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Stories:
"Miner's House"
"Miner's House"
"Miner's House," from The Landscape in Black and White: Oliver Schuchard Photographs, 1967–2005, published in October by the University of Missouri Press. Schuchard, a professor emeritus in MU's School of Fine Arts, shot the image in 1968. It was among the first of some 5,000 exposures he made over the course of more than 30 years of work. At the time Schuchard photographed it, the Boulder County, Colo., cabin was one of the last remaining structures in Caribou, a now-abandoned town that once housed 5,000 residents. The hard-luck settlement was plagued by outbreaks of diphtheria, typhoid and fire, Schuchard says. During one nightmarish conflagration, a group of women, children and elderly residents suffocated in a mine shaft where they had sought safety. Locals claim to hear the victims' ghostly cries each year on the anniversary of the tragedy.
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