Here’s what people are uncovering in Elko Daily Free Press newspaper archives. Search our historical issues for obituaries, marriage and birth…
I want to thank all my readers who recently bought my book, “Preserving Traces of the Great Basin Indians.” These have been offered at $ 10 ea…
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Here are some old photos of people from Elko Daily Free Press files. See how many of them you recognize.
For Christmas 2018, I bought 23andMe kits for my family to map the ethnic and geographic origins of our DNA. As a Basque, I never doubted, of …
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ELKO — The Mining History Association has postponed its annual conference, which had been planned for Elko.
Horace Greeley hated the Humboldt River. He passed through our area in 1859 while writing a series of dispatches for an eastern newspaper. You…
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Residents of Elko County know the wildlife that thrive in its high, cold desert ecosystem. Our most exotic predator is the mountain lion, foll…
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The Pathfinder, John C. Fremont, and others led the way to finding routes to California in 1844-45. In 1846-47, The Donner Party spent the ter…
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Phileas Fogg, that intrepid adventurer from the imagination of Jules Verne, accepted a bet to go around the world in 80 days. He hopscotched t…
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About 10 miles southeast of Fallon, on US Highway 50, there is a place known as the Grimes Point Archaeological Area. Over the last 10,000-21,…
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ELKO – The language of the cowboy is the engine that drives the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering each year.
Having visited many of Nevada’s State Parks, I want to share with my readers information about some of them. People often wonder where to visi…
ELKO – Oregon jeweler Nevada (Watt) Miller truly “sings” in silver. She started practicing her art form while she was a junior in high school.
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