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Cook Bank, Rhyolite, NV

These are the steps that once lead people into the Cook Bank in Rhyolite, Nevada.
Rhyolite is a ghost town in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 k...
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These are the steps that once lead people into the Cook Bank in Rhyolite, Nevada.
Rhyolite is a ghost town in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas in Nevada and along the east flank of Death Valley National Park.
The town's name is from the igneous rock.
Founded in 1905, it was purchased in 1906 by none other than Charles Schwab who sank large amounts of money into the town which, by 1907-08, boasted an estimated population of something between 3500 and 5000. By 1910 after the '06 earthquake, the '07 financial panic and a near ruinous devaluation of the major mine operating near town the population dropped to approximately 1000. By 1920 it was near 0.

, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills.
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