![]() ![]() It is home to two gas stations, a whorehouse, scattered farms, a smattering of trailers amid cottonwood and ash trees, and a saloon with a horse tied up out front. "Amargosa" comes from the Spanish for "bitter." The name, which comes from the intermittent river that flows here, fits the valley. I finagled an invitation to visit his place the next morning. Hooton also owns the property closest to Yucca Mountain in a valley that has around 1,500 residents, all prospective neighbors of a future repository for high-level nuclear waste. I introduced myself to the wearer, Jim Hooton, who informed me he was not a dairy farmer, but did odd jobs around this small roadside resort on the border between Nevada and California. "Ponderosa Dairies, Amargosa Valley, Nevada" underlined the effort. It was signed "Elsie," presumably the cow with the American flag painted on her side, who also decorated the shirt. "We will be happy, make milk, and prosper," the message on his back continued. ![]() "Yea, though we live in the shadows of Death Valley and Yucca Mountain, we will not fear," it said on the T-shirt of the man in front of me as I checked into the Longstreet Inn and Casino in Amargosa Valley late on a hot dusty afternoon. Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue's feature story.ĪMARGOSA VALLEY, Nev. ![]()
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