Uploaded February 2014 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago
Travel 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas and one can find the El Dorado Canyon, once home to a thriving gold mining operation in the 19th and early 20th centuries that also witnessed murders, claim jumping and other renegade behavior. The old Techatticup Mine, which operated for 80 years before it was shuttered at the onset of World War II, since reopened to tourists as did a resurrected mining camp.
Travel 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas and one can find the El Dorado Canyon, once home to a thriving gold mining operation in the 19th and early 20th centuries that also witnessed murders, claim jumping and other renegade behavior. The old Techatticup Mine, which operated for 80 years before it was shuttered at the onset of World War II, since reopened to tourists as did a resurrected mining camp.
