Historic 1977 view of Silt, Colorado before the oil shale boom of the 1980s.

Miner's cabin at the Senator Beck Mine high in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.

Parachute, Colorado before the oil shale boom of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Parachute, Colorado before the 1980s oil shale boom.

City Hall built with Energy Impact dollars during the 1980s oil shale boom, Parachute, Colorado.

Original Western store front on a log building in historic South Pass City, Wyoming.

Mill buildings on a snowy day, Sacco, Maine south of Portland, maine.

Ohio one-room schoolhouse in late autumn. See the book America's Country School.

Historic one-room school near Leadville, Colorado.

A New West gate west of Wolf Creek Pass in Archuleta County, Colorado near Pagosa Springs.

A vernacular, homemade entrance gate, Shook's Run, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

An abandoned eastern Colorado homestead with a door nailed over a window.

Log cabin on a homestead west of Craig, Colorado.

Log barn on the Dodo Ranch, West Divide Creek, Garfield County, Colorado.

Historic barn on Silt Mesa, Silt, Colorado.

Historic barn with a cellar dug into the hillside, Silt Mesa, Silt, Colorado.

Historic mine dump on BLM land near Atlantic City, Wyoming.

Famous mill near Marble, Colorado at the base of Schofield Pass on the route to Crested Butte.

Mine headframe and mine buildings Mogollon, New Mexico.

Eureka, Nevada Theatre on U.S. Highway 50, the loneliest highway in America.

The Lace House, Blackhawk, Colorado now threatened by mega gambling casinos.

Vintage 1977 photo of whorehouse cribs in Telluride, Colorado.

The Sacco Mills, Sacco, Maine in snow.

Another New West entrance gate for second homeowners, east of Pagosa Springs, Colorado.