer?
Dan Thurston Community member
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�Debbie Heaton-Lamp, Community member “Lamoille Aspens” Watercolor
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�Mary Ann Plavi, GBC student “Pogonip” Photograph
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�I’ve always been ‘that girl
with the camera…always
wanting to capture the
Megan Anderson, GBC student “Perky and A Poppin’!!” Photograph
memories. My children are
my constant inspiration, as
are the moon, flowers and
nature in general.
– Megan Anderson, GBC student
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Gim Briggs, GBC staff “Fall Bloom” Photograph
�Paige Allen, Community member “Fall Woods” Photograph
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�Michele Barney, Community member “Up in the Air” Photograph
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�Summer Air
Summer Air, Simple, Subtle, Saturating
Frigid, bitter, expansive lake below
Building audacity to make that leap
Standing on this intimidating cliff
Trying not to look below
Just force myself off
Force myself into the abyss beneath
It always looks so much higher
From the tippy top
Always looks so much more intimidating
Instigating, irrational, implacable
Falling, feeling fearless, flailing
Lightening I feel in the floor of my stomach,
lightening I crave so deeply
My body’s disbelief that my mind actually did it
Then SPLAT. The water welcomes me
Will this deepening water like me too much?
Mercilessly want to keep me all to itself?
Then I break through that barrier to the vital oxygen
And take the deepest, most genuine breath of my life.
I feel SO alive
Living, Laughter, Lustrous
Kendra Thompson GBC staff
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As I paged through the April issue of Smithsonian magazine, a headline -- “Burning Man” -caught my eye. A commentary on Nevada’s counter-culture event, I wondered? Nope. Instead,
the article detailed the creative efforts of Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang who “paints” with
fireworks and gunpowder.
Guo-Qiang may be “the only artist in human history who has had some one billion people gaze
simultaneously at one of his artworks,” the writer proclaims. Guo-Qiang’s “fireworks sculpture”
was televised worldwide for the opening of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, and, according to
the article, Guo-Qiang’s subsequent “huge flaming earth sculptures…are meant to be seen from
space.” The author reports that Guo-Qiang wants to open “a dialogue with the universe.”
It was a much more modest bunch chosen to be a part of this year’s Argentum. None mentioned
aspirations of grandeur, but most looked deeper inside and commented on the therapeutic
nature of creating art.
“Writing is the best form of therapy one could have,” noted Emily Hardy. “Paper does not judge,
nor does the pen mock.”
For many, art was an escape from everyday life, an indulgence in their creative side, sanctuary
from a stressful world. They wrote, painted, focused a lens, carved, and manipulated metal and
glass, all in hopes of capturing a special moment and preserving it for all time.
“Art, to me, has always been the most noble and highest of callings,” wrote Nicholas LaPalm. “As
artists we are ambassadors, responsible for carrying the words, images, ideals, and inspiration to
the imaginations of the masses. Moreover, we are bound to the virtues of art, and indentured to
upholding the notions of truth and of beauty.”
Think art isn’t important? Think again. -- Lora Minter, Editor
Kristen Frantzen Orr, GBC Faculty/Spring Creek “Fresh Powder” Digital Photo
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�Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s
Artist Title
Kristen Frantzen Orr
Janet Correa
Cassie Rantapaa
Evelynn Thompson
Maggie Corbari
Jeannie Bailey
Wil Becker
KM Withers
Patricia Gray
Kristen Orr and Gail Rappa
Sally Rampe
Jolina Adams
Brandee Alexus Betancourt
Mike McFarlane
Mark Curtis
Jennifer Pierce
Heather Boyer
Patty Fox
Heather Wines
Jason Wallace
Paul Bowen
Anthony DeBellis
Nicholas LaPalm
Lauren Petrie
Brian Kump
Andrea Medina-Visscher
Shania Cook
Heidi Stevens
Jayme Cornmesser
Daniel Stevenson
Tanya L. Stokes
Sidne Teske
Katy Cooper
Cindy Joyce
Katie Glennon
Khatlyn Micheli
Megan Frandsen
Ami Rogers
Emily Hardy
Debbie Heaton-Lamp
Martha Watson
Thelma Richie Homer
Jana Tompkins
Genny Albitre
Page
Fresh Powder.................................................... 2
Bullet Proof...................................................... 6
Wine Pour........................................................ 7
Dancers............................................................ 8
Autumn Afternoon.......................................... 10
Acquiescence................................................. 10
Efflorescent Rendezvous................................. 11
Sanctuary Lake Powell.................................... 12
Hillside Home, Marietta, NV.......................... 13
Golden Nocturne........................................... 14
Heart Leaf Earrings & Pendant........................ 15
Antique Key with Red Heart........................... 15
Black Onyx Ring............................................. 16
Peach Bowl.................................................... 16
Sailing on Lake Superior................................. 17
Repositioned.................................................. 18
Waiting for the Loom...................................... 19
Tippets........................................................... 20
Brodie............................................................ 21
Time............................................................... 22
Winter Reflection............................................ 23
Northern Nevada Ore Train............................ 24
Melancholic Skies........................................... 25
Autumn Showers............................................ 26
Roll of Honor................................................. 27
Old Wagon Wheel.......................................... 27
They Changed Today...................................... 28
Saddle............................................................ 29
Tuck............................................................... 30
Gone to Seed................................................. 31
Gholley’s Breakfast......................................... 32
Winter at the Stone House.............................. 33
Whispy Winter................................................ 34
A Buttery Glow in Winter’s Snow.................... 35
Into the White................................................ 36
The Night is White.......................................... 37
Wild One....................................................... 38
Secret............................................................. 39
Switched........................................................ 40
Sunflower Burst.............................................. 42
Family Walk.................................................... 44
Wanderlust..................................................... 45
Words............................................................ 46
Eye on Sunset................................................. 47
Cover: Loretta Reed, GBC Student/Spring Creek, Cowboy Cathedral, Digital Photo
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Thanks to the following community members who gave so generously of their time
to select this year’s entries to Argentum. Your expertise and efforts, so graciously
volunteered, are greatly appreciated.
�C h a r l i e E k b u r g , Photographer
Charlie Ekburg has been interested and involved in
photography since the 1950s. In the early 1980s he founded
Sweet Light Photography to serve part-time customers with
darkroom services as well as the creation of images. Ekburg
revamped his business plan in the mid-1990s in order to
produce stock photographic images and do assignment
photography. He is currently the official photographer for
the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. (Recently a photo
he took of cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell was projectd
onto the jumbo screen in the middle of New York City’s
Times Square.) Ekburg also produces exclusive images
for the National Basque Festival and the Ruby Mountain
Balloon Festival, and is creator of the official RMBF poster.
His images have been printed in Nevada Magazine,
The Santa Fean, and The Los Angeles Times. In addition,
Ekburg is an adjunct instructor for Great Basin College
where he teaches photographic concepts. His website is
www.sweetlightphotography.com.
This publication is made possible by the generosity of:
GBC’s Office of Academic Affairs
GBC’s Arts and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Committee
Special thanks to Tanya Stokes, Karen Dannehl, and Karen Kimber for their help
in guiding Argentum 2013. Thanks, also, to GBC’s Media Services for entry photography
and publicity support, and to Tim Beasley for computer/web assistance.
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��Ta m Fo r e e , Artist and Educator
Tam Foree graduated from Colorado State University
with a Bachelor of Art Education degree in 1985. That
same year she began working for the Elko County
School District as an Art Specialist for elementary
students. After a successful career teaching in public
schools, she retired to pursue another career as a
“classical realist” painter. “Leaving the educational
field was difficult for me,” Foree says, “so I chose
to continue teaching art by offering lessons to
homeschoolers and after-school students one day a
week. Now I can focus on being an artist when I grow
up!” Foree lives in Spring Creek with her husband.
They have two daughters who are attending UNR.
�B e t h C a r p e l ,
Writer and Photographer
Beth Carpel grew up in Washington, D.C. and
lived in various parts of the country before
settling in Spring Creek where she built her
house (a collaborative effort) and raised two
sons (also collaborative – it does take a village).
Excerpts from her novel, Assembling Georgia, and
examples of her photography, including nature
photography from Nevada and the wetlands of
Florida as well as scenes from Asia, can be found at
www.bethcarpel.com.
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�Janet Correa, GBC Student/West Wendover “Bullet Proof” Digital Photo Collage
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�Cassie Rantapaa, GBC Student/Elko “Wine Pour” Acrylic
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�Evelynn Thompson, Community Member/Elko “Dancers” Acrylic
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�“I start with colors and shapes and put them
together in a way that speaks to me.“
– Evelynn Thompson
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�Maggie Corbari, GBC Student/Winnemucca “Autumn Afternoon” Digital Photo
Acquiescence
Irises sway in the breeze, promises of sweet
perfume and pollen tease
fluttering butterflies and bumblebees.
High, full sun beckons blades of grass to rise
up and become more than they are,
anticipating falling blossoms.
Tiny green crabapples swell into heavy red orbs,
branches creaking, groaning.
Lengthened summer rays spill from streaming
cotton-balled clouds, slicing afternoon air –
shadows across yesterday’s sky.
Nipping frost in the air and on the skin:
apples sweeter versions of themselves in
lingering Indian summer. Sweet perfume, pollen –
not-so-distant
memories
the moment light becomes
periwinkle twinkling stars and breath is a long
exhale
sinking between mountains and moon.
Jeannie Bailey GBC Staff/Elko
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�Wil Becker, GBC Student/Battle Mountain “Efflorescent Rendezvous” Digital Photo
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�KM Withers, GBC Faculty/Pahrump “Sanctuary Lake Powell” Oil on Canvas
“� his image started from a photo from one
T
of my houseboat expeditions ... but it has
changed to one expressing the beauty of
reflected light into this unknown cove
and the peace of nightfall … Sanctuary.”
– KM Withers
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�Patricia Gray, Community Member/Spring Creek “Hillside Home, Marietta, NV” Acrylic
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�Kristen Frantzen Orr/Gail Rappa, GBC Faculty/Spring Creek/Tuscarora “Golden Nocturne”
Jewelry
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�Sally Rampe, GBC Student/Elko “Heart Leaf Earrings & Pendant” Copper, Silver
“� orking glass over a torch
W
is a huge adrenaline rush
… nothing gives me more
pleasure than flame-working
glass beads. In this technique
the bead is formed directly
onto another surface.”
– Jolina Adams
Jolina Adams, GBC Staff/Winnemucca
“Antique
Key with Red Heart”
Glass Bead
Flameworked
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�Brandee Alexus Betancourt, GBC Student/Elko “Black Onyx Ring” Black Onyx, Silver
Bezel, Copper Band
“� aking bowls from singleM
piece raw wood is a
rewarding challenge. You
never know exactly what
character of wood will be
exposed after turning on the
lathe. It’s amazing what you
can make from your friends’
and neighbors’ trees.”
