Building anything was exorbitantly expensive, yet prospective miners needed a home. Among the most common castoffs were empty saloon bottles that masons stacked with plaster into walls that ...

To build the bar, the couple called in a pro, neighbor Tony Bayevich, who had inset bottles in the walls of Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace and nearby Rimrock Ranch Cabins. Goff’s rundown ...

And, if you can spare some time, she’d like your help using those bottles to build a wall. The construction project, which will commence at this summer’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival (June 30 ...