History
» History Tonopah: Then & Now
May/June 2013
Tonopah photographer Jim Galli has earned quite the reputation for connecting the past to the present via his black-and-white images. But these aren’t digital pictures converted with modern computer software—these are the real deal, taken with a circa 1910 Kodak Cirkut panoramic camera.
» History Pioneer Saloon
March/April 2013
In Goodsprings, the action is at the Pioneer Saloon, the last saloon standing—and continuously operating—from the burg’s glory days of the early 1900s. “At its peak in 1916 Goodsprings had 800 residents. Stores, restaurants, churches, a theater, and nine saloons lined Main Street. The Hotel Fayle, advertised as the ‘finest in the West,’ opened with great fanfare.”
» History The Quaints of DeQuille
January/February 2013
Goodman, who had employed Mark Twain and Dan DeQuille, said regretfully, “Isn’t it so singular that Mark Twain should live and Dan DeQuille fade out? If anyone had asked me in 1863 which was to be an immortal name, I should unhesitatingly have said Dan DeQuille.”
» History The Great Equalizer
November/December 2012
While cow thieves were an ever-present problem and called forth such extreme measures as group lynchings and the employment of professional man-hunters, a much more primal challenge faced the stock-growers of the late 19th-century West: extreme weather.
» History Nevada’s Lost City
September/October 2012
Nevada’s Lost City is both scientific and romantic. Buried beneath the sands of the Mojave Desert was information that archaeologists used to define the western-most settlement of the Ancestral Puebloans. The Lost City is archaeological proof that they lived and thrived in Southern Nevada.
» History Mazuma Wiped Out
July/August 2012
Just prior to 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, 1912, Ed Kalenbauch and Ellsworth Bennett watched a cluster of ominous thunderheads hover over Granite Peak from the door of Kalenbauch’s office at Seven Troughs Coalition Mining Company. They just so happened to comment on the storm’s potency when they saw a wall of water 10 feet high surge down Seven Troughs Canyon.
» History Nevada State Prison
May/June 2012
In 2011, Nevada’s government officials decided to shut down the prison, citing reports that claimed NSP was more expensive to operate than other facilities and that the prison needed structural upgrades that were too costly to justify. Now, the prison is emptied of its charges—what happens to NSP, only the future knows.
» History Ferris and His Big Wheel
March/April 2012
Born in 1859, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. came across the plains with his family in 1864 from Galesburg, Illinois and settled near Genoa. Ferris was drawn to the Carson River, and, on hot afternoons, he would climb on his pony and clop down to the water. Local lore maintains that it was the handiwork of William Cradlebaugh that drew Ferris to the riverside.
» History Mizpah Hotel
January/February 2012
If you were living in Tonopah in 1908, 1980, 1996, or August 2011, you likely share this in common—you took part in a grand-opening celebration of the Mizpah Hotel. But how can a hotel open four different times?
» History the six-week cure
November/December 2011
The cure was divorce and the scene a familiar one in Reno during the 1930s. In March 1931, the Nevada Legislature shocked the nation when it not only legalized gambling in the state, but reduced the residency requirement for divorce from three months to six weeks.
» 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.
» History sarah winnemucca: paiute princess
July/August 2011
Nevada may never have produced a more brilliant or complex woman than Sarah Winnemucca. Part saint, part sinner, part missionary, part camp follower, she was the epitome of the good-bad heroine.
» History wovoka
July/August 2011
Wovoka’s life spanned years of freedom and oppression for the Native American tribes of Nevada and the Western United States. He urged his people to live in peace in their new circumstances, but never abandoned his hope for a return to the old ways.
» History the sheepmen
May/June 2011
Dwindling down from a peak of more than a million sheep in 1910, Nevada’s sheep empires have vanished, and only a handful of outfits remain to tend less than 200,000 sheep on private land and the diminishing public domain.
» History kennecott copper corporation
March/April 2011
Kennecott Copper Corporation and Consolidated Coppermines Company, two famous names in Nevada’s mining register, have been identified with the Ely district for decades, mining ore from deep pits and producing blister copper in enormous volume.
» History potosi mine
January/February 2011
High up in the mountains, 35 miles southwest of Las Vegas, is found one of the places most significant to Nevada’s early history. This is the old Potosi Mine, the first lode mine ever worked in the state.
» History progressive nevada
November/December 2010
From the discovery of the Comstock Lode through the Great Depression, gambling in Nevada was a tug-of-war issue between individual liberties and Victorian values.
» History california trail tale
September/October 2010
In 1896, my great-great-great uncle, Oliver Goldsmith, published Overland in Forty-Nine, his recollections of traveling the California Trail, and gave hardbound copies to his family and friends. It is a remarkable account and tells of the hardships endured by equally remarkable people.
» History st. thomas
July/August 2010
A prolonged drought in the Southwest has communities contemplating a dry future and the potential consequences. But for one Nevada town it wasn’t the lack of water, but the opposite, which caused it to disappear more than 70 years ago. Today, Lake Mead has receded to the point that visitors now have an opportunity to see a town that was once submerged.
» History celebrating jack johnson
May/June 2010
On July 4, 1910, boxer Jack Johnson defeated former champion and white opponent James Jeffries in Reno. Although lesser known, Johnson’s triumph (and seven-year reign as champ) is as culturally important as Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a busy Alabama bus 45 years later.
