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...
Adding to Your Nevada Bookshelf
Ten years ago I wrote a piece about essential books for your Nevada Bookshelf. When I came across it recently and decided to update...
The Lost Ski Lodge of the Rubies
"The Ruby Mountains in Northern Nevada weren't always packed with sleds, and the lot of cars full of folks looking to draw their line...
The Ghosts Have Nearly Gone
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...
Betty’s Cards
Pick a Card from the Wall
by Sam Toll
I was born in Carson City Nevada in 1962 and grew up in Gold Hill. I spent my...
Dirt Roads Around Dixie Valley
by Gage T. Smith, the Picon Guy
I enjoy the back country in our great state of Nevada and I get out into it more...
A Visit to Genoa
If you've ever visited the Carson Valley in your lifetime, you can probably still see it clearly in your memory.
The broad green valley, speckled with...
DAYTON is in Virginia City
by Dennis Cassinelli
For many years, my family and I have lived in Dayton, Nevada, “Gateway to the Comstock.” This is where Nevada gold was...
Taming the Bicycle
By Mark Twain
I thought the matter over, and concluded I could do it. So I went down and bought a barrel of Pond's Extract...
Eulogy for a Gambler
The Funeral Oration for Riley Grannan
by Herman W. Knickerbocker
On April 3, 1908, a former Methodist minister faced a small audience crowded into a backroom...
2019 Elko County Fair
We're on our way to the Elko County Fair but you'd never guess it from our route. Elko is on I-80, about 100 miles...
Stalagmites Pinpoint Drying of the American West
Research suggests western U.S. deserts were relatively wet up until 8,200 years ago.
By Jennifer Chu, MIT News
All around the deserts of Utah, Nevada, southern...
The Sheepherders’ Ball, Baker 2010
Robin and I went to Baker for an event unique even here in Nevada where one-of-a-kind is the general rule.
It is the bittersweet Old...
A Brief History of Lincoln County
By Dave Maxwell
Visit Lincoln County this summer. It’s worth it. Part of Nevada’s Silver Trails Territory, it definitely fits that description.
In 1849, during...
All (Dirt) Roads Lead to Picon
by Gage Smith
See my recipe for a Perfect Picon below
I am known to some as The Picon Guy. Now how can a guy like...
Northern Nevada Arts & Artists
Here's what is going on in some of our Northern Nevada Cities in April
Carson City
Carson City has a very positive arts community with many...
Two Nevada Women in Paris’ ‘Belle Epoque’
"La Belle Epoque" in Paris Is defined as the period of social , economic, technological and political progress that took place from 1879-1914, and...
Nevada Arts & Artists – July
by Dana Nollsch
There is an elephant in the northern Nevada room, and its name is Artown.
July is truly a special month in Reno, about...
Bicycling Nevada in August
by Curtis Fong, "the Guy from Tahoe"
August with its hot daytime temps and thunder showers is the Dog Days of Summer when it comes...
Curtis Fong Puts the Skis Away and Pedals Off into the Sunshine
Just like that . . . Winter turns to Spring and Spring turns to Summer. . . .
Plenty of snow left in the mountains...
Corbett vs. Fitzsimmons, Carson City 1897
The dawn of battle day In Carson was all that could be desired by the several thousands of people who have traveled many miles...
Dirt Road to the Top of Minnehaha Canyon
by Gage T. Smith "the Picon Guy"
Sometimes we tend to overlook what is right in our own back yard.
A few weeks ago, some of...
The Last Spike and the First Glimpse of the new Nevada Southern Railway
On Friday morning April 27 Robin and I visited Boulder City and the Nevada State Railroad Museum, home of the Nevada Southern Railway.
The little...
Hiking Among Carson Valley’s Spring Bloom
by Amy DeMuth
As winter days lengthen into spring, nothing ushers in the new season like an ample dose of sunshine, a big breath of...
Winnemucca Valley Road Trip, Sutro Tunnel Update, & More
Winnemucca Valley Road Trip
A Sutro Tunnel Update
Jeff Nicholson Art Show in Elko
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Winnemucca Valley Road Trip
This road trip was inspired by the book Twenty Miles...
Red-haired Giant Cannibals at Lovelock Cave? Really?
By Brendan Riley
Colorful tales of the American West don't fade away easily, even when they seem to have been discounted. Take, for example, the...
The Great Escape from Carson City, September 17, 1871
Volney Rollins checked his sidearm and buttoned his coat against a cold draft as he walked down the concrete hallway toward the dining area....
High Adventures
Exploring the Great Outdoors of Northeastern Nevada
by Brenda J. Waters
There are few spots on this planet that aren’t inhabited, and there are even...
The Famous Garcia World’s Fair Gold Medal Saddle from Elko
The book follows the journey of G.S. Garcia and J.M. Capriola, two legendary saddle makers in northeastern Nevada who made their living from the...
Under the Trampoline
by Squaw Tom Sanders
Well, I’m going to tell you a story about that happened in 1925. I lived in Fallon and it was the...
Northern Nevada Arts & Artists
August is heat in Northern Nevada, and that brings out the festival season as well as quite a few art-oriented events. Let's take a...
A Dirt Road Rant
by Gage T. Smith, the Picon Guy
When David asked me to resume writing about Nevada's Dirt Roads for the Nevadagram, I accepted, but with...
Mark Twain’s First Letter
by Jim Reed
In signing his famous “letter from Carson City” on January 31, 1863, the man directing the pen morphed from Samuel Langhorne Clemens...
Jackrabbits in Winter
by Larry Hyslop
I was walking my dogs along a snow-covered dirt road, bundled up since the temperature was in the teens. A black-tailed jackrabbit...
Sutro’s Tunnel Vision
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...
The Nevada Horoscope
by Ciphers
On October 31, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Act which created Nevada a state in the Union. As his pen touched the...
Nevada’s Dead Towns
by John Muir (1875)
Nevada is one of the very youngest and wildest of the States; nevertheless it is already strewn with ruins that seem...
Ely’s Bristlecone Birkebeiner is Nevada’s First, Best(and Only) Crosscountry Ski Race
by Erick Studenicka
First contested in 1983, the Ely Outdoor Enthusiasts club bills its annual Bristlecone Birkebeiner Cross Country Ski Race in rural White Pine...
The Death of Indian Johnny
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...
