The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle

By what name do the people of Battle Mountain refer to the town?

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SOME PEOPLE LIKED to make fun of Battle Mountain. A big newspaper out east once held a contest to find the ugliest, most forlorn, most godforsaken town in the whole country, and it declared Battle Mountain the winner. The people who lived there didn't hold it in much regard, either. They'd point to the big yellow­and­red sign way up on a pole at the Shell station—the one with the burned­out S—and say with a sort of perverse pride. "Yep, that's where we live: hell!"

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The Glass Castle