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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

Winnemucca Valley Road Trip, Sutro Tunnel Update, & More

Nevada Traveler - June 26, 2023 1

Winnemucca Valley Road Trip A Sutro Tunnel Update Jeff Nicholson Art Show in Elko _______________________________________________________________________ Winnemucca Valley Road Trip This...

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

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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...

Comstock Mining Update — March 18, 2020

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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

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Comstock Mining Update – September 26, 2018

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Comstock Mining Update — May 26, 2018

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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

The Mountains of Nevada

David W. Toll - September 10, 2023 1

Nevada’s mountains are like sleeping women, sprawled languorously across every horizon. Peasant women: only a few of them are beautiful or elegant in the...

Winnemucca Valley Road Trip, Sutro Tunnel Update, & More

June 26, 2023

Mark Twain Couldn’t Take a Joke

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Comstock Mining Update — August 1, 2015

Nevada Traveler - August 1, 2015 0

An amazing turnaround: Comstock Mining Inc's share price had tanked at the NYSE, down, down, down from $1.11 on January 16 to 38¢ on...

Winnemucca Valley Road Trip, Sutro Tunnel Update, & More

Nevada Traveler - June 26, 2023 1

Winnemucca Valley Road Trip A Sutro Tunnel Update Jeff Nicholson Art Show in Elko _______________________________________________________________________ Winnemucca Valley Road Trip This road trip was inspired by the book Twenty Miles from a Match by Sarah Olds. It tells the story of her determination to successfully homestead with her 6 children and invalid husband in the...

Sutro’s Tunnel Vision

Nevada Traveler - May 25, 2022 1

Sutro’s Tunnel Vision By David Moore In the early 1860s Adolph Sutro, a 30-year-old Prussian who ran a cigar business in San Francisco, joined the rush to Virginia City and the Comstock Lode. Like most of the hordes of gold and silver seekers pouring over the Sierra, the Jewish entrepreneur had...

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...

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Railroading in Nevada

Nevada Traveler - April 5, 2016 0

This Is What a Transportation Revolution Looks Like by Laura Bliss To understand a true transportation revolution, I wanted to drive a coal-fired locomotive. On the...

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