– Mike McFarlane
Mike McFarlane, GBC VP Academic Affairs/Elko “Peach Bowl” Wood
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�Mark Curtis, GBC President/Elko “Sailing on Lake Superior”
Stained
Glass, Lead Came, Copper Foil
“� have always loved to work creatively with my hands.
I
About 25 years ago I became interested in stained glass
and church window restoration. This has become my
primary creative and artistic outlet.”
– Mark Curtis
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�Repositioned
Here a maternal juxtaposition
seeking to just position
myself away from
two children, my children
constantly, so selfishly
reappearing on top of MY Self
Only to position myself
at each day’s end
impossibly close to them
Close enough to gently cradle
the juxtaposition of
Someday
Two selves
Not needing me so close
Jennifer Pierce GBC Staff/Elko
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�Heather Boyer, Community Member/Wells “Waiting for the Loom” Digital Photo
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�Patty Fox, GBC Faculty/Elko “Tippets” Watercolor
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�Heather Wines, Community Member/Tuscarora “Brodie” Digital Photo
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�Time
Silence within a scream, stars at noon
Smiling eyes behind a frown, leap of faith
Mysteries exposed, secrets unknown
Reality in control, monkey on our backs
Flight in captivity, magic carpet ride
Lost in the pursuit, ghost of our fate
Distance betrothed to desire, needs without
Desperation within us, at the mercy of its whim
Daydreams of delight, controller of possibilities
Senseless machine of nature, governor of our success
Dreams given life, rectifier of mistakes
Decision of fate, impossibility to dream
Eras bygone, memories of compassion
Examination of values, quality inspired by need
Enormity measured, calculation by the masses
Intangible truths, lightning in the sky
Walls of darkness, moths in a tornado
Discipline inherent, steamroller of wrath
Ruler by defeat, king of futility
Measure of our lives, measure of our success
Lifetimes but a moment, moments become lifetimes
Jason Wallace Community member/Elko
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�Paul Bowen, GBC Student/Elko “Winter Reflection” Digital Photo
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�Anthony DeBellis, GBC Student/Ely “Northern Nevada Ore Train” Digital Photo
“I am a fireman and conductor on the Nevada Northern Railway in Ely.
Everything at the railroad is original, and mostly dates back to pre-1912. I try and
recreate photos that could have been taken 100 years ago with what is left today.”
– Anthony DeBellis
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�Melancholic Skies
Today is grey, as the skies are filled, of clouds without silver lining.
The fog extends, transcends, then ends, where the light-blonde sun is shining.
If only the grey, inside of me, would end just as abruptly,
Or if the grey in man, which forces his hand, to feast and rule corruptly,
I’d picnic there, and only stare, at the cruel dark clouds behind me.
And I’d invite all of you, the animals too, to rest under Eden’s fig tree.
But alas, it doesn’t end, instead black and white blend, in harmonic co-existence.
Thus, I’m destined to be sad, mankind: To be bad. And so we walk the tightrope’s distance.
We must balance it all, try not to fall, for in life’s long haul; there is no path of least resistance.
Nicholas LaPalm Community Member/Spring Creek
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�Lauren Petrie, Community Member/Elko “Autumn Showers” Digital Photo
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�Brian Kump, GBC Student/Elko “Roll of Honor” Digital Photo
Andrea Medina-Visscher, GBC Student/Elko “Old Wagon Wheel” Digital Photo
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�Shania Cook, GBC Student/Elko “They Changed Today” Digital Photo
“I have been inspired this year to
try something different – and art is
what has spoken to me. I have been
finding art in every state, in every
home, and all around me.”
– Shania Cook
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�Heidi Stevens, GBC Student/Elko “Saddle” Digital Photo
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�Jayme Cornmesser, GBC Student/Deeth “Tuck” Digital Photo
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�Daniel Stevenson, GBC Student/Elko “Gone to Seed” Digital Photo
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�Gholley’s Breakfast
Gholley
the Gilly
keeper of my land.
Slumbers contently
‘neath a canopy
of evergreen tam.
While out on the
fence post,
perching,
Magpies spy.
Yodeling softly,
their eversome cry...
“Have a European for Breakfast”
my daughter once
claimed
... the Birds sang.
“Have a European for Breakfast”
politely,
patiently.
“Have a European for Breakfast” they ask again
as they wait.
And to Magpies’ ears’
soundless answers
to query,
They swoop,
lightly down...
Stiff legged, in unison,
like Bridesmaids marching down,
a diamond lit aisle,
Made of Heaven sent snow.
Leaving angel-winged marks
to the glittering show.
Determinedly striding to the altar,
they traverse to the
old cat’s bowl.
“Breakfast is Served”
While my old cat, Gholley the Gilly,
keeper of my wee spot of
land.
Indeed...
slumbers in La La Land...
‘neath a canopy of evergreen tam.
Only to dream...
of Having Europeans for Breakfast.
Tanya L. Stokes GBC Staff/Spring Creek
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�Sidne Teske, Community Member/Tuscarora “Winter at the Stone House” Soft Pastels
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�Katy Cooper, Community Member/Spring Creek “Whispy Winter” Digital Photo
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�Cindy Joyce, Community Member/Wells “A Buttery Glow in Winter’s Snow” Digital Photo
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�Into the White
I drove my cat to her death today, Devi yowling in her crate on the passenger
seat of my rig, my fingers touching through the crate holes, hoping my love
and gratitude would travel like lightning to her heart. She quieted as we rose
over the low hills between home and the high destination unknown to us.
I drove home empty crated today, yowling, tears striking my cheeks like
lightning. My son came to bid Devi goodbye, his words to her so intimate it
hurt to hear. And I, holding Devi still for final ministrations, lost myself in this
great whiteness where thought and words end. I still don’t know how Devi
and I merged in the white upon her death.
Devi came to me as a four-month-old kitten, pregnant already, bullied by a
tomcat, crying at the thick wooden door of our house. I still don’t know how
she talked through wood.
She delivered three kittens in my lap, looking into my eyes as labor began,
asking me to explain to her this pain, that suddenness of kittens. I still don’t
know how I comforted her.
Devi held me night after night for nine years after my husband died. She
kneaded my chest until I put my forearm full length under her and held
her neck and head in my hand. Her massage of purring, soft warmth of
underbelly fur, and Braille of delicate bones decoded this huge beauty within
her. I still don’t know how beauty caused me to hold on, hold on, hold on.
Devi had feline AIDS. Hard that last year was, diarrhea, skeletal thinness,
crazed yowling, fleeing from the unseen down the hallway, hiding shoe deep
in the closet, and at last an exhausted slide into sleep crimped by pain. I
fought and fought to heal her until she jumped on my bed one last time and
held me after almost a year’s absence. She told me it was time and mine to
do, the mechanics of release. I still don’t know how she threaded through my
thick denial.
Last week I drove to Sacramento to help a friend deal with a painful rejection.
I saw Devi walk across the top of my friend’s refrigerator. For real. With my
very eyes. I still don’t know how this works, just that the whiteness is now
larded with the luminous gold of her eyes.
Katie Glennon Community Member/Elko
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�Khatlyn Micheli, GBC Student/Carlin “The Night is White” Digital Photo
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�Megan Frandsen, GBC Student/Elko “Wild One” Watercolor
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�Secret
She sits across from me uncomfortably shifting her weight in the well-worn couch cushion.
Crimson nails strum nervously against the ceramic cup held close, not for warmth, but for courage.
The tang of morning coffee and stale nicotine wafts across the table as she leans in.
Our eyes lock, hers pleading with silent intensity.
Every indelicate detail of her recent transgression rolls wickedly through garnet-stained lips.
I feign indifference, preserving my empathetic facade.
Feeling the electric pulse of delight begin to swell.
She who is adored by all and wears her Chanel suit so well.
After bearing two perfect children, she has not let herself go.
Yet has gone farther than I could ever imagine.
Her shoulders sag and her eyes dull with resignation as she concludes her sordid tale.
I breathe it in slowly, chest compressed, crushed under the weight of the secret.
It begins to fester almost immediately after the telling of it.
Ami Rogers GBC Staff/Battle Mountain
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�Switched
(an excerpt from the short story “Harmony’s Melody”)
Sassi dreaded her spring break. She wished to visit Ireland, to see grandpa again.
Her father would never schedule the time off or allow mother and daughter a trip.
Sassi watched the clock with trepidation. Time was up. She moved sluggishly,
passing the bus. She spotted the Ford Grand Torino. A handsome man lounged
behind the steering wheel, smiling. She sighed, climbing into the car. Father
launched into a well-rehearsed sermon. Sassi tuned him out. It was about fitting in
with her American neighbors.
“I took this week off.” Father said.
“Okay,” she replied hesitantly.
“Has mother been teaching you Gaelic?”
Mother was, but Father hated their heritage and forbid it. “No.”
He squinted skeptically, but remained silent.
One evening Sassi came into the kitchen. Mother was chopping onions and crying,
a fresh bruise on her cheek. Sassi decided that her plan had to be put in motion
tonight. Dinner was tense. Silverware chimed against plates and the cicadas chirped
outside, punctuated by Father’s outbursts. He complained of the food, the used
furniture, his daughter.
“Now or never,” she thought, as Father’s words lashed about the room.
Quickly she grabbed each parent by the wrist. Her hands barely closed around flesh
when she released the power. Time slowed. Sassi drew in their emotions. Anger
flowed up her right arm from her father. Fear slid up her left arm to mingle with the
little girl’s own anxiety. Sassi forced anger into Mother and planted a double dose of
fear into Father. It was time he knew what his family felt.
It was over in seconds. Sassi felt a wave of exhaustion consume her, but forced
herself not to pass out. Polarity in the room had shifted. Mother was clenching a
knife, knuckles white and angry. Her head jerked up and her eyes fixed on Father, as
she released a guttural snarl. She launched herself at Father. His chair slid back with
a chilling screech, tripping him as he backed away.
Sassi tried to cry out, but her body wouldn’t respond. She watched Mother attack
Father. In relief Sassi noticed the projected fear slough from Father, being sucked
into the ground. She waited for the same from Mother, but the energy didn’t
dissipate. Sassi’s last image was Father trying to fend off a mad woman’s steak knife.
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�Sassi woke under the table, cold tile supporting her cheek. A crash of shattering
glass pulled her attention to the far side of the kitchen. Mother hurtling curses and
objects at the closed door to the living room. Sassi scuttled further under the table,
back pressed against the wall, knees drawn to her chest. A wailing police siren halted
Mother’s next toss.
“Fucking asshole! You called the police? Coward! Let them in, I’m sure they would
love to hear what you’ve done to us!”
