Prospectors fanning out from the rich strikes at Bullfrog and Rhyolite found gold in the Funeral Mountains in 1904. As was typically in the heady mining days of the early 20^th century, a townsite was quickly built with high hopes of a railroad connection. Lee, named after two brothers who first struck gold, was platted over a large area on this alluvial fan to support a population of 600 miners. Most of the buildings in this view are wood-frame structures, although tent buildings are apparent at lower left and right. The vegetation across the foreground is mainly Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) and Ambrosia dumosa (white bursage), although many more species are present in the wash. (photographer unknown, courtesy of the Nevada Historical Society, no number).