Bullfrog
The Bullfrog District was organized following discoveries by Frank "Shorty" Harris and Ernest L. Cross on August 4, 1904 at what would become known as Amargosa. By November 1904, Carl Stoddard established a new townsite about three miles southeast of Amargosa called Bonanza. In March 1905, the Amargosa Townsite Company purchased the Bonanza townsite, and the entire camp of Amargosa (which only consisted of tents) was moved there and the consolidated camp was renamed "Bullfrog". Soon, 300 lived in Bullfrog, and some permanent buildings were erected, including a hotel, jail, and water system. The Bullfrog Miner went into publication on March 31, 1905, lasting nearly a year before it ended March 23, 1906. Even former Nevada Senator William Stewart, then eighty years old, moved to town in May and erected a $20,000 complex with a 10-room adobe home and law office.
Unfortunately, as nearby Rhyolite continued to quickly grow in 1905 and 1906, businesses began to relocate and Bullfrog started to die. The hotel burned on June 25, 1906, and by 1907 few remained. The town managed to barely hang on for a few more years, but with Rhyolite in a decline of its own, Bullfrog finally croaked in 1909.
