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In Austin, Nev., a rickety mining town whose gold ore was exhausted years ago, junk-shop proprietor Leo Wolfers is sweeping up a pile of window glass shattered by a mysterious sonic boom. Wolfers is used to the screaming fighter jets that take off from nearby Fallon Naval Air Station...
Manipulation by distant Mr. Bigs is an obsession here. Almost 90% of Nevada's land is owned and managed by the Federal Government--a distant imperial power to many locals. Ranching and mining are major industries, and both are feeling persecuted lately by certain cosmopolitan outsiders. In Eureka the taverns...
This double sense of remoteness and self-importance--of living simultaneously on the fringe and at the center of things--pervades the local mind-set. One explanation might be all the gold--gold, the traditional hedge against inflation, the currency of fear. As anyone who has seen The Treasure of...
Back in Austin, surrounded by rusty mining tools and curling 1950s girlie calendars, Wolfers sweeps up the last few splinters of glass. "This is their playground." He looks up at the sky. "They come in here from out East, all full of beans, and do their loop-the-loops and...
All mines close eventually, of course, but until recently the Potomac Complex in West Virginia's Grant County seemed protected by its solid marriage to Virginia Power's Mount Storm generating station. It was built on a tortured, windswept plateau in the mid-1960s only because abundant coal was nearby...