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Wallpaper Collage - William 'Burro' Schmidt Cabin - Last Chance Canyon, California - 2011

For thirty-three years, William “Burro” Schmidt toiled in Last Chance Canyon, single-handedly cutting a half-mile mining tunnel through solid granite. Alone at night in his one-room shack, he created a floor-to-ceiling collage of matchboxes, magazine photos, and commercial product labels. His life story is the subject of the first High & Dry dispatch:

PBS SoCal Artbound – William Burro Schmidt and His Tunnel to Nowhere – Jun 2014

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