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But the film also suggests that Midas Mulligan quits the world at about the same time that Henry Rearden is trying to introduce his Metal to the world. This would indicate that, in the film version, the foundation and development of Atlantis took much shorter than the eight years that the novel gave it.
But the film also suggests that Midas Mulligan quits the world at about the same time that Henry Rearden is trying to introduce his Metal to the world. This would indicate that, in the film version, the foundation and development of Atlantis took much shorter than the eight years that the novel gave it.
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== Probable location ==
[Ayn Rand]] herself wrote to a friend<ref name=faq>"[http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/books/rand/atlas/faq.html#Q4.4 Atlas Shrugged FAQ]," ''Objectivism Research Center.'' Retrieved 7 February 2012.</ref> that the real location of Galt's Gulch was the town of Ouray, [[Colorado]].<ref name=ouray>[http://www.ouraycolorado.com/ Ouray, Colorado] Welcome Center. Retrieved 7 February 2012</ref> At present, and in the time that Rand wrote her novel, Ouray is and was a thriving town, though its chief industry was tourism. Presumably the town had lost most of its people, and Midas Mulligan would have acquired it quietly, piece by piece, until he was ready to retire to it.
Ouray has four roads heading into and out of it: US Highway 550 (north-to-south, through-and-through) and County Roads 17 (Oak Street, north), 361 (southwest) and 16 (southeast). For Midas Mulligan to cut them all off, the town would definitely be a "ghost town" before he moved in. He would likely allow only the southwest or southeast road, and camouflage that.
== Literary parallels ==
== Literary parallels ==
No one is currently proposing to establish anything quite like Galt's Gulch today. But certain elements of the [[militia]] movement have proposed to imitate the spontaneous secessions from society that take place immediately after [[John Galt]] makes his three-hour speech.
No one is currently proposing to establish anything quite like Galt's Gulch today. But certain elements of the [[militia]] movement have proposed to imitate the spontaneous secessions from society that take place immediately after [[John Galt]] makes his three-hour speech.
== References ==
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