Thunder Mountain Monument

Beside Interstate 80 in northern Nevada, a structure of cement and found objects rises from the flats, surrounded by about 200 hand-made concrete figures. Thunder Mountain Monument stands near Imlay, between Winnemucca and Lovelock. There is no mountain of that name; as Hyperallergic noted in 2019, the complex is itself the "mountain."

Frank Van Zant, a Second World War veteran who identified as Creek and took the name Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder, began building here in the late 1960s, 1968 according to the SPACES Archives, 1969 according to Hyperallergic. The centre began as a one-room travel trailer that he covered with rocks and concrete. SPACES says most materials came from a nearby junkyard and that the only thing he bought was concrete. Chicken-wire forms covered in concrete became sculptures, among them tributes to Sarah Winnemucca, Quetzalcoatl and Chief Standing Bear. SPACES describes exterior reliefs telling of betrayals of Native Americans by the US government.