https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/national-cowboy-poetry-gathering-elko-nevada-dust-devils/
If you have some free time this morning, you might enjoy these articles about Jay Nordlinger’s visit to Elko, Nevada. You might even have relatives there!
This link is part 4, and it has links to 1-3 at the top.
I have relatives all over the West, and a few east of the Mississippi. Its what happens when one of your Great-Grandads has a wife in Canada and one in Mexico. I think that’s why genealogy is so important here: No one wants to marry a relative so they share genealogies before they pop the question. ;o]
Elko, NV..
Just up the road a piece from where my Father was born - considering that ‘up the road a piece’ in NV is still a rather long ways..
All that’s left of the town he was born in are a couple of uninhabitable shacks and a lot of abandoned mine shafts..