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.
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 Kestrel Caller
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.
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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.
When in doubt, don’t 🌚 #insagebrushwetrust
Thought about it 🙃🧻 #insagebrushwetrust
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
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
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
Just call me the wild burro whisperer 🌚 #teamalkali
No service, no problems ❤️🔥 #getoutside
Mojave prowlin’ 🔥 #findingnevadawild
You beautiful savage ❤️🔥 #InSagebrushWeTrust
And we *will* fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, billion stars 🌚 #findingnevadawild
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
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
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
Diaries of a backroader ❤️🔥 #findingnevadawild
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…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 🫶🏻
Thermal divinity ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 #hotwater
What a life, this dog ❤️🔥 #teamalkali
The desire to be truly free, and answer to no one. How far would you go to protect it? If you’re Claude Dallas, I guess that means using both barrels.
Roaming the Owyhee and Paradise Valley in the ruggedly remote mountains of north central Nevada, Dallas was the type of guy who could be on the minds and mouths of everyone, but was nowhere to be found and in the end, was perhaps only caught because he wanted to be. A lot of Westerners believe if you give a boy a gun you’re making a man. But in Dallas’ case, where did dozens of guns, thousands of rounds of ammunition, countless illegal traps, pelts and hundreds of pounds of poached meat, and pure disdain and defiance for the law actually get him? One of the more elaborate manhunts in United States History, being on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List, and the subject of the longest and one of the most confusing court cases in Idaho history—that’s what.
This one is a long, complicated, and sensitive true story that still divides many Nevadans. So, pour yourself a Picon, and decide where on this sensational spectrum you land. It’s the Legend of Claude Dallas: the most infamous nomadic poacher and remorseless mountain man Nevada’s ever seen. Read (or listen via Spotify) over on my site w/link in bio 🔥 #legendsoflostnevada
📸 : @mortimorecreative thanks for the collab of my dreams. Your photography and decades-long Nevada desert rambles breathed immeasurable life into this project. For everyone else, follow Scott’s work—you’ll be glad you did.
Nevada backroads at its very best 🔥🔥🔥
With more ghost towns and abandoned mine features than any other state, there sure is a lot of cool structures, tunnels, and homes to see out out there. But whats kept me coming back has always been the people—the people who said yes to the adventure of an unknown West, and in a lot of cases, lived and died to experience it. I wonder what we would’ve had in common, Mary and I, and what it would’ve been like to be a teenager tearing it up in the purest silver boom in Nevada. ✨ #nevadabackroads
If it hurts it’s probably worth it, or whatever 🥴 #nevadabackroads
Into the glow we go ⚡️🚨 #wheelestate