Red and blue lights bounced through the kitchen’s sliding glass door. Sassi could hear
slamming car doors. Men’s voices came muffled through the window and dark figures
were outlined by the flashing lights. Mother mumbled, eyes narrowed as she rifled
through a drawer. Metal caught Sassi’s eye, reflecting her pale image on the broad flat
surface of a large blade. Mother hid the blade behind her back when a voice called
out.
“Mrs. Flint, this is Officer Gates. Open the door. No one needs to get hurt. Your
husband is concerned for your daughter. Where is the girl?”
“My daughter?” Mother shouted. She rounded on Sassi, “Little bird, would you open
the door?”
Her tone sent chills down Sassi’s spine. She unlocked the door and Gates pulled it
open, herding Sassi outside. Sassi noticed his hand gripped on his weapon.
“Mrs. Flint, I need to see your hands.” Gates said. “Empty, at your side”
“Don’t give her to HIM. Whatever he told you, it’s a lie!” Mother spat.
“Final warning. Hands empty and at your side!” Gates commanded.
Sassi began to shake again. Three officers were in battle formation behind her. Sassi
darted toward her mother intending to suck all emotion from the deranged woman.
At the same time, Mother struck out. The woman slashed the air centimeters from the
policeman’s face.
Sassi clamped a hand against her mother’s hand, drawing anger from her parent.
At that moment Gates tugged Sassi’s arm. “No!” she thought as power flowed. As
backup arrived Sassi was torn from her mother and dragged into a squad car. A shriek
tore the night air, followed by a gun blast.
“Mommy! Mooooommmmyyy!” Sassi yelled, pounding on the window.
Emily Hardy GBC Student/Spring Creek
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�Debbie Heaton-Lamp, Community Member/Elko “Sunflower Burst” Watercolor
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�Martha Watson, GBC Student/Elko “Family Walk” Acrylic
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�Wanderlust
The world holds me lightly in its arms
and on dark nights
when clouds loom low
and stars pin up a heavy sky
I become its courier
traveling in silent radiance
to the moon
and beyond
to the very edge of nothingness
eavesdropping on angels
listening to their wings
cutting through the air
as if thumbing through the pages
of my latest book of songs.
Thelma Richie Homer Community Member/Elko
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�Words...
torn from the mind
detailing life
spilling across the page
ordering chaotic thoughts
or creating havoc
Words...
brightened by hope
steeped in despair
jumbled together without reason
or perhaps that is their purpose
Would the meaning change if the ink were red?
Jana Tompkins Community Member/Elko
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�Genny Albitre, Community Member/Elko “Eye on Sunset” Digital Photo
“I caught the reflection of the sunset in the eye of my horse
and, at that moment, was mesmerized by the image.”
– Genny Albitre
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As I looked at the beautifully crafted keys included in this year’s Argentum,
my mind filled with images of pirate chests, the distinctive keys required
to open them, and the curious and unusual treasures hidden within. I
envisioned precious metal shaped by imagination and skill, one-of-a-kind
works of art, multi-colored ceramics, even inventive words provoking
thoughts of unknown worlds and emotions. I would definitely seek for those
things in my personal treasure hunt.
I encourage you to peruse Argentum and discover the unique treasures
hidden within our 2014 edition. Appreciate the efforts of authors and artists
who unleash individual creativity to provide us with work that can spark the
imagination and take us to new and novel places.
When you are finished exploring these pages, please pass along this
Argentum to someone else. In doing so, you help Great Basin College
recognize local authors and artists, and support our efforts to encourage
creativity in our students, faculty, staff and communities.
--- Lora Minter, editor
For information about submitting your work for upcoming Argentum magazines:
Website: http://gbcnv.edu/argentum
Email: argentum@gbcnv.edu
This publication is made possible by the generosity of:
GBC’s Office of Academic Affairs
GBC’s Arts and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Committee
Special thanks to the Argentum Steering Committee: Tanya Stokes, Karen Kimber,
Lynne Volpi, and Beth Clifton. Without the support of Patty Fox, Cynthia Delaney,
Kristen Frantzen Orr, Gail Rappa, Angie de Braga, and the Media Services office,
this issue would still be sitting on the desk. Their support of artists and authors at
GBC is inspiring.
Kudos to Marin Wendell and Erin Radermacher of Everything Elko for their support
of the arts and their help in producing Argentum.
Cover Art:
Cynthia Delaney, GBC Faculty/Elko “Not Forgotten” Digital Photo Collage
Back Cover Art:
Patricia Anderson, GBC Staff/Spring Creek “GBC Fountain in Fall” Digital Photo
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�Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s
Artist Title
Taela Terrillion
Toni Rose Milano
Gail Rappa
Duane Troike
Frank J. Henley
Kathi Griffis
Nicole Schubert
Cheryl Schmidtlein
Richard Hooton
Ann Haglund & Shelby Smith
Paul Bowen
Cindy Joyce
Mallary Paoli
Joyce Armour
Ceren Yalcin
Earl Edwards
Joe de Braga
Maureen Dempsey
Anthony DeBellis
Thomas Brown
Patricia Gray
Sarah Hadland
Talisa Brown
Andrea Medina
Arthor Asson
Frank Sawyer
Katie Glennon
Gretchen Greiner
Susan Church
Kristen Frantzen Orr
Gail Rappa
Simone Marie
Lois Ports
Michael Bail
Amber Shinpaugh
Amber Shinpaugh
Sarah Sweetwater
Kevin Lee Johnston
Heather Kennison
Franklin Graham Sr.
Patty Fox
Thelma Richie Homer
Lacey Gobber
Martha Watson
Page
Koi................................................................... 6
Florida Pelican.................................................. 7
Flash................................................................ 8
Stamped Image................................................ 9
T-Rex.............................................................. 10
But Mommy................................................... 12
Egyptian Narrative ......................................... 13
Tropical Birds - Eleven Different Parrots.......... 14
I Like Birds..................................................... 15
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Birch Tree with Cardinals................................ 16
Alone in the Light........................................... 17
Foxy Lady....................................................... 18
Highland Cow................................................ 19
Lady............................................................... 20
Queen Bee..................................................... 21
Zebra Cranes. ................................................ 21
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A Perfect Day................................................. 22
Canoeing. ...................................................... 23
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Wig Wag Signals at Night. .............................. 24
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Headed Home............................................... 25
Bison, Yellowstone.......................................... 26
Intensity......................................................... 27
Life is an Open Door...................................... 28
Cowgirl.......................................................... 29
I Want to Milk an Ostrich............................... 30
Phoenix.......................................................... 31
Trailer Trash.................................................... 32
Owl Pin.......................................................... 34
Key to my Heart............................................. 35
Key to the Bird Lady’s Heart........................... 35
Moonstone Key.............................................. 35
Fleur de Lis Bracelet....................................... 36
Leaf Bracelets................................................. 36
Mad Hatter.................................................... 37
Entirety. ......................................................... 38
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Washed Away. ............................................... 39
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Traveler.......................................................... 40
Tractor in Snow.............................................. 42
Consider the Tumbleweed.............................. 42
Deeth, Nevada............................................... 43
Reese River Sheep.......................................... 44
Wear and TEAR.............................................. 45
Contrast Image............................................... 46
Boats.............................................................. 47
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A heartfelt “thank you” goes to the following community members who gave
generously of their time to select this year’s Argentum entries. Your expertise and
efforts, graciously volunteered, are appreciated.
Sidnie Miller,
Artist and Educator
Sidnie Miller was born in Elko, Nevada,
and is a third generation Elkoan on both
sides. She graduated from the University
of California Santa Barbara with a degree
in painting and a teaching certificate. She
taught art in Elko schools for 30 years and
then taught for GBC. She loves all areas of
art, particularly jewelry creation.
Beth Carpel,
Writer and Photographer
Beth Carpel grew up in Washington, D.C.
and lived in various parts of the country
before settling in Spring Creek. Her
photography tends toward the natural word.
In the past few years she’s been interested in
birds and bones. Her “bonescape” photos are
changed digitally to a much greater degree
than her nature photos. She is the author of
the novel Assembling Georgia.
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�Keith Clark,
Photographer
Keith Clark is an internationally published
photographer. From Africa to Asia, Ireland
to Alaska, Keith’s work has been featured in
magazines, books, galleries and on national
television. He has photographed Emmy
award-winning actors. His Las Vegas studio
hosted authors, executives, brides, babies,
friends and family.
Clark now makes his home at the base of
the Ruby Mountains in Lamoille, Nevada,
where he owns a studio and enjoys capturing
images of the old West from horseback.
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�Taela Terrillion, GBC Student/Spring Creek “Koi” Digital Photo
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�Toni Rose Milano, GBC Student/Spring Creek “Florida Pelican” Digital Photo
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�Flash
Little clan of siblings as I first remember it, still fresh and mostly intact: two boys, two
girls, tallest Tommy to shortest me. We stand on the sturdy staircase in an array of flannel
pajamas, faces lit with rare, genuine awe by the Christmas card of a tree hovering over a
pond of shiny paper parcels all green, red, silver, gold.
Perhaps it’s not my memory at all and only a glimpse from a shuffle through old
smeared Polaroids: captured moments all mahogany and bruised blue in the dim morning,
lit by the tangle of colored tree lights, illuminated by the camera’s tinny flash. Or, more than
likely, a remembered snippet from dad’s fickle movie camera, brought out rarely then, each
of us having moved through the endearing stages of early childhood.
There is no photo, but my mother likes to tell of me at three, running down a path in
the public gardens on my chubby little legs crying out, “Here I come, swan boats!” I will
have to take her word for it. And, when she is gone, will her words slip into the sacred
realm of the dead, where insignificant comments and dismissed advice become profound,
where recollections transform to facts?
And my own wonder that my children, so awake in each moment, will likely not
remember much of what they have experienced up to now. It will be up to my husband
and I to be the keepers of their early memories. I can only hope that joy will be so familiar
it won’t stand out as a stark snapshot of an experience, but instead be as common as the
millions of unremarkable and miraculous breaths they will take.
Gail Rappa GBC Faculty/Tuscarora
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�Duane Troike, GBC Visual Foundations Online Student/Winnemucca
“Stamped Image” Ink on posterboard
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�Frank J. Henley, Community Member/Spring Creek “T-Rex” Digital Photo
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�“I enjoy photographing
nature doing unusual
things … Nevada is full of
interesting objects.”
Frank Henley
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�Kathi Griffis, Community Member/Spring Creek “But Mommy” Graphite
“Just a science kid trying to pass my fine arts credit!!
Some things turn out cool!”
