NevadaGram #233 -A Culinary Adventure in Carson and Smith Valleys
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 adventure: Dining Out in the Sagebrush. We left Gold Hill...
NevadaGram #210 – 2019 Must-See Must-Do and a Whole Lot More
As always, this is Not a Best List but a list of some of the people, places and things we encountered in the past year that we feel deserve a shout-out.
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NevadaGram #208 – Nevada in Paris
Last year Robin and I spent several magical days following Sam Clemens around Paris and when the opportunity came to come back again, I decided to see what else Nevada people have been up...
NevadaGram #75 – Tonopah, Hollywood
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The San Francisco Chronicle Visits Yucca Mountain.
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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 #196 – Following Mark Twain around Paris
On the 4th of July 1867, Sam Clemens was 32 years old and had acquired the beginnings of a reputation and a career by becoming Mark Twain. He had embarked on a 5-month tour...
Nevada Gram #13 – Wendover, Lake Mead, Pyramid Lake
The new edition of The Complete Nevada Traveler is still at the printer, where they are warming up the presses at last. We are expecting that big truck to roll into Gold Hill with...
NevadaGram #216 – The Nevada Hall of Fame
The Nevada Hall of Fame
When it first occurred to me that Nevada has no Hall of Fame I envisioned a big sign on the outside of a large empty building.
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to...
NevadaGram #224 – The Mind Reader
by Harry M.Gorham
Due to the frenzy of speculation occasioned by the ore discovery in the Sierra Nevada, every stock quoted in the San Francisco exchange was quoted at ridiculous prices, and those who could...
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 #104 – Mark Twain at Piper’s Opera House
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The New York Times drives across Nevada.
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Last fall I was talking...
NevadaGram #190 – Ichthyosaur Digs, Rural RoundUp in Elko, Nevada Calendar
Rural RoundUp 2017
This year's Cow Counties Tourism Pro-Am convened in Elko. Story below.
More than 500 fans of a Reno-brewed IPA, and of its namesake — a giant prehistoric ocean-dwelling reptile — attended a fundraiser at...
NevadaGram #228 – Venturing out into the Sagebrush Sea
After gamely sheltering in place for months, Robin and I decided to hit the road again during the last week in October. It was a relief, but it wasn't a return to the way...
NevadaGram #211 – Power Dining in Carson City, Skiing Elko, Driving Dirt Roads and...
19 Carson City Restaurants Legislators
and Lobbyists Visited in 2019
You Should Too!
by Barry Smith
When 63 legislators and hundreds of lobbyists arrive in Carson City for the 2019 session of the Nevada Legislature they continued a...
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 town and county seat. Its history resembles that of dozens...
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 Wells Fargo bank) for the take-out we put in the...
NevadaGram #222 – Bighorn Sheep Reintroduced at Pyramid Lake
by Kalen Goodluck/High Country News
The day began early for the crew of scientists, state and tribal officials — long before the sun rose across the snow-covered sagebrush. “How many are you going to give us?”...
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 #161 Sesquicentennial Nevada Day
Nevada Day was very big this year, being the Sesquicentennial edition and all. The year-long effort to celebrate the milestone with events and activities around the state — more than 500 of them...
NevadaGram #14 – Wendover, Ely, Hawthorne, Boulder City
The new edition of The Complete Nevada Traveler has rolled into Gold Hill in a big 18-wheeler from Dexter, Michigan. We've unloaded 4,000 copies and are now shipping the 1,000 copies that have already...
NevadaGram #44 – Tonopah Mining Park, Warm Springs, the E.T. Highway and Mesquite
E-Mail of the Month
I saw one of your travel reviews about Goldfield on line. We took Mylo for a little tour of Nevada museums, parks, and oddities last week. Mylo is 5 now, and...
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 Robin and I (and once, Shorty — he loved the...
NevadaGram #192 – Snake Valley Days at Baker
All you have to do to get to Baker from anywhere in Nevada is to get on US 50 and drive east. That's what Robin and I did, and then drove up the east...
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 usual sense. Most have been scuffed and heaved about too...
NevadaGram #204 – Kingston, Night Out at Lake Tahoe and Mountain Biking Trails...
The best way to get to Kingston is by way of US 50 to Austin, then west down into the Reese River Valley a couple of miles and then south on the road marked...
NevadaGram #227 – Nevada’s Forgotten Movie Star, Farewell for a While
Wholesome . . . Delectable . . . Enchanting
by David W. Toll
You might think that a state with so few celebrities to brag about would make a big deal about a movie star who...
NevadaGram #5 – Battle Mountain, “The Ghost Train of Old Ely” Goes to the...
Our travels have been somewhat curtailed by heavy workload in January. One product of the work is the spiffy new website for the Hotel Nevada & Gambling Hall in Ely, featuring the dancing burro....
NevadaGram #221 – The Last Stagecoach Robbery, Dirt Roads, Bicycling US 50
Jarbidge Nevada lies within the narrow steep sided canyon that's the channel for the middle Fork of the Bruneau River, 9 miles south of the Idaho border in the northeast corner of Nevada at...
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 never find the There there. Now with the help of...
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 3 children 8 - 12 and we headed east on...
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 #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 #54 – Valentine’s Day in Lovelock, Armpit’s Over, Art in Baker and Las...
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The New York Times goes shopping in Las Vegas.
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NevadaGram #181 – Comstock Mining Update
We failed.
For more than five years residents of the Comstock tried to keep an upstart mining company from digging an enormous pit mine in the the Virginia City National Historic Landmark just above Devil's...
NevadaGram #165 — Wheezer Dell, Two New Breweries
I've just come from spending three pleasant days delving into the Wheezer Dell archive, and especially the thick scrapbook into which Eleanor Dell had pasted newspaper clippings about her husband's career as a baseball...
NevadaGram #169 — Lovelock Cave, Comstock Mining Update, Nevada Correspondence and More
One of Nevada's greatest attractions to visitors goes mostly unmentioned, even by our most enthusiastic promoters: Time Travel.
This is conveniently accessible and easy to do here, and one enjoyable way to do it is...
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 #70 – ATVs in Elko County, Gridley Days in Austin
As Nevada's back country becomes more accessible, our wide open countrysides are attracting more and more visitors. A few weeks ago, they attracted Robin, Chris and me.
Chris is 17 now, and to celebrate 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...
NevadaGram #99 – The Death of Indian Johnny
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Via Magazine Visits the National Finals Rodeo.
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Now for some time travel....
