Legends of Lost Nevada
history and Mystery Are Alive in the Most Misunderstood State in West
From multi-generational games of telephone surrounding the last big bonanza nobody could ever really figure out, to ancient caves, hot spring geysers, lasting and disappearing highway systems, petroglyphs and fossils, and plenty of stories about Nevadans, the landscape, and where their legacies meet in Nevada, these stories are as far and wide as the Sagebrush Sea.
I hope you’ll dig these Legends from Lost Nevada as much as I have learning them. I still can’t quite figure some of these stories (and locations) out. I’ll never stop trying.
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Lily the Giant and the Quest of Her Keepers
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…
In Defense of Freedom: Nomadic Poacher and Remorseless Mountain Man Claude Dallas
A long, complicated, and sensitive true story that still divides many Nevadans, it’s the story of one of the longest, and most confusing court cases…
The Flying M Ranch: Where the Hill of 1,000 Tombs, True Adventure, and Safeguarded Isolation Meet
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,…
A Wide & Lonely Highland Desert: Josie Pearl, the Roebling Opal, & the Last Free Antelope
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…
Land of A Thousand (Steamy) Thrills: Nevada’s Lost Hot Spring Geysers
To know something is there even though you can’t see it right away is my most favorite thing about Nevada, and proves true with all…
The American Indian Dog, Danger Cave, and Realizing Some of the Oldest Canine Bones Ever Found
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…
The Life & Lore of Jack Longstreet: Where Truth and Myth Know No Difference
To live life in a secret hideaway locked deep inside a faraway Nevada canyon. It’s the ultimate dream, at least for me, but it was…
Stolen Nevada: The Great & Abominable Theft of A Name
Nevada, and all that snowcapped Spanish name represents sure is a lovely thing. But was the Silver State really the very first to adapt it?…
The Lost Arrowhead Trail: Nevada’s First Scenic Byway & All-Weather Route
I’ve spent a lot of hours this past year thinking about how people have moved across the West throughout time. One of the first scenic…
The Legend of Heinie Miller: Goldfield’s Blind Miner
A grumbly old gold miner loses his eyesight in a prospecting explosion, then continues to look for gold 120 feet underground, feeling his way to…
Ronald Bristlewolf and the Sinister Histories of Pinto Hot Springs
Here’s something you won’t read about on the tourism websites: being afraid of the desert. And we’ve got folks like ol’ Bristlewolf to thank for…
The Nevada Test Site, Area 51 & Accepting Aliens are Definitely Real
Is there a better candidate for dark histories and mysteries than the Nevada Test Site and Area 51? Maybe the most conspiracy-fueled location on planet…
