This fun-to-read monthly mini-magazine helps you find the best that Nevada has to offer, alerts you to upcoming events and provides the most current information about Nevada’s routes and destinations.
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 much and their skirts stained with the dried mud of long-vanished inland seas. Even the primitive chic of a forested crest is denied to all but a few of them; the rest make do with threadbare patchworks of scraggy junipers and potbellied pinyon pines draped across their rounded summits. And yet the serene, infinitely feminine presence of these rumpled ranges is mysteriously compelling: their smooth, slumberous forms shade to blue, to purple, to window-glass grey as they recede, rank upon rank, into the distances. And not merely spatial distance, but vast distances through time as well. A billion years ago western Nevada was submerged beneath a narrow arm of the sea that had advanced from the south at a time beyond imagining.Read more
Winnemucca Valley Road Trip A Sutro Tunnel Update Jeff Nicholson Art Show in Elko _______________________________________________________________________ Winnemucca Valley Road Trip This road trip was inspired by the book Twenty Miles from a Match by Sarah Olds. It tells the story of her determination to successfully homestead with her 6 children and invalid husband in the Winnemucca Valley desert west of Pyramid Lake. They took possession of their dusty three-room cabin in 1908 and lived there through 1926. Her story is one of hardships, humor, ingenuity, survival, and prosperity. The homestead is 35 miles from Reno, where they went for supplies. This was usually a 3-day effort: 2 for travel and one for shopping. The drive alone took over 14 hours in good weather and could be harrowing in adverse weather. We decided to follow her route to see what it might have looked like 100 years ago.Read more
Winnemucca Valley Road Trip A Sutro Tunnel Update Jeff Nicholson Art Show in Elko _______________________________________________________________________ Winnemucca Valley Road Trip This road trip was inspired by the book Twenty Miles from a Match by Sarah Olds. It tells the story of her determination to successfully homestead with her 6 children and invalid husband in the Winnemucca Valley desert west of Pyramid Lake. They took possession of their dusty three-room cabin in 1908 and lived there through 1926. Her story is one of hardships, humor, ingenuity, survival, and prosperity. The homestead is 35 miles from Reno, where they went for supplies. This was usually a 3-day effort: 2 for travel and one for shopping. The drive alone took over 14 hours in good weather and could be harrowing in adverse weather. We decided to follow her route to see what it might have looked like 100 years ago.
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 the hordes of gold and silver seekers pouring over the Sierra, the Jewish entrepreneur had one goal: to strike it rich. Sutro knew his strengths and limitations. He wouldn’t find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow with a pick and shovel but rather with his intellect and energy. At first, success in Nevada was elusive. A mill he operated east of Dayton burned down in 1863. He continued to sell cigars but yearned for a greater challenge. He found it with his next endeavor, the Sutro Tunnel, which made him famous as well as rich. His idea was to dig a tunnel to drain the hot waters that plagued the Comstock mines.