Nicole Schubert
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�Nicole Schubert, GBC Visual Foundations Student/Spring Creek “Egyptian Narrative”
Black Sharpie
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�Cheryl Schmidtlein, Community Member/Elko “Tropical Birds Eleven Different Parrots” Stained Glass, Copper Foil
“Stained glass is more than church windows … the sky is
the limit. Working with glass does something to your soul.”
Cheryl Schmidtlein
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�I Like Birds
Especially the ones that learn how to cuss,
I once told a friend.
I like Mynahs and Macaws and Cockatoos,
And Roosters with their cock-a-doodle-doos.
I like Corvids, too,
The Magpies and Crows clean up my road kill
When I run over a snake on the gravel road
At the bottom of my hill.
I don’t like snakes.
They hiss and slither and rattle and
Leave their winding tracks in dirt and sand
And they coil and threaten with ready fangs.
The crows will get them - it’s all right,
When they come out to sun themselves
On a warm dirt road in the cold, bright light.
And crawl so slow they’re easy to catch.
The mocking crows follow and sass me from above.
“Caw! Caw! Caw! you ground-bound creature down below,
Where the little houses stand row on row,
And where children play, and
People come and go.”
Go keep us safe, I scold and shout, and leave me be!
Can’t you see I’m stuck here on the ground.
Go do your job and eat a snake!
I’d come with you, but not to eat.
If I had wings like you.
Richard Hooton Community Member/Elko
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�Ann Hagland & Shelby Smith, Community Members/
Elko “Birch Trees with Cardinals” Fabric Art
This collaborative work began with an October 2010 Quilt World pattern which was reduced. Hagland
developed her own cardinals and Smith used a long arm machine to free form quilt the background.
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�Paul Bowen, Community Member/Elko “Alone in the Light” Digital Photo
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�Cindy Joyce, Community Member/Wells “Foxy Lady” Digital Photo
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�Mallary Paoli, Community Member/Elko “Highland Cow” Digital Photo
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�Joyce Armour, Community Member/Elko “Lady” Rock, Clay, Resin, Paint, Brass
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�Ceren Yalcin,
GBC Student/Elko
“Queen Bee”
Acrylic on Clay/Sculpture
“Art, to me, is beauty
interpreted in the eyes of
the beholder.”
Earl Edwards
Earl Edwards,
Community Member/Spring Creek
“Zebra Cranes”
Zebrawood
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�Joe de Braga, Community Member/Elko “A Perfect Day” Digital Cell Phone Photo
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�Canoeing
You and I
are better
at canoeing
than we
once were.
Fifteen years:
J strokes
C strokes
Draw strokes
Paddle-like-hell strokes.
We’ve learned
canoeing is an art.
You’ve stopped giving
long-winded directions
from the stern,
Last week
you showed me
a new stroke:
The sweep you
called it.
My paddle had
to be tilted at
just the right angle;
you had to pull
your paddle at the
same time I did.
If not, we’d swim you said.
I thought about trying
it just to see if you were right.
I’ve quit steering
from the bow and holding
onto the gunwale.
Fifteen years ago
I might have.
We’ve studied:
the river
the rocks
the rapids
the waves
You and I
are better
at canoeing
than we
once were.
Together.
Maureen Dempsey Community Member/Spring Creek
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�Anthony DeBellis, GBC Student/Ely “Wig Wag Signals at Night” Digital Photo
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�Thomas Brown, Community Member/Spring Creek “Headed Home” Digital Photo
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�Patricia Gray, Community Member/Spring Creek “Bison, Yellowstone”
Acrylic Ink on Clayboard
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�Sarah Hadland, GBC Visual Foundations Student/Eureka “Intensity”
Colored pencil, Push-pencil, Black Sharpie
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�Talisa Brown, GBC Photography Student/Pahrump “Life is an Open Door” Digital Photo
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�Andrea Medina, GBC Ceramics Student/Elko “Cowgirl” Ceramics
“I am just beginning on my photography journey.
I am taking my first photography class at GBC
and am so excited to learn this art!”
Talisa Brown
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�I Want to Milk An Ostrich
I want to milk an ostrich,
A sublime ambition indeed.
For the ostrich is,
Without a doubt,
A most noble breed.
With cows there is the stool,
For goats one must kneel.
But one may,
In comfort stand,
For ostriches – ideal!
Oh, I suppose it’s true,
Standing will work for giraffes.
But hitting the bucket,
At such a range,
Will require considerable craft.
I rack my brain,
But fail to find a third.
So on the whole,
With comfort in mind,
I want to milk a bird.
Arthur Asson Community Member/Spring Creek
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�Phoenix
As I gazed into the flames
And watched them rise to touch the sky
I searched the blood-red glowing embers
For memories long since gone by
I saw my birth as an infinitesimal spark
Too small in fury to warrant a blaze
And then in seconds a boy I saw
With imagination a dreamer of days
In seconds still a man I saw
Lean and hungry in his youthful years
Then with the slightest breath of wind
A wise man drowning in aging tears
And as I gazed into the flames
And watched them rise ever higher
The charred remains of my body I saw
Burning on the funeral pyre.
Frank Sawyer GBC Faculty/Elko
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�Trailer Trash
I’ve had the hardest time figuring out I own my home and share it with none. Occasionally,
my children and grandchildren punctuate my solitude. My housekeeper comes most
frequently, sweeping up puppy-chewed pinecone mess, changing coral bed linens, watering
vivid green plants. Home is a 1974 rectangular trailer, one end for entertaining, cooking,
eating, the other for laundry, bathing, sleeping. I live in high desert plateau of rabbitbrush,
sage, pinion pine, prairie grasses, thin dirt, granite rocks.
I rarely use the living room, dining area or den. Business calls are taken in my office chair,
bed, bathroom, or over kitchen sink, me dripping juice from a peach so ripe the smell
swoons me. Most days and into evening I inhabit the office where my computer lives. Bills
are paid in the dark of night to soaring music. When first light leavens darkness, I go to
sleep in my bedroom where king bed and big screen television face off in perpetuity.
This trailer encloses 1,200 square feet, the living space facing the Ruby Mountains, a
miniature model of full scale mountain ranges in Colorado where I was born. Two large
windows face the Rubies behind which the sun and moon rise. So clear the air, a few steps
out my door seem enough to ride the moon, gliding across the night sky like wooden swan
boats on park pond.
In the den, a propane stove, forest green enamel with glass panels front and sides, real fake
logs. I love the flame, the ease of it and the beauty. I had a pellet stove that ate 50-pound
bags I heaved into its maw twice daily, soot blackening glass almost immediately. I must see
the fire or any stove turns into nothing more than folly.
My bedroom and bath make up the other end. A tiny window brings light into the
bathroom. My brother-in-law parked his beater truck on the dirt road above my bathroom
and stood on its bed to see if he could spy me. That’s how we placed that sliver of sight
through the wall just so for incoming light.
When we moved into this house, twelve years ago, my husband was dying of Alzheimer’s.
We moved in Thanksgiving. He died mid-December. I bought this trailer because it cost less
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peer through my windows. I bought this trailer because I felt safe within its silence.
Who is it that moved in with me secretly, who silences my desires and esthetics, preferences
and dreams? Who is she that lives within me invisible, killing plans to make beautiful my
bathroom, all the worst of plastic harvest gold shower bath combo, faux marble vanity,
flaking fake gold faucet, thin mirror with fluorescent light box above to illuminate my
spartan grooming -- brush hair, scrub teeth, swipe face, done.
Who is she to inform me that it is foolish to move my leather sleigh bed into the living
room to view the moon and sun rise? Who is it that believes that this house is for others?
She will not countenance kitchen cabinets painted flat black with warm cream walls and
soapstone countertops. I want to know who this is living so assuredly in my home, setting
the rules, scaring the crap out of me at 3 a.m.
My grandparents, parents, and husband were so blink of an eye. Only my life seems so
long. I’ve been wandering in the infinite space of empty, frozen in pain of loss. Creation of
self, as with the earth, requires that wild burning in the dark at the hand of the unbidden
one. Pulsing lava she bellows to expansion and diminishment. I am throat to both.
Genesis fire in this lifetime rises from fault lines laid down within me, unwelcome places,
barren places, weak places, burned places. I create out of failed seams and boiling
fissures oozing lava, the red raw and flawed, cracked, down low places, sulfurous hissing.
Everything good and loving within me comes from such a place.
Perhaps in another lifetime I will create my self from ocean shores, outer banks, cliff edges,
high mountain ridges, within drifts of snow or sand. Now, in this time and place, paint the
cabinets black as a coffin. Rip out carpet and put down yellow pine floors. Move bed to
behold rising sun, moon, constellations. I and the stiff one are uneasy keepers of the silence
within the empty.
Katie Glennon Community Member/Elko
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�Gretchen Greiner, GBC Jewelry 2 Student /Elko “Owl Pin” Bone, Brass, Copper, Silver
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�Susan Church, GBC Jewelry 2 Student/Keddy Ranch
“Key to my Heart” Copper, Silver
Kristen Frantzen Orr, GBC Faculty/Spring Creek
“Key to the Bird Lady’s Heart”
Jewelry Fabrication - Sterling Silver, Copper
Gail Rappa, GBC Faculty/Tuscarora
“Moonstone Key”
Sterling Silver, 14K Gold, Moonstone
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�Simone Marie, GBC Jewelry 2 Student/Spring Creek “Fleur de Lis Bracelet”
Metal, Brass, Copper, Silver
Lois Ports, GBC Jewelry 2 Student/Elko “Leaf Bracelets” Copper, Brass
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�Michael Bail, GBC Ceramics Student/Elko “Mad Hatter” Ceramics
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�Entirety
i want to relive the straight lines of your jaw,
and the subtle curves of your lips
the shallow stare of your eyes
the ever-present dent in your chin when you smile
your sharp cheekbones
the gentle structure of your nose
the slight arch in your eyebrows
you in your entirety. you’re so incredible to me.
i am in love with the straight lines of your temper,
and the subtle curves of your arms around me,
the shallow stare of your love pouring onto me,
the ever-present dent in your heart where i belong,
your sharp physique,
the gentle structure of your personality,
the slight arch in your back as you lean down to kiss me.
i am in love with you. you in your entirety.
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�Washed Away
I’ve been taking so many baths
just to drown away the scent of you from my skin;
to mask the potent odor of heartbreak
with the fragrance of independence.
But no amount of Lush products could wash away the memories
or clean my body of the imprints you made;
my fragile skin acting like memory foam
to your powerful grip.
So, instead I am left with gallons of water
flowery bubble bath
and a million curses,
followed by your name.
Amber Shinpaugh GBC Student/Las Vegas
“My creative process is not unusual for a writer. I stay up
until 3 a.m. and write until I can no longer think.”
Amber Shinpaugh
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�Traveler
Open your front door,
Walk out in the world.
Begin your journey
With a hungry heart.
