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NevadaGram #154 – Rural Round Up in Ely, Comstock Mining Update, Burning Man Art...
By mid-afternoon on the last day in April, a bus coming from Reno, another one from Las Vegas and a slew of passenger cars coming from every which way had all accomplished the voyage...
NevadaGram #62 – October 2006 Fernley, Gold Point, Carson Valley and Lovelock
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The Boston Globe Visits Laughlin.
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A few days ago I found myself...
Gordon Frazier
Somewhere in the rocky high ground North east of Nevada's pyramid Lake there's a white Mustang mare that Gordon Fraser and I would like to bring out one day.
She's one of three or four...
NevadaGram #226 – Wagon Train Ambush
Tuesday July 1 1976 was a grand and glorious day in the history of the Comstock Lode, the day the whole town of Silver City came out to play.
As the Gold Hill NEWS reported...
NevadaGram #213 – Nevada Ghost Town Comes to Life
by Justin Panson
The Ghost Town has the most beautiful name, drawn from botanical nomenclature, at once Victorian and old western. But I omit it here, based on keeping secret places secret. With a place...
NevadaGram #200 – Skiing the Rubies, A Foodie in Vegas, Shopping in Winnemucca
Introducing a new section of the NevadaGram, Let's Go Outside with Curtis Fong.
"I remember the guide telling us what line he was going to ski and indicating a stop point at the bottom and...
NevadaGram #184 – Gerlach, City of Dreams
South Tahoe Food & Wine Festival
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We drove to Gerlach north from Silver Springs, through Fernley, Wadsworth and Nixon — towns most visitors never notice, if they see them at all...
NevadaGram #183 – World Human-Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain
We are in Battle Mountain for the World Human-Powered Speed Challenge, which is a contest to see whose bicycle can go fastest on five miles of straight, flat Highway 305 about 15 miles south...
NevadaGram #182 – Visits to Eureka, Tonopah and Winnemucca, Richard Bangs Makes it to...
In Silver City, Saturday August 20th was a hot and happy summer's day as townspeople, former residents, grandparents, friends from out of town, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins by the dozens gathered at...
NevadaGram #179 – Exploring the Edge of the World, Comstock Mining Update
Nevada State of Mind
by Richard Bangs
It feels like we’re driving to the edge of the world where the water falls off.
Infinity is just ahead. To the right are mountains that arc up from the...
NevadaGram #176 — Tonopah Rising, Nevada Correspondence
Tonopah, 4 am
The city was sleeping with its night lights on, silent except for the occasional snore of a semi-truck traveling US 95 through its center. The night was warm and the air was...
NevadaGram #175 – Winter at South Shore
Lake Tahoe is well-known as a vacation/recreation destination, and so we made a visit between January snowstorms to see what the Lake has to offer in winter.
“We were like a couple of kids,”...
NevadaGram #173 – Elko’s Christmas Trees, 2016 Must-See Must-Do, Global Tourism Summit
Christmas in Elko is a delightful mini-season that begins each year with the Festival of the Trees, which came this year on the last day of November.
This is one of the major annual art...
NevadaGram #171 – Wheezer Dell
A while back I posted a NevadaGram about Wheezer Dell, the first Nevada-born child — Tuscarora, June 11, 1886 — to grow up to play major league baseball, first for St. Louis in 1912...
NevadaGram #170 – Smith Valley and Yerington, Nevada Correspondence
A while back I recounted our drive along the Bodie Road in far western Nevada, and our homeward journey via Smith Valley and Yerington. Shortly after that NevadaGram was dispatched I was chided by...
Nevada Correspondence – August 2015
Each month our intrepid correspondents file dispatches from around the state. In this edition:
Gardnerville, Gerlach, Las Vegas, Lincoln County, Mesquite, Railfanning, Sparks, Tuscarora, West Wendover
Gardnerville
Meet Carolyn, the afternoon bartender at the "New" Overland Restaurant...
