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was added to the name of the mine to distinguish it from the mining camp. By the winter of 1904, Bullfrog had about a thousand people living in tents, dugouts and congested traffic made a demand for rail connections The
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was chosen either because Eddie Cross was fond of singing 'O, the bulldog on the bank and the bullfrog in the pool...' or because the ore sample of rich gold was found in green-stained rock and was frog-shaped.
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and its Red Barn Art Center. The Bullfrog jail, the barn, the museum's information center and its outdoor sculptures are located along a spur road leading from
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Bullfrog Mine was discovered by Frank "Shorty" Harris and Eddie Cross on August 9, 1904. The name
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To the west, roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) from Bullfrog, the
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Bullfrog County, Nevada
Ghost town
Ruins of the Bullfrog Jail
Bullfrog, Nevada is located in Nevada
36°53′25″N 116°50′01″W / 36.89028°N 116.83361°W / 36.89028; -116.83361
Nye
Time zone
UTC-8
Pacific (PST)
DST
UTC-7
ghost town
Nye County
Nevada
Amargosa Desert
Beatty
Bullfrog Hills
Rhyolite
Goldfield
Tonopah
Funeral
Grapevine
Amargosa Range
Death Valley
Goldwell Open Air Museum
State Route 374

Bullfrog-Goldfield Railroad

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