Salt Lake City? Are there other fortresses I'm missing or are they camouflaged so I can't see them?
Ever been to Wales? Mantua? New Harmony or even Lund? Check out Eskdale, UT on google.
Maybe not a fortress, but in a predomanatly roadless area, with natural gravity fed water sources and farmland. And an attitude - not so much now, but it was stronger in the recent past.
You might wish to read the book “Folks of the Fringe” by Scott Card, a noted SF witer - a collention of shorts, it is an interesting read, to say the least.
A review from Amazon says, in part
“Only a few nuclear weapons fell. But in the chaos of famine and plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret. The climate has changed, and the lake has filled up. There, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.
I was stationed at Nellis for years and spent a lot of time in rural NV and on the border with UT. Those folks are country all right.
If you had to make a break from the big city because of a Depression, for example, I don’t know about you, but that is the part of the US that would not have food riots....
The Wastach Front is just another urban area, so we are in areement there.
For the fortress part, you have to check uot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Mountain_(Utah)
very much like the NORAD complex.
I live in Mesa, AZ. Definitely not a fortress. We have a ton of illegals coming in.
Provo is the most unfriendly city I’ve ever visited. I don’t know if it was a fortress though.
There is an OLD joke about a “post holocaust survival kit”. It includes the addresses of all the local Mormons and a gun. ;)
My old band rehearsed in a members garage. He was a mormon. There was TONS of foil wrapped food very well organized on his shelves.