NevadaGram #159 – I-80 postcard from Shorty
Robin, Shorty and I recently made a pleasant trip across northern Nevada to update Shorty's book, and here is some of what we discovered along the way.
Two Burning Man art pieces and one locally...
NevadaGram #157 – Landsailing Championships on Smith Creek Playa, Plus Bulletins from Austin, Wells,...
The World Championship Land Sailing Competition was held last month at Smith Creek Playa west of Austin alongside old US 50 (now Nevada 722). It had been held in recent years at Ivanpah in...
NevadaGram #155 – Virginia City, an SOS from Lake Tahoe and More
Was it a mistake for me to be your guide to Virginia City?
I know too much.
It's helpful to be able to point out that B Street was once Virginia City's Champs-Elysees. It's just a...
NevadaGram #149 – Comstock Mining Update, “Jesus’ Birthday”
The struggle over pit mining in the Virginia City National Historic Landmark has shifted south through Devil's Gate from Storey to Lyon County. At last month's scheduled hearing before the Lyon County Planning...
Nevada Day in Carson City 2013
It began as Admission Day in 1938 with a modest celebration at the Capitol and the first such parade on Carson Street.
TODAY IT IS NEVADA DAY, the grandest 72-hour day of our year, and...
NevadaGram #147 – Nevada Day in Carson City
IT IS NEVADA DAY, the grandest 72-hour day of our year, and the great Nevada Day Parade in Carson City on Saturday is its most splendid expression, a gaudy 3-hour procession of floats, bands...
NevadaGram #143 – Comstock Mining Updates
Since late in 2010 the necessity of defending the Virginia City National Historic Landmark against surface mining has meant interrupting the NevadaGram from time to time.
Compared to the other frustrations and annoyances we and...
NevadaGram #106 – The California Trail and Virginia City’s Camel Races
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Nevada's ancient Bristlecones are under attack.
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I was pounding the keys upstairs over an Elko barroom, so I missed the...
NevadaGram #103 – From Reno To Winnemucca and Back By Train
I mentioned in an earlier NevadaGram (not getting the NevadaGram yet? Sign up here) that there will be an almost-impromptu birthday party for Edna Purviance in October at Winnemucca.
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The...
NevadaGram #102 – A Side Trip to San Francisco
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The New York Times visits the non-smoking casino in Fernley.
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NevadaGram #73 – Rolling Thunder, More on Roy Frisch and More Nevada Stars
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The New York Times takes the kids to Las Vegas.
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In the...
NevadaGram #63 – Eureka, Elko, Las Vegas, Gold Point, Wadsworth
If they gave a Pulitzer Prize for grocery stores, Raine's Market in Eureka would have won it already.
It is an amazing store. In its 19th century building — pressed tin ceiling, oiled wood floor...
NevadaGram #60 – A Visit to Aurora, “Nevada’s Ghost City of the Dawn” and...
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The LA Times Discovers Pyramid Lake.
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Last time's piece on Ghost Towns...
NevadaGram #42 – Pogonip, Reveries and Remembrance
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The New York Times Magazine meets Michael Heizer.
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After the great snows...
Trip Report #20 April 2003 Mizpah Hotel, Wooly Worms and Memorial Day around Nevada
The sternwheeler Tahoe Queen presents, “Mark Twain’s Tales of Tahoe,” a daily two hour and 15 minute Emerald Bay cruise departing at 2:30 pm daily and starring McAvoy Layne as the Ghost of Twain.
Our...
NevadaGram #12 – August All Around Nevada, Love Note to Beatty and Cowboy Salt
The new edition of The Complete Nevada Traveler is now at the printer. Getting it there took all our August traveling time, so this Trip Report is a melange of items from around the...
NevadaGram #2 Cantaloupe Festival in Fallon and Lattin Farms
After we sent our inaugural newsletter last month we received many encouraging messages from Nevada-lovers, including this one:
Hi my name is Mark St.Germain, I am in the Navy and was stationed in Fallon for...