Thanksgiving Reflections
Thanksgiving is the most American of all holidays. Now highly commercialized, the real meaning of...
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Category: History
Nevada’s Central Pacific Railroad
The completion of the Nevada portion of the Central Pacific Railroad was celebrated with with the...
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Sutro Tunnel Compared to Carlin Tunnels
Carlin Tunnels Sutro Tunnel In my long career at NDOT, I was involved with one of the largest...
Read More History: Whiskey Played a Big Part
The mountain mining town of Pioche, Nevada, was one of the toughest places in all of the old west....
Read More Nevada’s Contribution to the Civil War
No sooner had the Pyramid Lake Indian Wars ended and fear of attack subsided in the Nevada...
Read More The History of Nevada Day
It happens every year at this time, or at least it has for a long while. Nevada Day. And it’s a...
Read More Eureka’s First Football State Title
The success of the Vandal’s football program last year, making it to the state semifinals before...
Read More County History: The Typewriter
Do you use a typewriter? More likely in our day you use a computer, be it a laptop, desktop, or...
Read More John Charles Fremont, The Pathfinder
The following is from a presentation I gave for the Nevada State Museum tour guides when the...
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North America’s Oldest Petroglyphs are at Winnemucca Lake
A few years ago, I attended a program by Eugene Hattori, at the Nevada State Museum about the...
Read More 50th Anniversary of the First Moon Landing this Week
Do you recall where you were when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong took that...
Read More History: Baseball in Eureka
1900 – 1910 was a bully time in American sport, as President Theodore Roosevelt might have...
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