NevadaGram #98 – Death Valley and Tonopah
What They're saying About Us
The New York Daily News gnaws on some ribs.
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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...
NevadaGram #153 – Getting There, Post Card from Shorty and “Queen of the Night”
Getting there. When you hear someone say that our long highway distances are boring, it's easy for a Nevada-lover to suppose they lack a...
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...
From Winnemucca to the Sea
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...
NevadaGram #223 – Butch Cassidy & the Great Winnemucca Bank Robbery
Winnemucca is a tranquil town on the Humboldt River, a trading post transformed by the railroad into a lively shipping center, a bumptious cow...
The Mountains of Nevada
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...
NevadaGram #152 – Dog Trials in Winnemucca, Hotel Comes Down in Eureka, Comstock Mining...
Comstock Mining Update
This month's Comstock Mining Update begins with the Lyon County Commissioners meeting in Yerington on Thursday, March 6. (CONTINUED below or click the link...
NevadaGram #140 – Rural Round Up in Pahrump, An afternoon in Carson Valley, A...
April's great event for those of us non-metropolitans who strive to build Nevada Tourism, is Rural Round Up.
It is the annual gathering of...
Yank Van Duzen, Hero
by Harry Gorham
To return To the subject of ventilation — those men in Gould and Curry could not escape to a shaft a thousand...
NevadaGram #254
Eureka!
Need to get away for a few days? Decompress from that city living? Maybe just a change of scenery? Eureka is your ticket. Located...
NevadaGram #158 – A Visit to Winnemucca, Comstock Mining Update
When we planned last week's visit to Winnemucca we determined to try nothing but new restaurants and lodgings. No Griddle for breakfast. No Martin...
NevadaGram #43 – Frenchies in Winnemucca, a Bad/Good Day in Black Rock City and...
We were up early on a sunny Winnemucca Saturday.
We gave Shorty a rare treat, a walk on level streets, and then headed for...
NevadaGram #105 – Elko, Jiggs and an Excursion Down South
I'm getting to really, really like Elko. Anyone who reads the NevadaGram knows that I've really liked Elko for a long time, but now...
Day Tripping for Ceramics and Pottery
There are a number of fine ceramic and pottery studios within a few hours of Reno and they are all having sales just in...
NevadaGram #86 – The Great Race Revisited
Luke Rizzuto was one of the people who thrilled when a centennial re-creation of the Great New York to Paris automobile race was announced....
Mark Twain Couldn’t Take a Joke
“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...
NevadaGram #168 – Far Western Nevada (Bridgeport, Bodie and Aurora)
Nevada Correspondence
In this NevadaGram we debut a new section of Correspondence from around the state on matters of interest to Nevada-lovers, both residents and...
NevadaGram #232 – Gold Hill to Tonopah the Long Way
It began well.
We were underway from Gold Hill more or less on time, found the new location of VN Pho in Fallon (behind the...
NevadaGram #60 – A Visit to Aurora, “Nevada’s Ghost City of the Dawn” and...
What They're saying About Us
The LA Times Discovers Pyramid Lake.
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NevadaGram #49 – Hooters in Las Vegas, Cow Camp, Old Yella Dog Ranch
What They're saying About Us
The San Francisco Chronicle goes boy crazy in Las Vegas.
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NevadaGram #195 – Incline Village, Crystal Bay and Coaldale
In all my years of exploring Nevada the most difficult place for me to get a handle on has been Incline Village. I could...
NevadaGram #95 The Nadadada Motel, A Mystery at the Hotel Nevada, and Alice Ramsey...
What They're saying About Us
The New York Times checks into Reno's NadaDada Motel.
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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...
NevadaGram #218 – 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...
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....
NevadaGram #174 – US 50 is Burger Road, Comstock Mining Update
The Best Burgers in the World are found along US 50 in Nevada.
Anyone who has driven the "Loneliest Highway" and had a burger along...
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)....
NevadaGram #177 – Sparks, City of Mystery
Last week, unable to spare the time for a vacation in Tuscany, I decided to spend a day in Sparks.
You might be tempted to...
NevadaGram #148 – A Dream Speech and a Call from Joe
AS I WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND the Governor's Conference on Tourism in Las Vegas this week, I found myself reflecting on the Great State...
NevadaGram #156 – A Visit to Genoa, Post Card from Shorty,
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...
NevadaGram #160 — Hamilton, the Belmont Mill and Wheezer Dell
In Nevada, even in our Age of Tesla, it is still possible to venture as deep into history and prehistory as you care to...
NevadaGram #62 – October 2006 Fernley, Gold Point, Carson Valley and Lovelock
What They're saying About Us
The Boston Globe Visits Laughlin.
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NevadaGram #27 – The MaryJane Sisters, a Reno Hotel with a Heart and Doing...
The only disappointment of my recent visit to Las Vegas was that Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas was not yet open.
The $12 million, enclosed...
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...
NevadaGram #198 – Must See-Must Do, Hot Spring Getaway
It is traditional for us to unlimber our Nevada 'Must-See Must Do' list in this first edition of the New Year. In the past...
NevadaGram #141 – Living Large in Laughlin, Postcard from Shorty
Laughlin should have been named Fun City —
Laughlin NV in the 1970s no-one comes here on business unless they are in the fun...
NevadaGram #11 – Fallon, Gabbs, Berlin-Ichthyosaur, Ione, The Toiyabes, Austin
Here's a weekend excursion into central Nevada that seemed to have a week's worth of pleasure in it. Our group was husband, wife and...
NevadaGram #1 Our Maiden Voyage into the Desert.
Recently Robin and I made a four day (too brief) cruise through the sagebrush sea. Here are some highlights —
We sped past Lovelock, made...
NevadaGram #188 – Meet Me at the Martin, Nevada Calendar for March
In the summer of 2004 a man and his wife set out from Maine, heading west for their new life in Nevada, and on...
