H wrote:As I indicated by my previous response, much was, and is, imported. Neither was this all transported by rail, the railways built in earnest towards the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries. What seems overlooked here is the extensive use of adobe in the hotter, more barren landscapes.Fozzer wrote:In the many Hollywood Cowboy Films, years ago, filmed in the valley, showed a distinct lack of local trees anywhere, and yet whole towns were being built in the 19th Century, using trees: Bishop, Lone Pine, and Independence!
Films and Photographs of early settlers farms, show their property built entirely of wood, house, barns, etc, and yet there is hardly a tree to be seen anywhere in the dusty landscape!
In early Photographs of Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona, there always seems to be more wooden buildings there, than there are trees to support their building!
These States were very dry, dusty, tree-less landscapes.
Was the timber imported by the new Rail system, from forested areas, North Cal, Oregon, etc?
Paul... I like trees!......!
A related matter are the stagecoaches as seen in many westerns. The more official name of these was the Concord Coach; all were made near Concord, NH. We often assume according to what we're seeing in a show, so the belief that these coaches were a product of the old west has been falsely staged...8)
...ADOBE!
Now that's fascinating, @H..!
I've always associated that word with various songs, mainly Mexican, but after trawling past all the Adobe Flash Player, etc, references in Wikipedia; this finally popped up..>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe
The mud brick alternative to wooden structures!
Probably the reason why so many of the Adobe structures appear in Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico; desert areas, often bereft of trees, and built by Mexicans who mostly populate those areas!
Maybe the new European, etc, settlers were mainly used to building wooden structures in areas where trees were very scarce, and creating a tree-less landscape!
Many of the buildings in the South Western USA today show the familiar Mexican influence!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Adobe+b ... 54&bih=523
Paul....more exploration...!....
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