Turn around now
And close the door on your house.
Step out of your comfort
And into the unknown.
Maybe what you really need
Is a traditional Turkish Bath
To steam and soak off the old
And scrub away the dead skin.
Empty your full mind
Of your preferred tastes,
Your favorite fragrances,
Of smoothly paved paths.
Forget your best tennis match and
Leave behind your favorite American team.
They fill your mouth too full of words
And your mind with your own stories.
Go out beyond your history
Into a landscape of strange roads.
Leave your past
Back in your homeland.
Listen. You are here now.
What stories will their history tell?
You are the visitor here in Turkey.
Your job is to be a good student.
This day is for new stories
Spoken in tongues sounding strange,
Accompanied by music
In other notes and rhythms.
Their stories are buried in ancient sites,
Written on stones in unknown forms,
Carved with shapes new to you
Connected by myths of different titles.
Stand still in the new land
Opening the pores of your senses
Like a child at play,
Cram life into your mouth.
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Forget the flavors of your cuisine
And the musical marches of your history
As you savor a yogurt soup
And feel your feet on cobblestone streets.
Be a child learning at play
Become a student with an open mind,
Notice all the differences
And celebrate them
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So this tastes sharp and lumpy.
Be patient. Taste again.
Soon its tartness will be welcomed
You’re on your Silk Road now.
With eagerness, trade what you know
Bartering good heartedly
For the unknown.
Let this adventure become your Silk Road
Trading your country’s riches for new ones.
Trade your baseballs for spices
�
Setting bowls of oregano and cumin at your table
Don’t be embarrassed by your ignorance.
When their currency confuses and you pay too much
Smile into their laughter
And be the fool lightheartedly.
Bring your synthetic, machine-made cloth
To exchange for the handspun, woven fabrics
Designed with ancient symbols.
Echoing magical meanings.
Next time, those multiple zeroes
Will more clearly translate
And you’ll recognize the million lira purchase
Is only $1.70 in our currency.
With your shoes and socks off
Embrace the sensuous silkiness
Of the weaver’s flying fingers
Massaging your soul from the soles up.
Returning home, open your front door,
Walk back in from the world.
Fingering those coins
As disks full of memories.
Sarah Sweetwater GBC Professor Emeritus/Elko
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�Kevin Lee Johnston, GBC Photography Student/Winnemucca “Tractor in Snow”
Digital Photo
Consider the Tumbleweed
Consider the tumbleweed;
Tumbleweeds are not lonely;
When the tumbleweeds of life roll in
Its shallow roots are so easily uplifted.
They amass in great numbers
Many are lost in the wind.
So it moves on, spreading its seed
And when they long last come to rest,
Others still, are found again
And welcoming change as a long lost friend.
They shelter their young to create new life.
So new ones can begin.
Heather Kennison Community Member/Spring Creek
42
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�Franklin Graham Sr., Community Member/Elko “Deeth, Nevada” Colored Pencil
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�Patty Fox, GBC Faculty/Spring Creek “Reese River Sheep” Watercolor
44
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�Wear and TEAR
You’d think I would have learned
that love and blind desire
can cause a lot of pain;
like the red plaid DeLiso Debs
I passed every day
in the window of the corner shoe store:
irresistible
something I had to have
couldn’t live without
laid away
paid for on time,
the last payment as much of a sacrifice
as the first;
the wound on my heel
breaking open with every wearing.
Thelma Richie Homer Community Member/Elko
“I came to writing poetry in my 70s…my advice to aspiring
poets is that it never too late … just start.”
Thelma Richie Homer
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�Lacey Gobber, GBC Visual Foundations Online Student/Carlin “Contrast Image” Black Sharpie
46
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�Martha Watson, Community Member/Elko “Boats” Acrylic
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Argentum Art and Literary Magazine
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Great Basin College's Art and literary magazine featuring student, faculty, and community works.
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Great Basin College's art and literary magazine devoted to highlighting the excellent artistic expression of its students, faculty, staff, and members of the communities in which GBC serves.
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Great Basin College / Arts and Cultural Enrichment
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Great Basin College
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07/01/2014
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English
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2014 issue of Great Basin College's art and literary magazine, Argentum. Devoted to highlighting the excellent artistic expression of its students, faculty, staff, and members of the communities in which GBC serves.
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Great Basin College
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Great Basin College
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Bard in the Yard II
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Collection of short Shakespeare pieces performed around a common theme.
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Items from Great Basin College and Silver Stage Players' production of Bard in the Yard II.
"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
Help the Duncan Littlecreek Gallery, Great Basin College, and Silver Stage Players celebrate the summer season with the staging of Bard in the Yard II – The Battle of the Sexes. This unique production features excerpts from a number of William Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies performed in an intimate outdoor setting. Conceived by director Frank L. Sawyer in 2011, the Bard in the Yard Project explores common themes throughout Shakespeare’s works. 2013’s version of BITY focuses on the battle of the sexes. Life, love, death, and happiness shall all hang in the balance as we explore the machinations of all things male and female and attempt to answer the age old question; who will win the battle of the sexes? Performances are September 11-13, 18, 20, 21 beginning at 7 PM in the back yard of the Duncan LittleCreek Gallery located at 518 Commercial Street in Elko Nevada. The show includes passages from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labours Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Tickets are only $5 and are available at the door.
Directing Bard in the Yard for the second time is Frank L. Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer’s directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Odd Couple (female version), Lysistrata, Talk Radio, Bringing it All Back Home, and The Zoo Story among others. About the opportunity Sawyer said, “It is an honor to partner with Duncan LittleCreek Gallery, the Silver Stage Players, and Great Basin College for this project!". Starring and providing technical expertise in the production are Heidi DuSoleil, Anthony Piper, Russ Smith, Christy Harper, Erika Patrick, Caleb Tapia, Derek Burwell, John Wright, Sandy Beeler, Michael Bail, Meghan Campbell, John Wells, Don Jones, Savanna Hall, and Ashley Chancellor.
Celebrating their 77th anniversary, the Silver Stage Players is dedicated to providing the finest theater, community service, and educational opportunities to its members and the residents of northeastern Nevada. Visit their web site at www.silverstage.org.
Duncan LittleCreek Gallery is one of the arts centers of Elko. Featuring artwork, jewelry, sculpture, and other art, DLC offers a comfortable, smoke-free atmosphere with an extensive list of wine, beer, and specialty drinks. DLC is a favorite destination for locals, area visitors, private parties, receptions, weddings, and other occasions. For more information about DLC, visit their web site at www.dlcgallery.com.
Great Basin College enriches people's lives by providing student-centered, post-secondary education to rural Nevada. GBC ensures educational, cultural, and related economic needs of the multicounty service area are met through programs of university transfer, applied science and technology, business and industry partnerships, developmental education, community service, and student support services in conjunction with certificates, associate, and select baccalaureate degrees. Whether you live in Battle Mountain, Elko, Ely, Pahrump, Winnemucca or in any of the communities across the school’s 63,000 square mile service area, GBC offers a first rate education, delivered in the classroom, via interactive video or online. For more information about Great Basin College visit their web site at www.gbcnv.edu.
For more information about Bard in the Yard II – Battle of the Sexes, please call the director at (775) 934-3721, e-mail at flsawyer@designlunacy.com or visit us on the web at www.silverstage.org, www.dlcgallery.com, www.bardoutside.org, and www.gbcnv.edu!
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Silver Stage Players, Great Basin College, and Duncan Littlecreek Gallery.
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
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Great Basin College
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09/21/2013
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Great Basin College
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©2014 FRANK L. SAWYER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
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English
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Collection of short Shakespeare pieces performed around a common theme.
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Frank L. Sawyer
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Bard in the Yard II: Heidi DuSoleil as Ophelia
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Collection of short Shakespeare pieces performed around a common theme.
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Heidi DuSoleil, as Ophelia, ruminates on Hamlet's odd behavior in the Hamlet excerpt of Bard in the Yard II DLC rehearsals.
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Frank L. Sawyer
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
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Great Basin College
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09/07/2013
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Great Basin College
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©2014 FRANK L. SAWYER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
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English
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Bard in the Yard II
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Collection of short Shakespeare pieces performed around a common theme.
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An account of the resource
Items from Great Basin College and Silver Stage Players' production of Bard in the Yard II.
"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
Help the Duncan Littlecreek Gallery, Great Basin College, and Silver Stage Players celebrate the summer season with the staging of Bard in the Yard II – The Battle of the Sexes. This unique production features excerpts from a number of William Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies performed in an intimate outdoor setting. Conceived by director Frank L. Sawyer in 2011, the Bard in the Yard Project explores common themes throughout Shakespeare’s works. 2013’s version of BITY focuses on the battle of the sexes. Life, love, death, and happiness shall all hang in the balance as we explore the machinations of all things male and female and attempt to answer the age old question; who will win the battle of the sexes? Performances are September 11-13, 18, 20, 21 beginning at 7 PM in the back yard of the Duncan LittleCreek Gallery located at 518 Commercial Street in Elko Nevada. The show includes passages from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labours Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Tickets are only $5 and are available at the door.
Directing Bard in the Yard for the second time is Frank L. Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer’s directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Odd Couple (female version), Lysistrata, Talk Radio, Bringing it All Back Home, and The Zoo Story among others. About the opportunity Sawyer said, “It is an honor to partner with Duncan LittleCreek Gallery, the Silver Stage Players, and Great Basin College for this project!". Starring and providing technical expertise in the production are Heidi DuSoleil, Anthony Piper, Russ Smith, Christy Harper, Erika Patrick, Caleb Tapia, Derek Burwell, John Wright, Sandy Beeler, Michael Bail, Meghan Campbell, John Wells, Don Jones, Savanna Hall, and Ashley Chancellor.
Celebrating their 77th anniversary, the Silver Stage Players is dedicated to providing the finest theater, community service, and educational opportunities to its members and the residents of northeastern Nevada. Visit their web site at www.silverstage.org.
Duncan LittleCreek Gallery is one of the arts centers of Elko. Featuring artwork, jewelry, sculpture, and other art, DLC offers a comfortable, smoke-free atmosphere with an extensive list of wine, beer, and specialty drinks. DLC is a favorite destination for locals, area visitors, private parties, receptions, weddings, and other occasions. For more information about DLC, visit their web site at www.dlcgallery.com.
Great Basin College enriches people's lives by providing student-centered, post-secondary education to rural Nevada. GBC ensures educational, cultural, and related economic needs of the multicounty service area are met through programs of university transfer, applied science and technology, business and industry partnerships, developmental education, community service, and student support services in conjunction with certificates, associate, and select baccalaureate degrees. Whether you live in Battle Mountain, Elko, Ely, Pahrump, Winnemucca or in any of the communities across the school’s 63,000 square mile service area, GBC offers a first rate education, delivered in the classroom, via interactive video or online. For more information about Great Basin College visit their web site at www.gbcnv.edu.
