9 small Nevada towns worth checking out — PHOTOS ... Desert bighorn sheep graze atop a grassy knoll overlooking Lake Mead at Henenway Park in Boulder City, Thursday Aug. 19, 2010.

A desert town between Reno and Las Vegas was a silver mining town that retains its unique charms a century later, now a ...

In the small town of Rachel, which is only home to about 50 people, tension over uncertainties in the days ahead appeared to boil over. The small town of Rachel, Nev. lies about 140 miles north of ...

Small desert town will remember Harry Reid even after he moves on. ... “We’re just a small town in the middle of the Nevada desert,” said Overy, 77, who moved here three decades ago.

Tiny Nevada desert town sells for $8M ... A small single-engine plane is parked just outside the Cal-Nev-Ari Casino on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in Cal-Nev-Ari.

Small town's heart found in a desert cafe. By April Orcutt Updated Aug 1, 2014 9:56 a.m. Highway 50 in Nevada is known as the "Loneliest Road in America". This is near Middlegate.

And we are. Nevada wouldn’t exist as we know it today without the small towns sprinkled across the state that were born out of a mining boom or a railroad station and left to be redefined by the ...

Nevada’s Ghost Towns. Season 6 Episode 7 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Explore Belmont and Tonopah’s mining history, ruins, and hot springs on a starry desert adventure.

While most Nevada mining camps owed their existence to the quest to find gold and silver, the southeastern Nevada town of Carrara was different. Its founders discovered marble. In 1904, miners — who ...