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In Elko: Barrick and Newmont Combine

Nevada Traveler - January 15, 2022

Adding to Your Nevada Bookshelf

150-Year-Old Locomotive Reno Returns to Virginia City

150-Year-Old Locomotive Reno Returns to Virginia City

Nevada Traveler - December 18, 2021 0

Most Famous Engine in Movie History, Star in 100+ Films The most historic existing icon of...

Yank Van Duzen, Hero

Nevada Traveler - August 3, 2021 0

by Harry Gorham To return To the subject of ventilation — those men in Gould and...

Much patched Highway in Gold Hill Nevada

Comstock Mining Update — March 18, 2020

Nevada Traveler - March 18, 2020 0

On March 3 2020, with its stock at 57 cents and falling following the 5-1...

Las Vegas Correspondence – February 2020

Pauline Cimoch - February 11, 2020 0

I know it's February, but I’m not finished with car talk yet! My December, 2019 correspondence...

Elko Correspondence – December 2019

Douglas Clarke - November 30, 2019 0

Christmas is almost here, and Elko has plenty of great Christmas events to see. Here...

Las Vegas Correspondence – December 2019

Diamond Jack Bulavsky - November 30, 2019 0

Diamond Jack continues to be amazed at what goes on in this city. The Las...

Laughlin Correspondence – December 2019

Jackie Brett - November 30, 2019 0

Anaheim Ballet continues "Nutcracker" tradition at Riverside The family tradition of “The Nutcracker Ballet” will be...

Lincoln County Correspondence – December 2019

Dave Maxwell - November 30, 2019 0

The Historic Mountain View Hotel in Pioche Once as elegant a hotel as graced anyplace in...

North Lake Tahoe Correspondence – December 2019

Kayla Anderson - November 30, 2019 0

Tahoe got its first taste of snowfall late last month, augmenting the manmade snow that...

Comstock Mining Update — March 18, 2020

Nevada Traveler - March 18, 2020 0

On March 3 2020, with its stock at 57 cents and falling following the 5-1 reverse split on November 25 2019, CMI issued a...

Will the Real Corrado De Gasperis Please Stand Up?

Nevada Traveler - October 27, 2019 0

In September 2017 the Carson City TEDx committee chose Corrado De Gasperis as a speaker for an event at the Brewery Arts Center. When...

Comstock Mining Update — May 31, 2019

June 2, 2019

Comstock Mining Update — February 4, 2019

February 4, 2019

Comstock Mining Update – September 26, 2018

September 26, 2018

Comstock Mining Update — May 26, 2018

May 26, 2018

150-Year-Old Locomotive Reno Returns to Virginia City

V&T Railroad Virginia City – Video Gallery

Nevada Southern Railway, Boulder City Nevada

Nevada Southern Railway – Video Gallery

From Winemucca to the Sea

Nevada Traveler - November 12, 2022 0

Winnemucca to the Sea The Winnemucca to the Sea highway was proposed by locals and ranchers In the 1950’s thinking they needed a direct route...

Mark Twain Couldn’t Take a Joke

July 2, 2021

NevadaGram #233 -A Culinary Adventure in Carson and Smith Valleys

May 30, 2021

NevadaGram #232 – Gold Hill to Tonopah the Long Way

April 23, 2021

NevadaGram #231 — Johnny Skae’s Fish Fry

April 6, 2021

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NevadaGram #86 – The Great Race Revisited

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Las Vegas – Correspondence – August 2015

Railroad Motor Cars of Nevada – Part II

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Hawthorne – Correspondence – July 2015

Nevada Traveler - July 1, 2015 0

Hawthorne The Hawthorne Tornado: The first damage done by the tornado was out at the “Base,” Area 49, just east of town. A building there sustained...

Adding to Your Nevada Bookshelf

Nevada Traveler - January 4, 2022 1

Ten years ago I wrote a piece about essential books for your Nevada Bookshelf. When I came across it recently and decided to update it, it occurred to me that because lots of likely candidates have been published in the meantime and we humans don't all share the same...

150-Year-Old Locomotive Reno Returns to Virginia City

Nevada Traveler - December 18, 2021 0

Most Famous Engine in Movie History, Star in 100+ Films The most historic existing icon of Nevada’s past, the 150-year-old Virginia & Truckee Railroad steam locomotive Reno, has made its final run full circle, returning home to Virginia City, where it originally operated from 1872 – 1938. The famous engine, featured...

The Ghosts Have Nearly Gone

Nevada Traveler - November 16, 2021 1

If I had a time machine, my first journey (after taking care of some personal business) would be to Goldfield. I'd set the chronometer to arrive on the morning of July 4, 1923. I'd have breakfast at the Palm Cafe and take in the Independence Day parade, still spectacular...

Nevada Highway Patrol, 1972

Nevada Traveler - September 29, 2021 1

I was driving north out of Carson City on a bitter cold night last February with a broken headlight and the fresh air vent jammed open, sipping at a can of beer when the Highway Patrol pulled me over. I put the beer can on the floor and fished out...

Yank Van Duzen, Hero

Nevada Traveler - August 3, 2021 0

by Harry Gorham To return To the subject of ventilation — those men in Gould and Curry could not escape to a shaft a thousand feet deep or a tunnel 1500 feet long because the deadly gas creeps in too silently, too insidiously, too stealthily. The way to stop that...