Red Tree
by Maria Coulson
Title
Red Tree
Artist
Maria Coulson
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
Photo of a water fountain and fall trees, taken in front of The Bowers Mansion, located between Reno and Carson City, Nevada. The mansion was built in 1863 by Lemuel "Sandy" Bowers and his wife, Eilley Orrum Bowers. It is a prime example of the homes built in Nevada by the new millionaires of the Comstock Lode mining boom. The land originally was purchased in 1856 by Eilley and her second husband Alex Cowan, who returned to Utah a year later with other Mormon settlers. Eilley secured a divorce and moved to Gold Hill where she ran a boarding house and took in washing. Some miners, unable to pay for lodging and laundry with cash, gave Eilley Orrum pieces of their mining claims in payment.Thus she acquired the mining claim which, together with that belonging to her third husband Sandy, became the source of their fortune. The mansion was the fulfillment of Eilley's dreams of prestige and respectability.
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October 9th, 2014
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