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sed-victa-catoni · 6 months

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My fiance asked me a while ago: "Hey, Arcade, why is Fortification Hill called that?"

I went to Google, naively thinking Google would have an answer for me. It didn't. I told my fiance I couldn't find it, Z complained about that, life went on.

A few weeks later, I'm trying to procrastinate on a GIS project. I think "Hey, maybe if I call Lake Mead National Recreation Area, they'll know something! I think Fortification Hill is in the recreation area." So I call Lake Mead.

"Hello, this is Lake Mead National Recreation Area."

"Why is Fortification Hill called Fortification Hill?"

"What?"

"How did Fortification Hill get its name?"

"I don't know what that is."

"It's by Lake Mead."

"Oh. [Presumably checks what it is] I dunno, prolly because it looks like a fort? I'll go check."

I get put on hold, and then the call hangs up. Great, Lake Mead hung up on me. I think that maybe someone in Mohave County would know, as that is where the hill is located.

I call the Mohave County Historical Preservation Society. They don't understand me at first because I talk too fast, and when they do understand me, they don't know what I'm talking about. They put me through to their research department. The researcher was a wonderful woman who had no idea what I was talking about, and she found it very funny that Lake Mead had just hung up on me.She did get my name, number, and my email address, and she promised to look into it. She told me to "try calling Boulder".

In context, that probably means "go call someone else in Boulder City", so I look up their historical society. I call the number Google gives me. It is the number for the part of the Boulder City government that does building inspections. The building inspectors probably wouldn't know, but I didn't ask them.

Next I try calling the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum. They have a research library with books on the Lower Colorado River, which I think includes Lake Mead? They don't pick up, so I leave them a voicemail they will almost assuredly never hear.

I mention all this on a Discord server I'm in, and someone from Kingman, Arizona says they'll go look into it for me. I don't think they'll be able to get me anything but I appreciate the sentiment. I'm not sure where to go from here. I've called four people and not gotten any closer to a straight answer on how this hill got named. If I ever get a restraining order taken out against me by the entire Las Vegas metropolitan area, this will be why. If anyone who sees this has a lead, let me know? Now that the information has eluded my grasp so long, I want it.

#fallout new vegas #desertposting #new vegas #long posts

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fluffbolds · 1 year

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#art #digitalart #desert #environment #landscape #city #dragon

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assbaka · 5 years

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There's a lot of things I don't miss about living in Arizona, but one of the things I do miss is looking up and feeling a keen ache in my chest at the perfection of the stars, the desolate melancholy of the bare rock hills, the absolute magnificence of the thunderheads rising above the storm clouds like a cresting wave about to break

The desert will bewitch you and you can't escape its spell

#desertposting #homesick for somewhere i never felt at home

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tibialtybalt · 2 years

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Anyway. The desert rules sjdvhd

#tia posts #desertposting #i didnt know that i had that desert passion within me #wait i havent even posted any about SAND #'its coarse rough irritating and it gets everywhere' yeah BUT its also very hot on top and very cool if you dig one (1) inch into it #how neat is that. check and mate #have you ever been a kid and rolled down a sand dune? or ran down one and felt the sand give under your feet? 10/10 #ive been so busy loving rocks i forgot their roots. thank you sand

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sed-victa-catoni · 5 months

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My car doesn't have four-wheel drive. It really doesn't need to have four-wheel drive. What it needs to do is drive me around my large metropolitan area that does not experience ice or snow and has well-maintained roads. Four-wheel drive would be a waste here. It still makes me a bit sad to know that the roads I feel my compass point to are inaccessible to me. My car would break down, get stuck in drifting sand. I'd be stranded out there. I'm not ready yet.

#hearthome #desertposting

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sed-victa-catoni · 6 months

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Today, I'm not normal about Nevadan road signs.

#hearthome #desertposting

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sed-victa-catoni · 5 months

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I don't believe so.

#desertposting

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sed-victa-catoni · 5 months

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I'm nervous about what will happen when I return to Las Vegas, eventually. Things had changed so much by my time that I don't think it'll be recognizable. We had The Strip, of course, but it was nowhere near the size. There was no suburban sprawl reaching tendrils out into the desert. There weren't as many people. There couldn't be. I think I'll have horrible culture shock.

#arcade's thoughts on new vegas #fallout fictionkin #fictionkind #desertposting

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sed-victa-catoni · 7 months

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This is from the Tonopah Bonanza's first issue, published on June 15th, 1901. I think the population was about 650 at the time. The archives I can find for the Tonopah Bonanza end in December of 1909. By 1920, Tonopah would lose over half its population. There's a special sort of melancholy I feel reading this paper. I don't have a word for it.

That's a link to the archive, if anyone wants to read it.

#desertposting #hearthome

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