For more information about Bard in the Yard II – Battle of the Sexes, please call the director at (775) 934-3721, e-mail at flsawyer@designlunacy.com or visit us on the web at www.silverstage.org, www.dlcgallery.com, www.bardoutside.org, and www.gbcnv.edu!
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Silver Stage Players, Great Basin College, and Duncan Littlecreek Gallery.
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
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Great Basin College
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09/21/2013
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Great Basin College
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©2014 FRANK L. SAWYER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
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Bard in the Yard Project
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Frank L. Sawyer
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00:01:15
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Bard in the Yard II: Derek Burwell as Puck
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Collection of short Shakespeare pieces performed around a common theme.
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Derek Burwell helps the audience navigate through the various Shakespeare pieces in Bard in the Yard II DLC rehearsals.
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Frank L. Sawyer
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
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Great Basin College
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09/07/2013
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Great Basin College
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©2014 FRANK L. SAWYER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
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English
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Bard in the Yard II
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Collection of short Shakespeare pieces performed around a common theme.
Description
An account of the resource
Items from Great Basin College and Silver Stage Players' production of Bard in the Yard II.
"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
Help the Duncan Littlecreek Gallery, Great Basin College, and Silver Stage Players celebrate the summer season with the staging of Bard in the Yard II – The Battle of the Sexes. This unique production features excerpts from a number of William Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies performed in an intimate outdoor setting. Conceived by director Frank L. Sawyer in 2011, the Bard in the Yard Project explores common themes throughout Shakespeare’s works. 2013’s version of BITY focuses on the battle of the sexes. Life, love, death, and happiness shall all hang in the balance as we explore the machinations of all things male and female and attempt to answer the age old question; who will win the battle of the sexes? Performances are September 11-13, 18, 20, 21 beginning at 7 PM in the back yard of the Duncan LittleCreek Gallery located at 518 Commercial Street in Elko Nevada. The show includes passages from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labours Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Tickets are only $5 and are available at the door.
Directing Bard in the Yard for the second time is Frank L. Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer’s directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Odd Couple (female version), Lysistrata, Talk Radio, Bringing it All Back Home, and The Zoo Story among others. About the opportunity Sawyer said, “It is an honor to partner with Duncan LittleCreek Gallery, the Silver Stage Players, and Great Basin College for this project!". Starring and providing technical expertise in the production are Heidi DuSoleil, Anthony Piper, Russ Smith, Christy Harper, Erika Patrick, Caleb Tapia, Derek Burwell, John Wright, Sandy Beeler, Michael Bail, Meghan Campbell, John Wells, Don Jones, Savanna Hall, and Ashley Chancellor.
Celebrating their 77th anniversary, the Silver Stage Players is dedicated to providing the finest theater, community service, and educational opportunities to its members and the residents of northeastern Nevada. Visit their web site at www.silverstage.org.
Duncan LittleCreek Gallery is one of the arts centers of Elko. Featuring artwork, jewelry, sculpture, and other art, DLC offers a comfortable, smoke-free atmosphere with an extensive list of wine, beer, and specialty drinks. DLC is a favorite destination for locals, area visitors, private parties, receptions, weddings, and other occasions. For more information about DLC, visit their web site at www.dlcgallery.com.
Great Basin College enriches people's lives by providing student-centered, post-secondary education to rural Nevada. GBC ensures educational, cultural, and related economic needs of the multicounty service area are met through programs of university transfer, applied science and technology, business and industry partnerships, developmental education, community service, and student support services in conjunction with certificates, associate, and select baccalaureate degrees. Whether you live in Battle Mountain, Elko, Ely, Pahrump, Winnemucca or in any of the communities across the school’s 63,000 square mile service area, GBC offers a first rate education, delivered in the classroom, via interactive video or online. For more information about Great Basin College visit their web site at www.gbcnv.edu.
For more information about Bard in the Yard II – Battle of the Sexes, please call the director at (775) 934-3721, e-mail at flsawyer@designlunacy.com or visit us on the web at www.silverstage.org, www.dlcgallery.com, www.bardoutside.org, and www.gbcnv.edu!
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Silver Stage Players, Great Basin College, and Duncan Littlecreek Gallery.
Source
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
Publisher
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Great Basin College
Date
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09/21/2013
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Great Basin College
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©2014 FRANK L. SAWYER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
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English
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Collection of short Shakespeare pieces performed around a common theme.
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Art, theatre, Shakespeare, performance, live, educational
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Bard in the Yard II: Heidi DuSoleil as Titania in Bard in the Yard II
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Collection of short Shakespeare pieces performed around a common theme.
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Heidi DuSoleil as Titania in the Bard in the Yard II excerpt from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Frank L. Sawyer
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
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Great Basin College
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09/21/2013.
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Great Basin College
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©2014 FRANK L. SAWYER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Web site of the Bard in the Yard Project. http://www.bardoutside.org/
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English
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Bard in the Yard II
Subject
The topic of the resource
Collection of short Shakespeare pieces performed around a common theme.
Description
An account of the resource
Items from Great Basin College and Silver Stage Players' production of Bard in the Yard II.
"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
Help the Duncan Littlecreek Gallery, Great Basin College, and Silver Stage Players celebrate the summer season with the staging of Bard in the Yard II – The Battle of the Sexes. This unique production features excerpts from a number of William Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies performed in an intimate outdoor setting. Conceived by director Frank L. Sawyer in 2011, the Bard in the Yard Project explores common themes throughout Shakespeare’s works. 2013’s version of BITY focuses on the battle of the sexes. Life, love, death, and happiness shall all hang in the balance as we explore the machinations of all things male and female and attempt to answer the age old question; who will win the battle of the sexes? Performances are September 11-13, 18, 20, 21 beginning at 7 PM in the back yard of the Duncan LittleCreek Gallery located at 518 Commercial Street in Elko Nevada. The show includes passages from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labours Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Tickets are only $5 and are available at the door.
Directing Bard in the Yard for the second time is Frank L. Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer’s directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Odd Couple (female version), Lysistrata, Talk Radio, Bringing it All Back Home, and The Zoo Story among others. About the opportunity Sawyer said, “It is an honor to partner with Duncan LittleCreek Gallery, the Silver Stage Players, and Great Basin College for this project!". Starring and providing technical expertise in the production are Heidi DuSoleil, Anthony Piper, Russ Smith, Christy Harper, Erika Patrick, Caleb Tapia, Derek Burwell, John Wright, Sandy Beeler, Michael Bail, Meghan Campbell, John Wells, Don Jones, Savanna Hall, and Ashley Chancellor.
Celebrating their 77th anniversary, the Silver Stage Players is dedicated to providing the finest theater, community service, and educational opportunities to its members and the residents of northeastern Nevada. Visit their web site at www.silverstage.org.
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Elko County Place Names
HOWARD HICKSON'S HISTORIES
[Index]
What's in a Name?
Elko County Place Names
Following are selected places most of us know. If any reader wants
to know about a place not listed, please email me and I will check my
sources and get back to you by email.
Adobe Summit: (On the road from Elko to Mountain City and
Tuscarora) A small ranch and road station were maintained on the
summit for freight wagons and stagecoaches. Its name was derived
from the adobe mud that packed the wheels of the vehicles. Some
present day maps call it "Doby" which is incorrect.
Angel Lake: (East Humboldt Range southwest of Wells) A beautiful
recreational lake which can be reached by automobile. Warren M.
Angel came to Elko County is 1878. He had a ranch in Clover
Valley.
Carlin: Construction crews of the Central Pacific Railroad settled
Elko County's oldest community in 1868. It was named for Captain
William Passmore Carlin, a Civil War volunteer who was once
stationed there.
Carlin's principal street in 1911
Photo courtesy of the Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko
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Charleston: Named for Tom Charles. The area was originally called
Mardis after George Washington "Old Allegheny" Mardis. There was
placer mining at a site four miles north of 76 Creek and the place
became a lively camp with three schools, several stores, a hotel, ice
house, saloon and other buildings.
China Ranch: (In Elko) In the area of the city park and where the
Northeastern Nevada Museum are located, local Chinese used the
place as a garden for raising vegetables they sold in town. Their farm
was irrigated by a ditch they dug from the Humboldt River near Osino
to the gardens in Elko. They also supplied water to Elko from the
ditch for a time.
Clover Valley: An abundance of clover grew in the valley. It was
called the Valley of Fifty Springs by the ill-fated Donner Party when
they passed through.
Contact: (Northern Elko County) Also known as the Salmon and Kit
Carson mining districts, the area was discovered in 1870 and first
worked on a commission basis by Chinese miners. Contact is mining
term meaning the meeting of granite and porphyry.
Currie: A town on the Nevada Northern Railroad between Cobre
and McGill. Joseph H. Currie had a ranch on Nelson Creek in 1885.
Deeth: (Between Elko and Wells) Settled in 1868 and named after a
man called Deeth who ran a small store on the banks of the Humboldt
River some two miles below the present town.
Diamond A Desert: (Northern Elko County near the Idaho line) The
brand of the Dan Murphy cattle outfit running cattle from Gold Creek
to the desert was the "Diamond A."
Dinner Station: (Twenty miles north of Elko) On the freight road
from Elko to Tuscarora and Mountain City. It was first known as
Weilands Station, named for the man who built the place. It here that
stage passengers, teamsters, horses and mules rested and were fed.
The name Dinner Station is obvious.
Duck Valley: (At Owyhee) Indian reservation in northern Elko
County established by Congress in 1877. Named for the ducks found
in the area before the reservation was established.
Elko: (County seat of Elko County) Elko County was formed from
part of Lander County in March, 1869 and named for its principal
community. There are three versions of the naming of the town: (1)
The most believable is that Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific
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Railroad, who had a passion for naming stations after animals, simply
added an O to Elk. (2) A small white girl was stolen by Indians from a
party of emigrants. The Indians called her Elko which some say is an
Indian word for White Elk. The child died near the Hot Springs off
Bullion Road and the Indians referred to the area as Elko. (3) When
surveyors were laying out the town site a party of Indians watched the
proceedings with considerable interest and, when the stakes were
being driven, one of them asked what the surveyors were making.
One told them that there would soon be a town here like San
Francisco and New York. The Indian exclaimed, "Elko!," said to be,
in early accounts, an Indian word of disgust. The boss of the survey
party said that was as good a name as any and wrote the name on
board and nailed it to a post. Editor: Since these accounts were
published I have been told there is no such term as Elko in the
Shoshone language. So, we are back to the first account of naming the
town...simply an O added to Elk which is not nearly as romantic or
exciting as numbers two and three.
