Fallon’s local museum, Churchill County Museum, had some wonderful displays of the area. In this post we’ll look at life on trail for the emigrants. We’ll look at the wagons...

As the emigrants in the west were getting settled into their new homes and jobs, they wanted to stay in touch with family and friends back home. Instead of waiting...

You know how we described the end of the 40-Mile Desert that the emigrants endured as they walked to the California gold fields? It ended at Ragtown Crossing on the...

Now that we know about the changes that came to Fallon around the turn of the 20th century, let’s look at some of the buildings on Maine Street (not Main...

East of Fallon on Hwy. 50, we stopped at a couple of interesting places and saw a great message. First was Grimes Point Archeological Area, one of the largest and...