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Shady Myrick's gravesite was memorialized on May 30, 1952 by his many desert friends. Deemed "God Father of the American Rockhound".
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Shady Myrick died at the age of 75 while on a trip back to his old mining haunts in Salt Lake City, Utah and Leadville, Colorado. Shady was buried in the Rand District Cemetary July 4th 1925.
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The "Boys" pictured with Grandma & Grandpa Lightburn at the family home in Long Beach, Califonria, Thanks Giving Day, 1957
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Shady at the head frame of the Black Gold Mine shaft with (l-r) Parker, George, and Anna Pearl Lighburn, and Claude Yakes.
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Shady Myrick, pictured left, with Claude Yakes, his trusty side-kick, at the Black Gold Mine, Camp Myrick.
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Shady Myrick at Lead Springs, about 15 miles north-east of Johannesburg. Pictured with Shady are George, Anna Pearl and Parker Lightburn, holding rifle. The Winchester WRF .22 caliber rifle remains in the collection.
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