Come - Desert Magazine of the Southwest
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uildings and a few aged houses and<br />
outbuildings remain. These straddle<br />
Trout Creek and look up at Ash and<br />
Crater Buttes.<br />
A combination general store and post<br />
<strong>of</strong>fice, built with <strong>the</strong> usual false front <strong>of</strong><br />
those times, is still <strong>the</strong> center <strong>of</strong> things,<br />
and so is <strong>the</strong> postmistress Sandy. Sandy<br />
also runs <strong>the</strong> rock shop behind <strong>the</strong> store,<br />
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To Idaho<br />
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# To Ontario<br />
17<br />
by BILLIEDURFEE<br />
Left: A typical<br />
false-fronted<br />
building in<br />
Richmond.<br />
Below: The<br />
Richmond church.<br />
and is hospitably full <strong>of</strong> old time lore and<br />
present-day statistics.<br />
As in most pioneer crossroads,<br />
business used to be good enough to support<br />
several saloons. Today only one is<br />
standing, and it has been converted into<br />
a church used by Methodist, Episcopal<br />
and Baptist congregations.<br />
The largest and most frontier-looking<br />
building is <strong>the</strong> grange hall. At one time<br />
<strong>the</strong> biggest dances in <strong>the</strong> region were<br />
held here. Dancers came from as far<br />
away as Fossil, Antelope and Horse<br />
Heaven. A hand water pump and appro-
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