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Riding the Rails to Virginia City Nevada

Our latest Nevada adventure started in the northern city of Reno. From there we headed for the Wild-West town of Virginia City on the historic V...
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Museums of the Death Valley National Park Area

Museums dot the surrounding area of Death Valley National Park. Many of the small towns that were once booming mining towns have kept the spirit of...
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Gold Rush and Flying Wild Alaska hits on Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel reported that the November 4, 2011, episodes of "Gold Rush" and Flying Wild Alaska" were hits, in a November 7,...
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Why boys thar's gold in them thar hills!

Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia: Part FiveTourists are told in Helen and Dahlonega, GA that after living in the Nacoochee Valley for thousands of...
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Pandering with playboys of the past

The Old Washoe Club is living proof that discretion is the single most important driving force behind any den of iniquity’s success. The...
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Dying cathouse roused frontier’s frisky side

The Rockies’ fruits of the earth were bountiful, indeed. Cripple Creek’s stock was on the rise: its veins bled gold. Local merchants...
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Did prospectors really dig dirty money?

Let your mind wander back to a long-ago age when the Rocky Mountain Way was first introduced to sheer intensity. Imagine the rugged alpine terrain...
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Fashion-forward mountain men called Cripple Creek home

One cannot truly understand precisely why the dusty rough and tumble town of Cripple Creek matters without grasping three driving forces: money,...
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“Wheelbarrow Emigrant” knew how to park it

No one could have predicted the infamy awaiting James Brookmire when he left his Pennsylvania home in 1850. The Ulster Scot was joining a 44,000-...
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