The 297,000 - acre Gold Butte National Monument is
home to rock art and cultural sites — and hundreds of illegally grazing cattle that
belong to jailed Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, whose own 160 - acre ranch is
nearby.
Two centuries ago, the sleepy village — now dotted with vacation
homes belonging to wealthy residents of
nearby Stockholm — was a restless mining settlement, shipping out high - grade feldspar for the royal porcelain factories of Europe and quartz to line the blast furnaces springing up across England.