NevadaGram #87 – Mark Twain in Hawthorne, Tonopah, Eureka
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.
He has a rare 1918 Chevrolet touring car with an...
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 #49 – Hooters in Las Vegas, Cow Camp, Old Yella Dog Ranch
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The San Francisco Chronicle goes boy crazy in Las Vegas.
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NevadaGram #107 – Squaw Tom, Mike O’Callaghan and Sam Clemens
I wish I could tell you how I missed this one when we were gathering Tom's stories for the collection published a few years ago. It's an extension to one of the stories that...
NevadaGram #85 – September 2008 Meet Squaw Tom and Halloween around Nevada
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The Sacramento Bee enjoys Oktoberfest in the Carson Valley.
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NevadaGram #139 – March 2013 Sourdough Slim and Squaw Tom Sanders
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The New York Times goes winter kayaking on Lake Tahoe.
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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...
NevadaGram #229 – The Forlorn Hope, Ely Film Festival
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In December I came across a website that floored me. It amounts to the detailed report of a group of talented, smart, brave people who immersed themselves in a chilling event in American history...
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 visitors. Please try a taste, and add your comments in...
NevadaGram #66 – Carson City, Goldfield and elsewhere
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution celebrates Chinese New Year in Las Vegas.
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NevadaGram #111 – Stayed Home – Working to help prevent pit mining on the...
Corrado De Gasperis, CEO of Comstock Mining Inc. appeared at a meeting of the Silver City Town Advisory Board. He announced that his company had acquired some 6,000 acres of mining claims on and...
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 crucial gene.
As a service to our subscribers, we present...
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 #194 – Laughlin, Art Flap at Baker
We'd been a long day on the road and running late, hurrying now that a sunset was setting the sky on fire, worried we'd find all the campsites taken. We'd visited the Big Bend...
NevadaGram #40 – December 2004 Merry Christmas
Season's Greetings
from The Nevada Travel Network
and the Ghost Train of Old Ely!
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 the way the wife suffered a cracked tooth. Despite her...
NevadaGram #217 – Eureka 4th of July, Yerington Museum, Fort Churchill
Nevada's biggest cities are near its edges, and as a consequence our city-dwellers don't have as much connection with small town Nevada as they might otherwise, and so they miss out on a big...
NevadaGram #219 – IHPV Speed Challenge, NevadaGram Wins ‘Best Writing’ Award
It's a little after 7 on a clear September morning and we are standing on a large open flat on the east side of Highway 305 about 20 minutes south of Battle Mountain and...
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 #172 – Carson City at Christmastime
Carson City is a real city now. No, really.
There are lots of ways to measure this, but in my mind the true mark of a city is whether or not you can do all...
NevadaGram #109 – Inside Nevada’s Mutable Border: Randsburg California
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The folks from Vail go skiing in the Rubies.
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On the map, Nevada is an oddly shaped chunk...
NevadaGram #99 – The Death of Indian Johnny
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Via Magazine Visits the National Finals Rodeo.
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NevadaGram #72 – Stayed home
Our travels came to a screeching halt last month when daughter Rachel was married in Alaska and son John came home on leave from Iraq.
But we'll be kicking up dust again next month.
Overheard at...
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 above)
There is every kind of mid-winter fun available in Nevada,...
NevadaGram #123 – Must-see, Must-do for 2012
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The Guardian (UK) cuts a rug in Las Vegas.
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NevadaGram #76 – Merry Christmas
Season's Greetingsfrom the Battle Mountain Santa Claus
and all of us at the Nevada Travel Network
NevadaGram #90 – Fallon is Fun City, Sidetrip to Washington DC, a Glimpse of...
For a long time I've wanted to write an article titled "Fallon for Lovers" but I never had the gumption to go there with romance in mind. But even though the idea has slid...
NevadaGram #93 – Open Studios in Tuscarora, the California Trail Interpretive Center
As winter gives way to spring, the state shakes off the last of its snow with a spate of Memorial Day celebrations. The most unusual of them takes place in Tuscarora in odd years,...
Trip Report #18 – Pahrump Winery, The MaryJane Sisters, Nevada Variations
At Pahrump the buzz is all about the sale of the state's first and only Winery to Western Horizon Resorts, a Colorado company which is now building a new 250-unit RV Park alongside the...
NevadaGram #16 – Carson Valley, Nevada Art, and Eureka
Genoa has for years had a certain panache as Nevada's Carmel, but it's only recently that travelers could think about Minden or Gardnerville as a pleasant getaway destination.
Very quietly the Carson Valley has become...
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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NevadaGram #48 – Laughlin, Goldfield, Gerlach
I remember making my first visit to Laughlin as the scramble to build casinos here was in full froth.
The main boulevard was still unpaved, with giant pot holes that made the drive seem like...
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...
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 feet deep or a tunnel 1500 feet long because the...
NevadaGram #88 – Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Season's Greetings
from the Reno Santas
and all of us at the Nevada Travel Network
NevadaGram #55 – A Capella in Eureka, Muhammad Cartoons in Wendover, Dragon Boats in...
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The Los Angeles Times finds Rhyolite.
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The Eureka Opera House is an...
NevadaGram #142 – A Visit to Tuscarora
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Tuscarora's great event takes place every other year, usually over the Memorial Day weekend: Open Studios, during which visitors may tour the ateliers and meet the "sensitives" (as my friend Buckeye Blake...
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 #151 – Boulder City, a Post Card from Shorty
We are doing ourselves a big favor by visiting Boulder City in February. It is the perfect cure for a Comstock winter, if you're not going to Belize. When we are snowed in and battling...
