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 #75 – Tonopah, Hollywood
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The San Francisco Chronicle Visits Yucca Mountain.
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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 #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 #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 #231 — Johnny Skae’s Fish Fry
Johnny Skae's Fish Fry
by David Toll
This glimpse of the good life on the Comstock, was derived from "My Memories of the Comstock: an eye witness account of The Richest Place on Earth" by Harry...
NevadaGram #84 – Cruising the Sagebrush Sea (continued)
My son John and I arrived in Elko late on a sunny summer afternoon.
John had spent 15 months as a platoon leader in Baghdad, and this excursion into the sagebrush was our first...
NevadaGram #88 – Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Season's Greetings
from the Reno Santas
and all of us at the Nevada Travel Network
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 #127 – March 2012 Rural Round Up at Incline Village, Will James settles...
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The New York Times goes winter kayaking on Lake Tahoe.
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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 most splendid expression, a gaudy 3-hour procession of floats, bands...
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 business. We come for the food, the drink, the easy-going...
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 #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 #34 – All about Nevada
If you have visited our home page lately, you may have clicked the link to Edna Purviance, Nevada's Forgotten Movie Star. For a long time I thought Pansilee Larson and I were the only...
NevadaGram #33 – 1400 miles through the sagebrush, Part Two
It's been a while since I returned home from a 9-day, 1400-mile trip through the sagebrush but I'm still enjoying it. Here are some highlights from the second half of the trip, from Pioche...
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 beer garden, a replica of the famous one in Munich,...
NevadaGram #26 Female Bank Robbers, Winnemucca Wants Your Vote and The Family E Discovers...
There is a gang of female bank robbers headquartered in Austin and making raids as far away as Goldfield. They don't actually rob banks, but they play the part to the hilt, in full...
NevadaGram #15 – Governor’s Conference, Reno, Aurora, Las Vegas
The recent Governor's Conference on Tourism, held in Reno last week, focused on Nevada's new slogan, "Bring It On". Poster Boy for the new campaign (and speaker at the Tuesday luncheon) is Glen Plake,...
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 #6 – Yerington and Winnemucca Dining, The Rainbow Turns 7 and Nevada Goes...
John Sanderson writes from Yerington to enthuse about Joe Dini's Lucky Club on Main Street as one of the finer dinner houses in rural Nevada:
Giuseppe's is open Friday and Saturday nights and it's the...
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 #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 #71 – Finding Roy Frisch
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The S.F. Chronicle walks around Reno.
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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 #114 – Finding Sam Clemens Cove at Lake Tahoe
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The Wall Street Journal visits a proposed wild horse sanctuary in Elko County.
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NevadaGram #134 – October 2012 Goldfield Days, Traveling Teenager
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Indian Country Magazine visits Lake Tahoe.
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Goldfield Days was an adventure.
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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 #201 – Art, Skiing, Driving Old Lonely, the April Calendar
Skiing in Nevada
by Curtis Fong “The Guy From Tahoe”
Miracle March? March Madness? During this past month the Storm Door finally opened and Mother Nature brought winter back to northern Nevada… Gotta hand it to...
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 #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 #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 #95 The Nadadada Motel, A Mystery at the Hotel Nevada, and Alice Ramsey...
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The New York Times checks into Reno's NadaDada Motel.
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NevadaGram #103 – From Reno To Winnemucca and Back By Train
I mentioned in an earlier NevadaGram (not getting the NevadaGram yet? Sign up here) that there will be an almost-impromptu birthday party for Edna Purviance in October at Winnemucca.
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The...
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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #59 – Three Nevada Ghost Towns and How They Survive
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The LA Times Discovers Pyramid Lake.
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Ghost Towns are among Nevada's most...
