2018-08-03 07:00:00
The American flag still flies proudly among Goldfield’s hovels from another era, its abandoned mines and its old cars. Jeremy Nix
REPORT – Very prosperous at the beginning of the 20th century, the town lost in a vast desert today hopes to revive thanks to its ghosts.
Open the door of the Santa Fe Saloon, the oldest operating bar in Nevada, and all eyes immediately converge on you, the stranger passing through this remote town in the so-called “silver” state. “How does it feel to be stared at like this?” asks with a laugh a blonde woman of a certain age seated at the counter above a slot machine built into the wood. “The feeling of being in a western, the scene where all heads turn towards the hero who has just entered the saloon!” After all, wasn’t the sheriff of Goldfield the legendary Virgil Earp (played by Kurt Russell in the cinema) of the famous Settling scores at OK Corral ?
The geographical isolation of Goldfield is accentuated by the immensity of the desert that must be crossed to reach it (Las Vegas is 300 kilometers to the south, Reno to 410 to the north), a desolate and monotonous landscape of mountain strata, trees of Joshua and stones. For several dozen kilometers, the Highway…
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