All right, my guest today is the owner of Cerro Gordo, an original Boomtown Silver Mine established in 1865.

He currently lives on a mountain above Death Valley with no running water, seven cats, six goats, and at least

one ghost. Brent Underwood, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. I'm really excited to be here.

Yeah, thanks for coming on. So tell me a little bit about Sarah Gordo. What is Sarah Gordo and how did

you come to be the owner and come to be

living there? Yeah, that's, that's a, I ask myself that a lot, but Sarah Gordo is a mining town from

the 1800s. And I think just to set the scene a little bit for everybody, it's located about three

hours northeast of Los Angeles. It's about three hours west of Las Vegas. And we're up in the

mountains. Sometimes I think people think ghost towns, I think desert. And we are in the desert, but we're in

the high desert. So I'm sitting at about 8,500 feet in elevation right now. And out my front window,

I can see Mount Whitney and this year in Nevada. So I see all these snow cat peaks. And if I turn

around the other way and I look at my back window, I see Death Valley National Park. And so I were

kind of on a crest. It's a really interesting, uh, high, low contrast up here. Um, but the town is

established in 1865. And primarily they were mining Galena, which is a silver and lead ore. And so the town

started about 1865. It became a boom town within I'd say five or six years. It was the place

to be kind of in California if you're a minor. This was just after the gold rush. Miners are

looking for different things to do. It sprung up to be about at its peak 4,000 residents, probably in the 1880s. There's

4,000 people living here, which is crazy to think about because at that point in time,

the closest port city to get all the supplies for Cerro Gordo was Los Angeles, which is where

you are right now. And at that point in time, this town probably had about 4,000 residents

and Los Angeles only had about 6,500 residents. So they're

almost like equal trading partners more so than like one little mining town and one, you know,

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