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Mark Twain Couldn’t Take a Joke

Yank Van Duzen, Hero

Nevada Traveler - August 3, 2021 0

To return To the subject of ventilation — those men in Gould and Curry could...

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...

Pahrump Correspondence – December 2019

Vern Hee - November 30, 2019 0

Pahrump off-road experience is better with a map Traveling to new places to check out new...

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

V&T Railroad Virginia City – Video Gallery

Nevada Southern Railway, Boulder City Nevada

Nevada Southern Railway – Video Gallery

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

Nevada Traveler - May 30, 2021 3

by David Toll Photographs by Robin Cobbey To celebrate the increasing freedom from pandemic worry and constraint, last weekend Robin and I embarked on a culinary...

NevadaGram #232 – Gold Hill to Tonopah the Long Way

April 23, 2021

NevadaGram #231 — Johnny Skae’s Fish Fry

April 6, 2021

NevadaGram #230 A Visit to Tonopah and Berlin

March 5, 2021

NevadaGram #229 – The Forlorn Hope, Ely Film Festival

January 31, 2021

NevadaGram #228 – Venturing out into the Sagebrush Sea

November 21, 2020

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Red-haired Giant Cannibals at Lovelock Cave? Really?

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Railroad Motor Cars of Nevada – Part II

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South Lake Tahoe Correspondence – June 2017

Brendan Packer - May 31, 2017 0

On one particular day in the month of May, my father and I went for the shakedown cruise on his Sea Ray motorboat. The...

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 is —...

Mark Twain Couldn’t Take a Joke

Nevada Traveler - July 2, 2021 0

“There were many practical jokers in the new Territory. I don’t take pleasure in expressing this fact, for I liked those people; but what I am saying is true. I wish I could say that they were burglars or hat-rack thieves, or something like that, that would be utterly...

The Death of Indian Johnny

Nevada Traveler - May 25, 2021 0

by David Toll Now for some time travel. Buckle up, please. While cleaning out an old building in Virginia City not so long ago, Winson Hong made a fascinating discovery. He found an advertising calendar from 1909, the inexpensive kind with the sponsor's advertising and an illustration printed on a piece...

Edna Purviance: Nevada’s Forgotten Movie Star

Nevada Traveler - July 3, 2020 0

Wholesome . . . Delectable . . . Enchanting Watch Her Movies Here by David Toll You might think that a state with so few celebrities to brag about would make a big deal about a movie star who called Nevada home. But Edna Purviance, who starred with Charlie Chaplin in the...

Silver City Guard Ambushes BiCentennial Wagon Train

- May 20, 2020 0

by David Toll b&w photos by Gary Elam (except as noted) When it was announced that Nevada's Bicentennial Wagon Train would make its first stop at Silver City on its way to Valley Forge, local BiCentennial Committee Chairman Grahame Ross, proprietor of the Golden Gate Bar and a Generalissimo in the...