Thursday, December 5, 2024

Sutro’s Tunnel Vision

1
Sutro’s Tunnel Vision By David Moore In the early 1860s Adolph Sutro, a 30-year-old Prussian who ran a cigar business in San Francisco, joined the rush to Virginia City and the Comstock Lode. Like most of...

150-Year-Old Locomotive Reno Returns to Virginia City

0
Most Famous Engine in Movie History, Star in 100+ Films The most historic existing icon of Nevada’s past, the 150-year-old Virginia & Truckee Railroad steam locomotive Reno, has made its final run full circle, returning...
Mark Twain

Mark Twain Couldn’t Take a Joke

0
“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 #231 — Johnny Skae’s Fish Fry

0
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...

The Mind Reader

0
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...
Corrado De Gasperis

Will the Real Corrado De Gasperis Please Stand Up?

0
In September 2017 the Carson City TEDx committee chose Corrado De Gasperis as a speaker for an event at the Brewery Arts Center. When residents of Silver City expressed dismay and explained that their...
V&T Rairoad Virginia City Nevada

V&T Railroad Virginia City – Video Gallery

0
All the classic Ed Gallegos videos made by Jim Lohse are collected here, binge watch or take them at your own pace. 
―advertisement―
- Advertisement -