Fort Halleck: Originally called Camp Halleck the post was
established by Captain Samuel P. Smith in 1867. General H.W.
Halleck was the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army at the time. On the
western slope of the Rubies it existed until 1886. The fort was
established to protect emigrant groups and the railroad.
Fort Ruby: (Ruby Valley in northern White Pine County) Established
in 1862 by Colonel Edward P. Connor with 600 men who marched
all the way from Stockton, California. A reservation of six square
miles was laid out and given the name Camp Ruby. Its name came
from the nearby mountains where pioneers found "rubies" and "ruby
sand," actually garnets, in the gravel of the streams.
Grindstone Mountain: (West of Dixie Creek and the South Fork of
the Humboldt River) Called Moleen Peak on contemporary maps,
one side of the mountain resembles grindstones. Its elevation is 7,377
feet.
Harrison Pass: (Ruby Mountains) Thomas Harrison, a native of
England, came to Elko County in 1865 and established a ranch in
Ruby Valley.
Humboldt River and all the other Humboldt names: Originally called
the Barren River, then Paul's River in honor of one of Pete Skene
Ogden's men who sickened and died on its banks. For a while it was
called Ogden's River then was designated Mary's River, perhaps after
the Indian wife of Ogden. Explorer Charles Fremont, in 1845, ignored
the existing name and called it the Humboldt. Friedrich Henry
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Alexander, Baron von Humboldt, was a famous naturalist and
explorer in the 19th centry.
Jarbidge: The word Jarbidge comes from an Indian word, "Tsawhaw-bitts," a name for a human-eating giant Indian thought to roam the
canyon. Miners twisted the spelling to Jahabich and then to Jarbidge.
Often referred to as Jarbridge which is incorrect.
Jarbidge was a booming tent city in 1910
Photo courtesy of the Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko
Jiggs: Its name comes from the popular comic strip of the time,
"Maggie and Jiggs." The town was called Skelton from 1884-1922,
from Cynthia Skelton, the mother of Valley Paddock who raised
horses in the vicinity. The place was then named "Hylton" who was a
prominent figure in the town, finally, to Jiggs.
Kittridge Canyon: C.B. Kittridge settled in Elko in 1871. Water
from the canyon was used in Elko for many years.
Lamoille:(Town, Valley, Canyon, Lake, and Creek) Thomas A.
Waterman, one of the original settlers in Lamoille Valley, was a native
of Lamoille County, Vermont. Lamoille is another twisted name.
Originally it was "la Moutte," French for a gull. It might have been a
map engraver's mistake of not crossing the t's.
Lee: Named in honor of General Robert E. Lee by J.L. Martin who
came to South Fork Valley in 1869.
Maggie Creek: (Near Carlin) On early maps the stream was called
Robin's Creek or Martin's Fork. A Scotch family, on their overland
trek to California in 1849, camped near the stream and named it
Maggie after one their little girls.
Metropolis: (Twelve miles northwest of Wells) A land promotion
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scheme of the Pacific Reclamation Company. Using a name denoting
a large city and prosperity, the company started the place in 1911.
Drought, water rights litigation, high interest rates, jackrabbits and
Mormon crickets contributed to the demise of the town and
surrounding farms.
Midas: First called Rosebud, then Gold Circle, because mines
encircled the town. Its name was changed to Midas because Postal
officials felt there were too many towns beginning with "gold" and
would not establish a post office there unless the name was changed
to Midas, a mythical king. Everything he touched turned to gold.
Montello: An Indian word meaning "rest." The place was a small
station on the Central Pacific Railroad. The watering place called
Montello is actually eight or so miles from town.
Oasis: (Between Wells and Wendover) Named after the Oasis Ranch
of E.C. Hardy, a horse raiser in the Toana area in the late 1880s.
Owyhee: Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson's Bay Company first
called the river the Sandwich Island River when two Hawaiians in his
group were killed there by Indians. Captain James Cook visited
Hawaii in 1776 and name the largest island in the group "Owyhee."
American missionaries in the islands later reduced the native language
to a written form and changed the spelling to "Hawaii."
Pilot Peak: (Eastern Elko County) Name by John C. Fremont in
1845 because it served as a guide for emigrants in their western
migration.
Pleasant Valley: Named by the Seitz brothers, Edward and George,
as a descriptive name for the valley nestled at the foot of the Ruby
Mountains.
Spanish Ranch: (Independence Valley, Tuscarora area) This cattle
kingdom was put together by Bernardo and Pedro Altube, Spanish
Basques who came to Elko County from California in 1870. Pedro,
who stood six-feet, six inches in his stocking feet was known as Palo
Alto, or "tall pine," and it is said that the California town takes its name
from him. Pedro was elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame as
Nevada's candidate in 1960.
Spring Creek: From the springs on a ranch known as the McKnight
Ranch.
Starr Valley: (Between Halleck and Wells) Lieutenant Augustus
Washington Starr came with Captain S.P. Smith to established Fort
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Halleck in 1867. After leaving the army Starr bought land in the valley
and is credited with being the place's first settler. By 1870 he had left
the area.
Te-Moak Indian Reservation: (Lee) Formed in the late 1930's by
the government from established private cattle operations on the South
Fork near Lee. The Bureau of Indian Affairs purchased several
ranches and located Native American families of the Shoshone tribe of
Te-Moak Indians on them. Named for Chief Te-Moak of Ruby
Valley. The name means "rope." He was named that because he
braided rope. Te-Moak rose to power among his people through
personal influence, not hereditary lineage. He is remembered for the
treaty he negotiated with the government to allow emigrants to pass
through this region unmolested by the Indians.
Thomas Canyon: (Branch of Lamoille Canyon, Ruby Mountains)
Raymond Thomas, an Elko County High School teacher, took a trip
into Lamoille Canyon on a beautiful day with ten other persons on
October 1, 1916. In his effort to help other members of the party
caught in a surprise snowstorm, the high altitude and severe storm
conditions resulted in the death of Thomas.
Tobar: (Southeast of Wells) A town on the Western Pacific tracks. A
story is told that a saloon keeper in 1909, painted a sign reading "To
Bar" and pointed it in the direction of his establishment. Railroad
officials looking for a name for their new town, saw the sign and
promptly named the place Tobar.
Tuscarora: Two stories; (1) Steve and John Beard named the place
after the Indians living in their home state of North Carolina and (2)
When the mining district was formed one of the miners had served on
the U.S. Gunboat Tuscarora. The name of the boat also came from
the southeastern seaboard Indians.
Union gunboat "Tuscarora,"
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named for an Indian tribe in North Carolina
Photo courtesy of the Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko
Twin Bridges: (Lower South Fork, Humboldt River) Two bridges
are in the area, one spans Smith Creek, the other the South Fork.
Wells: Originally a rest stop for wagon trains, the community was
settled in 1869 with the name Humboldt Wells after the river and
springs that marked the beginning of the Humboldt Trail. Elko County
Commissioners, on May 6, 1873, shortened the name to Wells. The
town was incorporated in 1927.
Main street of Wells c.1911
Photo courtesy of the Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko
Wendover: An eating place run by John Cooley served the men of
the sheep trails in the area and was so named because the men and
flocks wended their way over this route to other grazing ranges.
Wild Horse Reservoir: A dam was built in 1938 to store waters on
the Owyhee River, which was replaced with a new structure in 1971.
Wild horses were found in the area at one time.
Wilkins: (Between Wells and Contact) Sometimes was called
Thousand Springs Trading Post. Russell Wilkins was once the owner
of nearby Winecup Ranch.
Edited by Howard Hickson
September 14, 1998
I give my sincere thanks to my longtime friend, Edna Patterson, who
is, without a doubt, the premier historian of northeast Nevada. In
1964 she compiled a small book of local place names published by
the Elko Independent. In 1977 the Northeastern Nevada Historical
Society published parts of the original book in its Quarterly.
�1998 by Howard Hickson. If any portion or all of this article is used or quoted proper
credit must be given to the authors.
