Past Event
Friday, February 5, 2016, 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Images of a Last Frontier
3900 Vermont Street, San Diego, 92103
Cost: Free
In the 1890s, historian Frederick Jackson Turner lamented that the frontier was gone and with it the Old West — what he overlooked were some 50,000 square miles of a frontier line outlining the Mojave Desert. As gold and silver was discovered, towns popped up overnight. Just as quickly, ghost towns replaced booming towns as the mines were played out.
All of this is captured in rare photographs of the day, assembled by documentary filmmaker Nicholas Clapp for his book Gold and Silver in the Mojave: Images of a Last Frontier. Info: 760-533-2725.