2019 loneliest road – part 1: big picture of the Great Basin
When we planned this 5-month trip, Barney heard about Hwy. 50 across Nevada that was called “The Loneliest Road in America” by Life magazine in July 1986. That sounded like...
2019 loneliest road – part 2, Fallon: wagon trains
We started talking about wagon trains when we were in the Carson Valley area in the previous “Other Side” posts, especially in Genoa. At Fallon, our first stop along Hwy....
2019 loneliest road – part 3, Fallon: life on the trail
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...
2019 loneliest road – part 4, Fallon: Pony Express and the Sand Springs Station
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...
2019 loneliest road – part 5, Fallon: a town transformed
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...