By Dennis Cassinelli Probably the greatest difficulty for the westward migration in America was crossing the high Sierra Nevada Mountains. Early on, California and Oregon became the destinations for emigrants seeking to settle and prosper. In the 1700s, Spanish settlers and missionaries came to California "around the horn" by sea. Others, choosing to make new homes for their … [Read more...] about Crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains
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How Johntown was named
By Dennis Cassinelli In an earlier article, I wrote the story of Johntown, Nevada’s first ghost town. A few days after the article appeared in the newspapers, I received an email from one of my faithful readers, Rich Vadenais, of Minden, Nevada. In my article, I had made the statement that "In my research, I have yet to find where the name Johntown came from. … [Read more...] about How Johntown was named
Memories of Goldfield, Nevada
By Dennis Cassinelli For several years, I worked as a Field Engineer in the 1970s for the Nevada Department of Transportation. At that time, my duties included traveling to highway construction project sites to prepare the final report of quantities used on the various projects. One of these was a project on U.S. 95 at Goldfield Summit south of town being … [Read more...] about Memories of Goldfield, Nevada
Eastern Nevada Pony Express Stations – Part 3
By Dennis Cassinelli In Part 2 of my series on Eastern Nevada Pony Express Stations, I described Schell Creek Station (4), Egan Canyon Station (5) and Butte Station (6). The numbers in parenthesis indicate the number of stations from the Utah State line. There will be one Pony Expess Station article each month. Mountain Springs Station (7) The Mountain Springs … [Read more...] about Eastern Nevada Pony Express Stations – Part 3
The Historic Nevada State Asylum Cemetery
By Dennis Cassinelli 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 long departed pioneers but a few markers of wood or stone. Unlike many of these historic cemeteries, the one at the old Nevada State Asylum did not have a single grave marker left to identify the graves of … [Read more...] about The Historic Nevada State Asylum Cemetery