NevadaGram #67 – Winnemucca, Wendover
What They're saying About Us
The Boston Globe Visits Laughlin.
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Winnemucca Love Song:
In the early and...
NevadaGram #37 – Virginia City, Rawhide, Las Vegas, Carson Valley, Ione, Ely and Topaz...
It must have been the rumble of Harleys that woke me up to the fact that things are changing in Virginia City. Landrum's, the locally famous diner on Reno's South Virginia Street (since 1947),...
NevadaGram #3 – Pahrump, Beatty, Battle Mountain Bikes Fallon Dining, Burning Man
Among the e-mails we received in October was this one from Ray Ellinwood of Findlay, Ohio. Thanks, Ray.
Pahrump's pioneer era is over.
Pahrump is having another growth spurt. Much of this rambunctious little city is...
NevadaGram #205 – Hold that Tiger (and those Bears)
I don't quite know how to introduce the strange place in the desert we visited early in July. It is only ten miles off Interstate 80 at Mill City but far removed from what...
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 #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...
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 #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...
NevadaGram #202 – Rural RoundUp in Tonopah, Big Spike in Boulder City, Reno Night...
Rural RoundUp, the annual grand conclave of tourism workers from all around rural Nevada, was held this year in Tonopah. The speakers were insightful and entertaining, the workshops apt and informative, the meals ambitious...
NevadaGram #230 A Visit to Tonopah and Berlin
Bound for the Belvada
by Bob Naugle
We just had to get out of Vegas for President’s Weekend. These days dealing with COVID, and the stress of school, required a break. Besides if I stayed home,...
NevadaGram #53 – The Waver, A Guilty Conscience, Romance in Lovelock and Wine Tasting...
I felt a sudden flash of — was it joy? — in Reno the other day when I saw Nevada's only living saint performing his ongoing miracle.
The Waver! Ed Carlson was walking along...
NevadaGram #47 – Caliente, Panaca, Pioche, Planet X
Among the many things I don't understand is why so few people from Las Vegas are visiting the rest of Nevada.
Of course there has been a mainline connection between Las Vegas and Los Angeles...
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 #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 go. Here's a day trip from Ely or Eureka that...
NevadaGram #45 – Wendover, Wells, Elko and a New State Park for Tonopah?
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The Seattle Times attends the opening of Las Vegas' new $2.7 billion casino hotel.
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NevadaGram #207 – Squaw Tom, The Picon Drinker and the Guy from Tahoe
Fate and circumstance have decreed that this month's NevadaGram will feature Squaw Tom Sanders at the top of the page. This is one of the stories that won him the Nevada Press Association's First...
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 it's really really.
It's city enough to have a Home...
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...
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 I am saying is true. I wish I could say...
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 #50 – The Mary Jane Sisters, Hawthorne Loop Trip, Arc Dome Wilderness
In this long, lingering autumn of sunny skies and still air, lots of adventurous folks have been out exploring the state.
The MaryJane Sisters went from Austin to Ely, with side trips to Cave...
NevadaGram #121 – Mizpah Hotel Opens, Perfect Tourist Comes to Visit
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The Guardian (UK) cuts a rug in Las Vegas.
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The Affectionate and Intimately Detailed Guide to the Most Interesting State in America is available at...
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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #215 – Nevada’s Museums, Dirt Roads, on Wheels and Goings On
Nevada's Museums — What a Collection!
We've gathered glimpses of 60 of Nevada's Museums to introduce a new section of our website devoted to these repositories of our history and culture.
The materials on exhibit vary...
NevadaGram #74 – Laughlin, Tonopah
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The New York Times takes a cruise on the Desert Princess.
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NevadaGram #225 – Cowboy Joe, Carson Valley, Valley of Fire, Burning Man
by David Toll
If I hadn't slowed to look down the road west, I probably wouldn't have noticed the eight-year-old Chevy parked on the shoulder about 100 yards from the intersection. The hood of the...
NevadaGram #89 A Little of Everything
In previous NevadaGrams (here and here) I pointed to some Nevadans who have made prominent acting careers, but how did I miss Reno Browne?
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The New York Times checks out...
NevadaGram #166 – Rural RoundUp, The One and Only McKeen Car, The Diana Mine
This year's Rural RoundUp — the 25th Annual — was held in the Carson Valley. For the rural tourism marketers in attendance it was an enjoyable visit to one of the most beautiful places...
NevadaGram #94 June 2009 Rio de Janeiro, Pine Grove
I'm a long way from Tuscarora, about 200 feet in the air and 5,000 miles from the nearest sagebrush.
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The New York Times drives the Extraterrestrial Highway.
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NevadaGram #178 – Rural RoundUp in Laughlin, Detour to Paris
Rural RoundUp is the annual conclave of Nevada's tourism industry, Cow County division, a party it throws for itself. The venue rotates; last year in the beautiful Carson Valley in the shadow of the...
NevadaGram #122 – Bookstorming in eastern Nevada
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The folks from Vail go skiing in the Rubies.
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Our dog Shorty is a 35-lb terrier, yellow...
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 from the Utah line. Heading out from Gold Hill, about...
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 #68 – April 2007 Gold Point, Tuscarora, Las Vegas and Laughlin
This time instead of looking back on a visit here or there, I'm looking forward. But the basic idea is the same: enjoying Nevada. And I'm hopeful that the sunny skies will especially inspire...
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 #146 – Andy & the Snake, A Postcard from Shorty
THE NEW Harrah's Hotel was one of four or five buildings that rose up out of Reno's grimy brick downtown like bright porcelain teeth in a mouthful of rotting stumps. I had begun talking...
