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Carson Valley Correspondence – December 2017
Carson Valley is “legendary” as the place where Nevada began in 1851. The Historic Pony Express Trail borders the town of Genoa. Minden is the town that the Dangberg’s built. Wagon roads helped to...
DAYTON is in Virginia City
by Dennis Cassinelli
For many years, my family and I have lived in Dayton, Nevada, “Gateway to the Comstock.” This is where Nevada gold was first discovered in 1849 that ten years later, led to...
NevadaGram #184 – Gerlach, City of Dreams
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We drove to Gerlach north from Silver Springs, through Fernley, Wadsworth and Nixon — towns most visitors never notice, if they see them at all...
Carson Valley Correspondence – October 2016
Hikes of the Month
You know it's coming. Every primal thread in your body is on high alert for it, and it affects every fiber of your being. You have that undeniable feeling of impending...
Carson Valley Correspondence – August 2016
Carson Valley
Hike of the Month: Marlette Lake
With summer temps peaking, Carson Valley folk are heading for the hills -- the Sierra, that is! One of our favorite destinations is Marlette Lake, a 9.5 mile round trip hike...
Carson Valley Correspondence – June 2016
Carson Valley
Hike of the Month
In under an hour's drive from Carson Valley lies a most majestic, surprising and unpopulated mountain range: the Sweetwaters. This month we chose to hike up Sweetwater Canyon, just south...
Silver City Correspondence – June 2016
Silver City
Silver City Welcomes Visitors to Its Free Summer Events
When you're exploring the Comstock and northwestern Nevada this summer, Silver City has lots to offer, and at an elevation of 5,000 feet, the town...
NevadaGram #177 – Sparks, City of Mystery
Last week, unable to spare the time for a vacation in Tuscany, I decided to spend a day in Sparks.
You might be tempted to begin a self-guided tour downtown where Sparks grew up across...
NevadaGram #164 – Eagles & Ag in Carson Valley, Comstock Mining Update, a Post...
The last time I was an agri-tourist was 42 years ago, when I was led inside, outside, through and around a pig farm in Aarhus Denmark, but my memories of it are still vivid...
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 #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 #140 – Rural Round Up in Pahrump, An afternoon in Carson Valley, A...
April's great event for those of us non-metropolitans who strive to build Nevada Tourism, is Rural Round Up.
It is the annual gathering of folks from what we used to call the cow counties...
NevadaGram #96 – Carson Valley and Lake Tahoe
What They're saying About Us
CNN discovers gold in Elko.
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We've been living high and low in...
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 #82 – Historic loss in Silver City, Jim Butler Days in Tonopah, Farewell...
What They're saying About Us
The New York Times drives the Extraterrestrial Highway.
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May was Historical Preservation...
NevadaGram #69 – The World Comes to Virginia City
What They're saying About Us
The Boston Globe Visits Laughlin.
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On Friday May 18, the world of...
NevadaGram #62 – October 2006 Fernley, Gold Point, Carson Valley and Lovelock
What They're saying About Us
The Boston Globe Visits Laughlin.
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A few days ago I found myself...
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 #43 – Frenchies in Winnemucca, a Bad/Good Day in Black Rock City and...
We were up early on a sunny Winnemucca Saturday.
We gave Shorty a rare treat, a walk on level streets, and then headed for The Griddle. In the Nevada culture, breakfast at The Griddle...
NevadaGram #16 – Carson Valley, Nevada Art, and Eureka
Genoa has for years had a certain panache as Nevada's Carmel, but it's only recently that travelers could think about Minden or Gardnerville as a pleasant getaway destination.
Very quietly the Carson Valley has become...
Sutro’s Tunnel Vision
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...
In Elko: Barrick and Newmont Combine
Image: Nina Riggio/High Country News
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by Nick Bowlin, High Country News and Daniel Rothberg, The Nevada Independent
In the final days of 2019, Ches Carney noticed something strange on the bulletin...
The Ghosts Have Nearly Gone
If I had a time machine, my first journey (after taking care of some personal business) would be to Goldfield. I'd set the chronometer to arrive on the morning of July 4, 1923. I'd...
Nevada Highway Patrol, 1972
I was driving north out of Carson City on a bitter cold night last February with a broken headlight and the fresh air vent jammed open, sipping at a can of beer when the...
The Death of Indian Johnny
by David Toll
Now for some time travel. Buckle up, please.
While cleaning out an old building in Virginia City not so long ago, Winson Hong made a fascinating discovery. He found an advertising calendar from...
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 #228 – Venturing out into the Sagebrush Sea
After gamely sheltering in place for months, Robin and I decided to hit the road again during the last week in October. It was a relief, but it wasn't a return to the way...
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 #224 – The Mind Reader
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...
The Mind Reader
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...
NevadaGram #223 – Butch Cassidy & the Great Winnemucca Bank Robbery
Winnemucca is a tranquil town on the Humboldt River, a trading post transformed by the railroad into a lively shipping center, a bumptious cow town and county seat. Its history resembles that of dozens...
NevadaGram #222 – Bighorn Sheep Reintroduced at Pyramid Lake
by Kalen Goodluck/High Country News
The day began early for the crew of scientists, state and tribal officials — long before the sun rose across the snow-covered sagebrush. “How many are you going to give us?”...
NevadaGram #221 – The Last Stagecoach Robbery, Dirt Roads, Bicycling US 50
Jarbidge Nevada lies within the narrow steep sided canyon that's the channel for the middle Fork of the Bruneau River, 9 miles south of the Idaho border in the northeast corner of Nevada at...
The Last Stagecoach Robbery
by David Toll
Jarbidge Nevada lies within the narrow steep sided canyon that channels the middle Fork of the Bruneau River, nine miles south of the Idaho border in the northeast corner of Nevada and...
NevadaGram #220 – Fall Color in Nevada
Ten of the Best Places for Autumn Colors in Nevada
1. Virginia City
Six Mile Canyon extends from Virginia City's north end down past Sugarloaf Mountain to US 50 and presents a glowing portrait of autumn...
Nevada Bicycling Cranks Down as Chair Lifts Start Turning
by Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe
The end of the bike event season is welcomed, after dedicating most of the late winter, spring and summer to event production duties and all the related stress...
Will the Real Corrado De Gasperis Please Stand Up?
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...
September Rides
by Curtis Fong, "the Guy from Tahoe"
Just because the kids are back in school and it’s September, it doesn’t mean that summer is over, and if you’re thinking of storing your camping gear or...
Bicycling on the Hot Seat in August
by Curtis Fong, "The Guy from Tahoe"
Wow! Where is this summer going? Its already August and the tourist season is definitely upon us, limiting road biking events, due to summer traffic and warm temperatures....
NevadaGram #217 – Eureka 4th of July, Yerington Museum, Fort Churchill
Nevada's biggest cities are near its edges, and as a consequence our city-dwellers don't have as much connection with small town Nevada as they might otherwise, and so they miss out on a big...
