Name three physical/cultural characteristics of Battle Mountain

-depressed area

-sun- bleached cars, dirty buildings, and cracked sidewalks.

“Battle Mountain had started out as a mining post, settled a hundred years earlier by people hoping to strike it rich, but if anyone ever had struck rich in Battle Mountain, they must have moved somewhere else to spend their fortune. Nothing about the town was grand except the big empty sky and, off in the distance, the stony purple Tuscarora Mountains running down to the table- flat desert.” (Walls 51).