Death Valley 2022/23

[Beardilocks]

Going through some old papers that found their way to me, I noticed something listed as Mother Wood’s Saloon in Greenwater Valley.  I had already been going over the satellite view of Greenwater looking geoglyphs (which is absolutely useless for the kind of geoglyphs the Shoshone and their ancestors left behind here by the way, saved you 20hrs of screen time) and had noted several anomalies.  One of those anomalies lined up with the approx location listed by a Levi Nobel in 1941 as Mother Wood’s.

This was especially interesting as A) the most famous settlement in Greenwater, the GW boom/ghost town left almost nothing behind, and B) it was in the wrong end of the valley entirely to be connected to that.  And if I could add a C) it would be that the location was odd anyway.  Not at a crossroad, but ~2mi and change away?   You put the saloon at the crossroads.  You need a drink before you sell your soul to the devil after all right?   



Note that it has a circular driveway of sorts around the main structure/foundation.  Was it the first drive thru saloon?   




Old churchkey 


About a solid acre of glass and cans… erm, I mean ‘artifacts’. 




Walking around the area, some spots looked like they might have been used as camps nearby, which would make sense I guess.  A few glasses of rotgut and you’re sleeping close by.  

Obviously I’m not discovering anything new here.  Just sort of a random find.  I’m sure some of you have been here.  But it’s so unusual to have a name.  Google gave me nothing to add to the story at all.  

Has anyone else come across Mother Wood’s Saloon anywhere?   I would love to find another source that uses the same name.  If it left all this behind surely someone dropped the name a second time?  Let me know!