Past Issue
» Great Nevada Picture Hunt 2011 great nevada picture hunt
September/October 2011
Following the theme of our 75th-anniversary year—Nevada’s territories—our 2011 photo contest is a celebration of the best images from the state’s six tourism territories: Las Vegas Territory, Pony Express Territory, Cowboy Country, Indian Territory, Nevada Silver Trails, and Reno-Tahoe Territory. Also new this year is a “Then & Now” category.
» Feature nevada silver trails towns
September/October 2011
From tent cities that grew to mining metropolises overnight and faded to obscurity almost as quickly, to a bedroom community that has grown to become a tourist destination in its own right, the once-mineral-rich Silver Trails towns still hold plenty of treasures.
» Wide Open parks and recreation
September/October 2011
Nevada’s largest territory, the vast south-central swath of land known as Silver Trails, is a symphony in isolated grandeur—from the flood-carved walls of Cathedral Gorge State Park and the daunting expanses of parched Death Valley National Park to picturesque wetlands in Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge and the ruins of a once-mighty silver industry at Belmont Courthouse State Historic Park.
» Wide Open park pentathlon
September/October 2011
Five of Nevada’s finest state parks—Beaver Dam State Park, Cathedral Gorge State Park, Echo Canyon State Park, Kershaw-Ryan State Park, and Spring Valley State Park—make Lincoln County a must-visit destination.
» Wide Open off the beaten path
September/October 2011
Nevada Silver Trails has long been an arena for inspiring travels. Though staking a mining claim of your own might be a little difficult these days, many treasures await prepared modern adventurers in Nevada’s largest and most geographically diverse territory.
» History gold finds make nevada history
September/October 2011
In the year 1900 a recalcitrant burro—affectionately dubbed the desert canary because of his braying propensities—which had strayed away from a prospector’s campsite during the night, was the indirect cause of another flash of gold excitement in the Tonopah area, which followed the decline of the Comstock by almost 20 years.
» Events Spotlight nevada silver trails by the dozen
September/October 2011
From Pahrump to Panaca, Nevada Silver Trails offers myriad events to appease all Nevada walks of life. Use this story to plan a couple—perhaps 12—trips to south-central Nevada.
» Shows Spotlight jeanne dini cultural center
September/October 2011
Jeanne Dini died in 1994, but before that she was instrumental in restoring the building that now bears her name in golden letters. In the early 1980s, Dini, her husband, Joe, and others in the community couldn’t accept the disheveled condition of the former Yerington Grammar School No. 9 that had been boarded up since 1978.
» Shows Spotlight amargosa opera house
September/October 2011
Talk about the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel, and you have to talk about Marta Becket. In fact, the attraction’s official website reads, “Marta Becket’s Amargosa Opera House and Hotel.” Becket stumbled upon the facility—part of an old Pacific Coast Borax Company town near the southern Nevada border—nearly 45 years ago.
» People
Ferminia Sarras
From the land of poets to the land of promise, Ferminia Sarras arrived in San Francisco in 1876. Descended from a prominent conquistador family, perhaps born to privilege and wealth, she may have been prompted by circumstances at home—lost love, fading family fortunes—or been summoned to California by a husband or other relation scouting the way to a better life.
She came at the age of 36, a mature woman with four daughters. Whatever else she might have been, she was already a survivor. In 1880, another calling drew her to the treeless, windswept mining frontier of the Candelaria Hills in Mineral County.