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">F</span>ollowing are selected places most of us know. If any reader wants to know about a place not listed, please email me and I will check my sources and get back to you by email. </p>
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<p><strong>Adobe Summit</strong>: (On the road from Elko to Mountain City and Tuscarora) A small ranch and road station were maintained on the summit for freight wagons and stagecoaches. Its name was derived from the adobe mud that packed the wheels of the vehicles. Some present day maps call it "Doby" which is incorrect. </p>
<p><strong>Angel Lake</strong>: (East Humboldt Range southwest of Wells) A beautiful recreational lake which can be reached by automobile. Warren M. Angel came to Elko County is 1878. He had a ranch in Clover Valley. </p>
<p><strong>Carlin</strong>: Construction crews of the Central Pacific Railroad settled Elko County's oldest community in 1868. It was named for Captain William Passmore Carlin, a Civil War volunteer who was once stationed there. </p>
<center> </center><center><img src="http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/carlin.jpg" alt="" width="169" height="250" /></center><center><span> <em>Carlin's principal street in 1911 </em></span></center><center><em><span>Photo courtesy of the Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko</span></em></center>
<p><strong>Charleston</strong>: Named for Tom Charles. The area was originally called Mardis after George Washington "Old Allegheny" Mardis. There was placer mining at a site four miles north of 76 Creek and the place became a lively camp with three schools, several stores, a hotel, ice house, saloon and other buildings. </p>
<p><strong>China Ranch</strong>: (In Elko) In the area of the city park and where the Northeastern Nevada Museum are located, local Chinese used the place as a garden for raising vegetables they sold in town. Their farm was irrigated by a ditch they dug from the Humboldt River near Osino to the gardens in Elko. They also supplied water to Elko from the ditch for a time. </p>
<p><strong>Clover Valley</strong>: An abundance of clover grew in the valley. It was called the Valley of Fifty Springs by the ill-fated Donner Party when they passed through. </p>
<p><strong>Contact</strong>: (Northern Elko County) Also known as the Salmon and Kit Carson mining districts, the area was discovered in 1870 and first worked on a commission basis by Chinese miners. Contact is mining term meaning the meeting of granite and porphyry. </p>
<p><strong>Currie</strong>: A town on the Nevada Northern Railroad between Cobre and McGill. Joseph H. Currie had a ranch on Nelson Creek in 1885. </p>
<p><strong>Deeth</strong>: (Between Elko and Wells) Settled in 1868 and named after a man called Deeth who ran a small store on the banks of the Humboldt River some two miles below the present town. </p>
<p><strong>Diamond A Desert</strong>: (Northern Elko County near the Idaho line) The brand of the Dan Murphy cattle outfit running cattle from Gold Creek to the desert was the "Diamond A." </p>
<p><strong>Dinner Station</strong>: (Twenty miles north of Elko) On the freight road from Elko to Tuscarora and Mountain City. It was first known as Weilands Station, named for the man who built the place. It here that stage passengers, teamsters, horses and mules rested and were fed. The name Dinner Station is obvious. </p>
<p><strong>Duck Valley</strong>: (At Owyhee) Indian reservation in northern Elko County established by Congress in 1877. Named for the ducks found in the area before the reservation was established. </p>
<p><strong>Elko</strong>: (County seat of Elko County) Elko County was formed from part of Lander County in March, 1869 and named for its principal community. There are three versions of the naming of the town: (1) The most believable is that Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific Railroad, who had a passion for naming stations after animals, simply added an O to Elk. (2) A small white girl was stolen by Indians from a party of emigrants. The Indians called her Elko which some say is an Indian word for White Elk. The child died near the Hot Springs off Bullion Road and the Indians referred to the area as Elko. (3) When surveyors were laying out the town site a party of Indians watched the proceedings with considerable interest and, when the stakes were being driven, one of them asked what the surveyors were making. One told them that there would soon be a town here like San Francisco and New York. The Indian exclaimed, "Elko!," said to be, in early accounts, an Indian word of disgust. The boss of the survey party said that was as good a name as any and wrote the name on board and nailed it to a post. <strong>Editor: </strong>Since these accounts were published I have been told there is no such term as Elko in the Shoshone language. So, we are back to the first account of naming the town...simply an O added to Elk which is not nearly as romantic or exciting as numbers two and three. </p>
<p><strong>Fort Halleck</strong>: Originally called Camp Halleck the post was established by Captain Samuel P. Smith in 1867. General H.W. Halleck was the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army at the time. On the western slope of the Rubies it existed until 1886. The fort was established to protect emigrant groups and the railroad. </p>
<p><strong>Fort Ruby</strong>: (Ruby Valley in northern White Pine County) Established in 1862 by Colonel Edward P. Connor with 600 men who marched all the way from Stockton, California. A reservation of six square miles was laid out and given the name Camp Ruby. Its name came from the nearby mountains where pioneers found "rubies" and "ruby sand," actually garnets, in the gravel of the streams. </p>
<p><strong>Grindstone Mountain</strong>: (West of Dixie Creek and the South Fork of the Humboldt River) Called Moleen Peak on contemporary maps, one side of the mountain resembles grindstones. Its elevation is 7,377 feet. </p>
<p><strong>Harrison Pass</strong>: (Ruby Mountains) Thomas Harrison, a native of England, came to Elko County in 1865 and established a ranch in Ruby Valley. </p>
<p><strong>Humboldt River</strong> and all the other Humboldt names: Originally called the Barren River, then Paul's River in honor of one of Pete Skene Ogden's men who sickened and died on its banks. For a while it was called Ogden's River then was designated Mary's River, perhaps after the Indian wife of Ogden. Explorer Charles Fremont, in 1845, ignored the existing name and called it the Humboldt. Friedrich Henry Alexander, Baron von Humboldt, was a famous naturalist and explorer in the 19<sup>th</sup> centry. </p>
<p><strong>Jarbidge</strong>: The word Jarbidge comes from an Indian word, "Tsaw-haw-bitts," a name for a human-eating giant Indian thought to roam the canyon. Miners twisted the spelling to Jahabich and then to Jarbidge. Often referred to as Jarbridge which is incorrect. <br /> </p>
<center><img src="http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/jarbidge.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="233" /></center><center><em><span>Jarbidge was a booming tent city in 1910 </span></em></center><center><em><span>Photo courtesy of the Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko</span></em></center>
<p><strong>Jiggs</strong>: Its name comes from the popular comic strip of the time, "Maggie and Jiggs." The town was called Skelton from 1884-1922, from Cynthia Skelton, the mother of Valley Paddock who raised horses in the vicinity. The place was then named "Hylton" who was a prominent figure in the town, finally, to Jiggs. </p>
<p><strong>Kittridge Canyon</strong>: C.B. Kittridge settled in Elko in 1871. Water from the canyon was used in Elko for many years. </p>
<p><strong>Lamoille</strong>:(Town, Valley, Canyon, Lake, and Creek) Thomas A. Waterman, one of the original settlers in Lamoille Valley, was a native of Lamoille County, Vermont. Lamoille is another twisted name. Originally it was "la Moutte," French for a gull. It might have been a map engraver's mistake of not crossing the t's. </p>
<p><strong>Lee</strong>: Named in honor of General Robert E. Lee by J.L. Martin who came to South Fork Valley in 1869. </p>
<p><strong>Maggie Creek</strong>: (Near Carlin) On early maps the stream was called Robin's Creek or Martin's Fork. A Scotch family, on their overland trek to California in 1849, camped near the stream and named it Maggie after one their little girls. </p>
<p><strong>Metropolis</strong>: (Twelve miles northwest of Wells) A land promotion scheme of the Pacific Reclamation Company. Using a name denoting a large city and prosperity, the company started the place in 1911. Drought, water rights litigation, high interest rates, jackrabbits and Mormon crickets contributed to the demise of the town and surrounding farms. </p>
<p><strong>Midas</strong>: First called Rosebud, then Gold Circle, because mines encircled the town. Its name was changed to Midas because Postal officials felt there were too many towns beginning with "gold" and would not establish a post office there unless the name was changed to Midas, a mythical king. Everything he touched turned to gold. </p>
<p><strong>Montello</strong>: An Indian word meaning "rest." The place was a small station on the Central Pacific Railroad. The watering place called Montello is actually eight or so miles from town. </p>
<p><strong>Oasis</strong>: (Between Wells and Wendover) Named after the Oasis Ranch of E.C. Hardy, a horse raiser in the Toana area in the late 1880s. </p>
<p><strong>Owyhee</strong>: Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson's Bay Company first called the river the Sandwich Island River when two Hawaiians in his group were killed there by Indians. Captain James Cook visited Hawaii in 1776 and name the largest island in the group "Owyhee." American missionaries in the islands later reduced the native language to a written form and changed the spelling to "Hawaii." </p>
<p><strong>Pilot Peak</strong>: (Eastern Elko County) Name by John C. Fremont in 1845 because it served as a guide for emigrants in their western migration. </p>
<p><strong>Pleasant Valley</strong>: Named by the Seitz brothers, Edward and George, as a descriptive name for the valley nestled at the foot of the Ruby Mountains. </p>
<p><strong>Spanish Ranch</strong>: (Independence Valley, Tuscarora area) This cattle kingdom was put together by Bernardo and Pedro Altube, Spanish Basques who came to Elko County from California in 1870. Pedro, who stood six-feet, six inches in his stocking feet was known as Palo Alto, or "tall pine," and it is said that the California town takes its name from him. Pedro was elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame as Nevada's candidate in 1960. </p>
<p><strong>Spring Creek</strong>: From the springs on a ranch known as the McKnight Ranch. </p>
<p><strong>Starr Valley</strong>: (Between Halleck and Wells) Lieutenant Augustus Washington Starr came with Captain S.P. Smith to established Fort Halleck in 1867. After leaving the army Starr bought land in the valley and is credited with being the place's first settler. By 1870 he had left the area. </p>
<p><strong>Te-Moak Indian Reservation</strong>: (Lee) Formed in the late 1930's by the government from established private cattle operations on the South Fork near Lee. The Bureau of Indian Affairs purchased several ranches and located Native American families of the Shoshone tribe of Te-Moak Indians on them. Named for Chief Te-Moak of Ruby Valley. The name means "rope." He was named that because he braided rope. Te-Moak rose to power among his people through personal influence, not hereditary lineage. He is remembered for the treaty he negotiated with the government to allow emigrants to pass through this region unmolested by the Indians. </p>
<p><strong>Thomas Canyon</strong>: (Branch of Lamoille Canyon, Ruby Mountains) Raymond Thomas, an Elko County High School teacher, took a trip into Lamoille Canyon on a beautiful day with ten other persons on October 1, 1916. In his effort to help other members of the party caught in a surprise snowstorm, the high altitude and severe storm conditions resulted in the death of Thomas. </p>
<p><strong>Tobar</strong>: (Southeast of Wells) A town on the Western Pacific tracks. A story is told that a saloon keeper in 1909, painted a sign reading "To Bar" and pointed it in the direction of his establishment. Railroad officials looking for a name for their new town, saw the sign and promptly named the place Tobar. </p>
<p><strong>Tuscarora</strong>: Two stories; (1) Steve and John Beard named the place after the Indians living in their home state of North Carolina and (2) When the mining district was formed one of the miners had served on the U.S. Gunboat Tuscarora. The name of the boat also came from the southeastern seaboard Indians. <br /> </p>
<center> <img src="http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/ship.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="207" /></center><center><em><span>Union gunboat "Tuscarora," </span></em></center><center><em><span>named for an Indian tribe in North Carolina </span></em></center><center><em><span>Photo courtesy of the Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko</span></em></center>
<p><strong>Twin Bridges</strong>: (Lower South Fork, Humboldt River) Two bridges are in the area, one spans Smith Creek, the other the South Fork. </p>
<p><strong>Wells</strong>: Originally a rest stop for wagon trains, the community was settled in 1869 with the name Humboldt Wells after the river and springs that marked the beginning of the Humboldt Trail. Elko County Commissioners, on May 6, 1873, shortened the name to Wells. The town was incorporated in 1927. <br /> </p>
<center><img src="http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/wells.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="145" /></center><center><em><span>Main street of Wells c.1911 </span></em></center><center><em><span>Photo courtesy of the Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko</span></em></center><center><em><span> </span></em></center>
<p><strong>Wendover</strong>: An eating place run by John Cooley served the men of the sheep trails in the area and was so named because the men and flocks wended their way over this route to other grazing ranges. </p>
<p><strong>Wild Horse Reservoir</strong>: A dam was built in 1938 to store waters on the Owyhee River, which was replaced with a new structure in 1971. Wild horses were found in the area at one time. </p>
<p><strong>Wilkins</strong>: (Between Wells and Contact) Sometimes was called Thousand Springs Trading Post. Russell Wilkins was once the owner of nearby Winecup Ranch. <br /> </p>
<center><img src="http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/dingbat.jpg" alt="" width="46" height="13" /></center><center> </center>
<div align="right"><em>Edited by Howard Hickson<span style="color: #000000;"> </span></em></div>
<div align="right"><em><span style="color: #000000;">September 14, 1998 </span></em></div>
<p> <br />I give my sincere thanks to my longtime friend, Edna Patterson, who is, without a doubt, the premier historian of northeast Nevada. In 1964 she compiled a small book of local place names published by the <em>Elko Independent</em>. In 1977 the Northeastern Nevada Historical Society published parts of the original book in its <em>Quarterly.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica;">© 1998 by Howard Hickson. If any portion or all of this article is used or quoted proper credit must be given to the authors.</span></p>
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