Tag: Silver City
NevadaGram #226 – Wagon Train Ambush
Tuesday July 1 1976 was a grand and glorious day in the history of the Comstock Lode, the day the whole town of Silver...
Silver City Guard Ambushes BiCentennial Wagon Train
by David Toll
b&w photos by Gary Elam (except as noted)
When it was announced that Nevada's Bicentennial Wagon Train would make its first stop at...
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...
Comstock Mining Update — February 4, 2019
Comstock Mining Inc stock took a jump! After falling to 13¢ as recently as January 24th, the share price burst up to 19¢ before...
NevadaGram #210 – 2019 Must-See Must-Do and a Whole Lot More
As always, this is Not a Best List but a list of some of the people, places and things we encountered in the past...
NevadaGram #190 – Ichthyosaur Digs, Rural RoundUp in Elko, Nevada Calendar
Rural RoundUp 2017
This year's Cow Counties Tourism Pro-Am convened in Elko. Story below.
More than 500 fans of a Reno-brewed IPA, and of its namesake —...
NevadaGram #182 – Visits to Eureka, Tonopah and Winnemucca, Richard Bangs Makes it to...
In Silver City, Saturday August 20th was a hot and happy summer's day as townspeople, former residents, grandparents, friends from out of town, aunts,...
Virginia City Correspondence – September 2016
The Virginia City Hillclimb
As August drew to a close, the Ferrari Club's Virginia City Hillclimb brought some spectacular automobiles to the Comstock for the...
Silver City Correspondence – June 2016
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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...
Silver City Correspondence – April 2016
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Silver City, Nevada: 50 Years of Arts and Cultural Resources Production
Although the residents of Silver City, Nevada enjoy their privacy most of the...
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...
Silver City Correspondence – January 2016
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Visit Silver City's 1860 Post Office
The Comstock community of Silver City, Nevada is sometimes mislabeled a "ghost town," but it is far from...
NevadaGram #167 – Adrift at Lake Tahoe, Comstock Mining Update
Imagine that you've made arrangements for an exciting weekend with a friend who shares your enthusiasms and at the last minute it all fell...
NevadaGram #166 – Rural RoundUp, The One and Only McKeen Car, The Diana Mine
This year's Rural RoundUp — the 25th Annual — was held in the Carson Valley. For the rural tourism marketers in attendance it was...
Hal Bales, General Sales Manager – Cherry 8-3718
The first thing I looked at was the phone number. Pat and Betty took ownership of the Golden Gate Bar in the early 1950’s...
NevadaGram #149 – Comstock Mining Update, “Jesus’ Birthday”
The struggle over pit mining in the Virginia City National Historic Landmark has shifted south through Devil's Gate from Storey to Lyon County. ...
NevadaGram #148 – A Dream Speech and a Call from Joe
AS I WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND the Governor's Conference on Tourism in Las Vegas this week, I found myself reflecting on the Great State...
NevadaGram #132 – August 2012 Pit Mining the Comstock and A Visit with...
What They're saying About Us
The New York Times goes crayfishing at Lake Tahoe.
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NevadaGram #126 – February 2012 Pat Nixon Centennial in Ely, “Love Ranch”, More from...
What They're saying About Us
The Christian Science Monitor hails a cab in Las Vegas.
Photo courtesy Hacking Vegas
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NevadaGram #115 – Mining Threatens Virginia City National Historic Landmark, Fitzsimmons Defeats Corbett...
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The New York Times goes winter kayaking on Lake Tahoe.
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NevadaGram #113 – Governor’s Conference
What They're saying About Us
Association News Magazine.
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I attended the Governor's...
NevadaGram #111 – Stayed Home – Working to help prevent pit mining on the...
Corrado De Gasperis, CEO of Comstock Mining Inc. appeared at a meeting of the Silver City Town Advisory Board. He announced that his company...
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...
