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The Terrain, Culture, and People of the Most Mysterious State in the West
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History and Mystery are Alive in Nevada’s Sagebrush Ocean
Legends of Lost Nevada
Legends of Lost Nevada
Nevada’s a mysterious place. With history and mystery as far and wide as the Great Basin, 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.
This massive acreage gets skipped over a lot, at least by the average person. But to anthropologists, chemists, theologists, spiritualists, billionaire hoteliers, astronauts, Hollywood actors,…
True mystery and real isolation. And with pronghorn antelope, insanely dark skies, flowing hot creeks, and massive black fire opals as your compass, it’s the…
Becoming man’s best friend alongside this country’s first people, it’s the story of original friendship, and that of Danger Cave: one of the oldest canine…
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.
I’d been thinking about this shot setup for a long, long time, and everything just sort of clicked into place last summer when we were passing through the wilds of eastern Nevada. It wasn’t the first, second, or even third most important capture I was after on that trip, but turned out to be the best one we’ve made—maybe ever. Now it’s the back cover of my book. Can’t wait to hold it in my hands, and also put it in yours very, very soon 🔥🔥🔥#InSagebrushWeTrust…
Relieved to say my shop is restocked and ready for your wandering eye! Starting now, look for plenty of fresh eye-tricking stones I’ve managed to have on my bench for months, like this Royston dreamboat. Straight out of Nevada’s turquoise belt, everything in my shop is mined and made my Nevadans, which will forever and always be my favorite part of Song Dog ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥#InSagebrushWeTrust…
Been going through some pretty great doors lately 🌚
It feels like its been a minute since l’ve gotten the chance to make a post on here, sit down at my silver bench, put together a Legends of Lost Nevada, or better yet, actually get out into the Great Basin. That’s for good reason: I’ve been working with my publisher on finalizing my book edits and design, and as of this week, SHE’S OFF TO THE PRINTER! It drops in late August, and for now, Finding Nevada Wild is available for preorder on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million, and Target.
Cannot wait to share this project with you, and in the meantime, get back to making more stories, photos, and silver. 🪶 #InSagebrushWeTrust…
I’ve been staring at this beauty for a week straight and still can’t wrap my mind around it. Thanks @gomezsigns for making me the coolest thing I’ll ever own 🌚 #insagebrushwetrust…
A dusty purple dream that makes me just about as happy as telling the many Legends of Lost Nevada—especially that hot springs geyser 🌚
Unisex sizes are now up for grabs on my site, along with a full restock of the Song Dog crewnecks if you’ve been waiting for one! There are a couple tees left somewhere in there too. Thanks for always making me look cool, Travis. ❤️🔥 #insagebrushwetrust #legendsoflostnevada…
One year ago from today we got my overnighted publishing contract in the mail, and decided to sign it in a place that means something to all three of us: the Black Rock. 🌚
It would’ve been my 10 year anniversary to the day of my old job. And you know, signing a contract for the publishing rights of my own, and a LOT of hard work was so much better than that. In fact, we’re all still smiling. ❤️🔥🍀 #insagebrushwetrust #findingnevadawild…
We used our tailgate as a tripod to shoot this photo that night. The only noise crackling from our campfire, our own heartbeats, and a pair of Coopers Hawks tucking in their chicks for the night, it was unbelievably silent here which gave us a lot of time to think about the thousands of people that surely built a fire in the same exact spot throughout the years.
That was after we spent four days hiking around, bumping over gravel roads, and basically being completely entranced by thousands of signs of ancient human histories left throughout the missing strata from the Grand Canyon and one of the most dangerous and beautiful national monuments in Nevada borders. It’s a stunning place in every respect, and even though we got to be here without the distraction of anyone else, it belongs to everyone and lies squarely on public lands.
Like most Nevada recreationalists, I strongly feel public lands are not just important, but at the center of the Nevada experience. With a higher percentage of public lands acreage than any other state, your ability to wonder what’s over there down that valley then actually go find out is possible here, and not the case in most other places. The privatization of public lands is the biggest thing we have to lose, and while I really try to stay away from anything political on here, I simply cannot fathom the Nevada so many of us know without freely accessing its most special and surprising places—like this one.
Despite which box you checked on your ballot, I do know Nevada Public Lands is what unites so many of us. I enthusiastically encourage anyone else who loves this state as much as I do to call, write, and do whatever else to voice that admiration of Nevada’s most lasting and special quality. Don’t forget to use your voice—it’s a powerful thing. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 #insagebrushwetrust #publiclands…
The art of survival never really ends—not in the Big Empty it doesn’t. The more I think about it, it’s usually somewhere out there where they find each other 🌚 #insagebrushwetrust…
This dog has given me more than just about everyone else. We took this picture I the day I signed my publishing contract last year. He knew. And now he gets to be immortalized, being along for all those truck rides, well, forever.
Thank you for being the most loyal, loving bear to me, Elks. I can’t imagine life, or being in the wilds of Nevada without you. Happy 8th birthday!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 #ElkoBear…
Introducing Finding Nevada Wild: The Terrain, Culture, and People of the Most Mysterious State in the West. 🌚
Can you believe it??? After a LOT of meltdowns, more rewrites than I can wrap my mind around, and a wily ass publishing world, we’re so freakin’ excited to announce this project. It’s about our lives exploring Nevada’s ultra rurals—Jonny, Elko, and I—and filled with hundreds of color photos, it’s equally at home on your coffee table as it is on the dashboard as you bump down Nevada’s backcountry roads. Shipping summer 2025, preorder your own copy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books-A-Million starting now.
…and be sure to stick with me on more updates to come. This is going to be an exciting lap around the sun ❤️🔥 #insagebrushwetrust…
I can say with certainty there’s nobody I’d rather get sucker punched by the desert with than you. Happy Valentine’s Day, you maniac ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 #insagebrushwetrust…
Knowing something is there that you can’t see right away really has become the center of my Nevada intrigue. And the more I think about it, there really is no truer emblem of those sentiments than Nevada Caves. 🌚
And from trying to figure out the largest cluster of natural caves in Nevada from the speleological pros, to connecting with the same guys who wiggled into that waterlogged cave back in ‘82, to realizing the force of this ancient superbeast twice the size of a grizzly bear, to unpacking the Pleistocene timeline and Nevada’s prehistory with paleontologists responsible for excavating the cave then safeguarding its ten thousand year old remains, I realized there are lots of layers to this story. Just about as many as the sediment in which these remarkable ancient fossils were discovered, in fact.
It’s the latest Legend of Lost Nevada, about Lily the Giant Short-Faced Cave Bear, and the team of people who were courageous enough to find, protect, and preserve her place in a world that always seems to be changing. Find it on my site, or whatever streaming service you’re listening to. ✨ #insagebrushwetrust…
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…
I hereby swear on Nevada backroads to never overload your inboxes, ever. Instead, rely upon Song Dog Silver updates, fresh Legends of Lost Nevada, and sometimes a rare combo of the two.
Do you Know of a Legend of Lost Nevada?
With history and mystery as far and wide as the Sagebrush Sea, there are plenty of Lost Legends out there. Got a story idea you think I should write about?
