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 #108 – Edna’s 115th in Winnemucca, Scandal in old Tonopah
Despite its affinity for famous people from Kit Carson to Frank Sinatra, Nevada has relatively few notable natives. Even Wayne Newton came from somewhere else. How many Nevada-born celebrities can you name?
Emma Nevada was...
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 #106 – The California Trail and Virginia City’s Camel Races
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Nevada's ancient Bristlecones are under attack.
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I was pounding the keys upstairs over an Elko barroom, so I missed the...
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 #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 #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 #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 #101 – Old Sheepherders Party in Baker, Fire & Ice in Ely
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The Los Angeles Times can't find Beatty anywhere.
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Robin and...
NevadaGram #100 – December 2009 Merry Christmas
Season's Greetings
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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....
NevadaGram #98 – Death Valley and Tonopah
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The New York Daily News gnaws on some ribs.
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Someone once described...
NevadaGram #97 – Squaw Tom’s ‘Cat Queedup’ and uniquely delightful experiences in Carson City,...
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The San Francisco Chronicle drives around Lake Tahoe.
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Last year I introduced...
NevadaGram #96 – Carson Valley and Lake Tahoe
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CNN discovers gold in Elko.
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We've been living high and low in...
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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As the whole...
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 #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,...
NevadaGram #92 – April 2009 Incident at Tonka Tunnel, Hollywood comes to Gold...
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The New York Times eats lamb testicles in Virginia City.
History books will tell you that the first American soldier to shed his blood in World War I was a lieutenant...
NevadaGram #91 – Poetry in Fallon, Art & A Capella in Eureka
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The New York Times eats lamb testicles in Virginia City.
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We can't...
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 #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 #88 – Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
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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 #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.
He has a rare 1918 Chevrolet touring car with an...
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 #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 #83 – Cruising the Sagebrush Sea
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The LA Times gets into the swim in Las Vegas.
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Since he...
NevadaGram #82 – Historic loss in Silver City, Jim Butler Days in Tonopah, Farewell...
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The New York Times drives the Extraterrestrial Highway.
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May was Historical Preservation...
NevadaGram #79 – On the Road, 1908, 1909 and 2008
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The Boston Globe Visits Laughlin.
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On the anniversary of The Great 1908...
NevadaGram #78 – V&T Reconstruction, Sheepherders’ Ball, Earthquake in Wells and notes from all...
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The Guardian (UK) attends Elko county caucuses.
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The railroad is coming! Slowly,...
NevadaGram #77 – Pahrump Valley Winery, Goldfield’s Northern Saloon and More
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The Chicago Tribune goes ice skating in Las Vegas.
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I visited Pahrump...
NevadaGram #76 – Merry Christmas
Season's Greetingsfrom the Battle Mountain Santa Claus
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NevadaGram #75 – Tonopah, Hollywood
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The San Francisco Chronicle Visits Yucca Mountain.
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NevadaGram #74 – Laughlin, Tonopah
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The New York Times takes a cruise on the Desert Princess.
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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 #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.
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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 #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...
