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Legends of Lost Nevada

Nevada’s a mysterious place. With conspiracy theories, dark histories and mysteries as far and wide as the Great Basin’s topography itself, there’s plenty out there to let your imagination run wild in the Sagebrush Sea. I still can’t figure some of these stories (and locations) out. I’ll never stop trying.

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I hereby swear on Nevada backroads to never overload your inboxes, ever.

The Kestrel Caller enewsletter will soar into your inboxes about once a month with info about new Song Dog Silver online store updates and upcoming in-person events, the latest story from my blog series Legends of Lost Nevada (where you can read or listen), and sometimes a rare combo of the two.

Ride Shotgun

@sydneymmartinez
Writer. Photographer. Bird Nerd. Silversmith. Amateur Historian and Geologist. Nevadan.
Forever chasing backroads, hot water, and that Great Basin State of mind, follow me to the darkest corners of
one of the most misunderstood states in America one wild raptor, great dirt roads drive, and ghost town at a time.

The exact sort of thing that happens in a dream, isn’t it? ✨

Just Nevada’s upper right hand corner, though. The only thing dreamier is knowing I’ll be back there this week.❤️‍🔥 #insagebrushwetrust

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History and mystery are alive in the most misunderstood state in the West. And it just got a facelift ✨

I write stories about Nevadans, the Great Basin, and where they meet somewhere in a place you’ve probably never heard of. They’re published over on my site. But if you don’t want to read the blogs, they’re available in podcast form on Spotify and now Apple Podcasts, too. Now you can feast your eyes AND ears out any ol’ time you want. ❤️‍🔥 #insagebrushwetrust

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Dialing into a new frequency with a higher antenna. And of course the best boy(s) in the West ❤️‍🔥 #insagebrushwetrust

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Not so calm, definitely bright ✨

…now that Torani Amer is back in Nevada and where it belongs and hitting the floor (again) as the hopeful official state drink of the Silver State, who do we have to talk to about a real Picon emoji anyway??🍷🐏💚 #saypiconplease

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When in doubt, don’t 🌚 #insagebrushwetrust

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Thought about it 🙃🧻 #insagebrushwetrust

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Something amazing happens when forgotten and misunderstood places change the fabric of who you are. Something wonderful happens when they define who you’ve become 🌚 #insagebrushwetrust

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Drop us off anywhere, so long as it’s out there ❤️‍🔥

With the Big Empty at our fingertips—any time, any day—it’s a type of dependency we are endlessly grateful for 🌚#insagebrushwetrust

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Upspiraling 🌪️

This last lap around the sun felt a lot like one big confusing time puzzle, with way too many projects and never enough hours in the day to actually accomplish them all. But I think I got at least one major piece of it figured out, and all imagined up from an ultra-rural hot spring. It IS where I do some of my best work.

It’s giving lifelong dreams becoming real 🤌🏻 It’s giving Summer 2025 🤌🏻🤌🏻 More details on this beautiful mystery later, but for now I know with certainty more hope bubbles up around year 38 than ever before. LFG ❤️‍🔥 #InSagebrushWeTrust

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Just call me the wild burro whisperer 🌚 #teamalkali

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No service, no problems ❤️‍🔥 #getoutside

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Mojave prowlin’ 🔥 #findingnevadawild

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You beautiful savage ❤️‍🔥 #InSagebrushWeTrust

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And we *will* fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, billion stars 🌚 #findingnevadawild

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Singing to wild burros and sipping Nevada grown whiskey from a pool of hot water is definitely the most Nevada way to celebrate the day I could think of 🌚

Well that, the thrills of talking turquoise, Bob Lazar, Cowboy Poets, Goldfield, and far beyond with @mindthetrack in the name of my favorite holiday, Nevada Day. Listen the pod on Apple Podcasts, or over on my site (🔗 in bio).

Happy 160th you big, beautiful, mysterious place ❤️‍🔥#findingnevadawild #mindthetrack

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Nevada Day marks two whole years of Song Dog Silver and Legends of Lost Nevada. Oh what a feeling! 🌚

Every time one of you makes an order or tells me they actually listened to a story I put together, it feels like the first time. I’ll never be able to articulate the lifetime of owed thank yous for the Great Basin-sized dopamine hit and subtle reminder I’m not just playing with rocks and talking to myself over here so instead, I’m super excited to give a little back to you.

In the name of Nevada on her 160th birthday, like and tag your favorite person to get out into this wild state we love so much. (Must be following to win.) Elko will pick a winner sometime at the end of this week.

In the meantime, you’ve helped me keep my dreams alive. I won’t forget it. ❤️‍🔥 #findingnevadawild

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Ever wonder about how different Nevada might be if all the people who rode through it or got rich here actually stayed?? The good news is, whether it’s the people who realized its potential and laid roots here long ago, those who were only here long enough to get across it, or the folks who’d do anything to see George’s inscription with their own eyes, now more than 170 years later, Nevada is the unmistakable bridge between us. No matter which century we get to be here and the reasons we came and stayed, what a grand adventure, this state ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 #findingnevadawild

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Diaries of a backroader ❤️‍🔥 #findingnevadawild



…How many people do you think have made out with their dog on the back stoop of the Tom T. Kelly bottle house??? I hope it’s a lot 🫶🏻

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