When I visited the Nelson Ghost Town in Eldorado Canyon along the Colorado River in the remote desert outside of Las Vegas, I didn’t have any bikini clad models in tow like the photographers in the video below.
Nelson Ghost Town offers mine tours of the old gold and silver mine that created a boom town back in the mid-1800s when these hills crawled with lawless miners, civil war deserters, claim jumpers, murder and mayhem.
Things were so bad that no law man dared enter this den of desperadoes.
Once the rumor of gold spread, steamboats began to make their way up the Colorado River to Nelson’s Landing, just down the road from the
Techatticup Mine, from Yuma, Arizona.
Several mines, including the Gettysburg, Duncan, Solar, Rand, Wall Street, Swabe
Gunfights over mining rights and women become commonplace
At one point, nearly every day ended with at least one person dead from gun fire. Disputes over mines, sympathies with the North or South, old beefs and feuds and even raids from the local Native America tribes finally came to the point of a military post being established in Eldorado Canyon in 1867 to protect the steamboat traffic and hold back the Indians.
Today’s Nelson Ghost Town, a popular photo shoot location
“Modern” Nelson Ghost Town and the Techatticup Mine is a collection of old buildings, relics from the mining era and a collection of vintage vehicles plus tours of the mine shafts.
Not surprising this spot has been marketed and is popular among photographers and videographers. It has been used in many music videos as well as major motion pictures as well as