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(Date Posted:03/27/2008 4:41 PM)

I've been up there a couple of times, its a great site....then i came acroos this a while ago, by cecile:

http://www.explorehistoricalif.com/marden_graves_of_aurora.html


Great research!!!!

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RE:Aurora
(Date Posted:03/27/2008 5:11 PM)

Peggy Lee, one of my readers, and a resident of Sunland/Tujunga wrote that!  and published a book too..Photobucket" alt="">

I even got an honorable mention in the book for inspiring her.   
Here's my story of the gunfighter of Aurora:
  http://www.explorehistoricalif.com/william_carder.html

(Message edited by ccv on 03/27/2008 5:19 PM)

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RE:Aurora
(Date Posted:03/27/2008 6:04 PM)

Someone told me that in the 70s the buildings of  Aurora was still pretty much there, but the state of Nevada refused to help preserve the area.

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RE:Aurora
(Date Posted:03/27/2008 6:28 PM)

I'm not sure on dates off the top off my hat.   I do know that the bricks from the buildings were all used elsewhere.  In fact there are tract homes that have some of the used  Aurora bricks, so that 70's date could very well be.  

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RE:Aurora
(Date Posted:04/08/2008 6:59 PM)

Reply to ccv
I'm not sure on dates off the top off my hat.   I do know that the bricks from the buildings were all used elsewhere.  In fact there are tract homes that have some of the used  Aurora bricks, so that 70's date could very well be.  

Nell Murbarger, in GHOSTS OF THE GLORY TRAIL, gives her account and photos of Aurora in the 1930s, then going again to the site in the late 1940s after the brick cannibalism and her shock and depression of it all.

I don't recall the dates also, but believe it to be during or immediately after  the WW2 years.  The brick cannibalism fed the SoCal building frenzy after the war.

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RE:Aurora
(Date Posted:04/08/2008 7:11 PM)

Nell Murbarger wrote many articles for Desert Magazine in the 1940s-1960s.  Basically her books GHOSTS OF THE GLORY TRAIL and SOVEREIGNS OF THE SAGE are compilations of her Desert Magazine work.

I've got two copies of GHOSTS OF THE GLORY TRAIL, a paperback copy I bought years ago and an autographed copy I found in a Portland, Oregon bookstore for only $5.  I've read the book several times, a very good read of eastern California, Nevada and western Utah ghost towns and life in fading towns.

Below, signed book.



Below, inscription by Nel Murbarger.



Below, Murbarger's signature.


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RE:Aurora
(Date Posted:04/10/2008 1:22 AM)

Nice, David!  I've got a used copy of one of her books somewhere around here.

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