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Here’s what people are uncovering in Elko Daily Free Press newspaper archives. Search our historical issues for obituaries, marriage and birth…
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I am sure that readers of my columns have noticed that I have written articles about several towns in Nevada. Unlike some writers, I usually d…
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Christopher “Kit” Carson (1809-1868) was an American frontiersman, trapper, soldier and Indian agent who made important contributions to the w…
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An arsenal is described as “A place where weapons and military equipment are stored or made.” Throughout the history of the Hawthorne U.S. Nav…
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Being from a ranching family I can relate to cowboys and ranchers, especially in the area of Winnemucca, Nevada. I have noticed that in recent…
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For 19 years, I worked for the Nevada Department of Transportation. During that time I made numerous trips to Elko County Nevada while working…
For several years, I worked as a Field Engineer in the 1970s for the Nevada Department of Transportation. At that time, my duties included tra…
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Many of Nevada’s old cemeteries have long existed in a state of neglect and abandonment. Many of them have little to mark the graves of the lo…
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In the days when the Virginia and Truckee Railroad traveled between Virginia City and Carson City, there was one important station along the w…
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…
