Further Reading
Other websites. Providing more in-depth, well-researched, specific, or accurate information on rural Nevada than we ever could.
Ghost towns, semi-ghost towns, mining camps, and historical sites of Nevada from 1850-1950. Contains historic newspaper clippings in a more readable format than a direct scan of the newspaper.
A broader collection of historical sites of Nevada. Includes information on California, Arizona, Utah, Florida, and Texas.
Another ghost towning website. Provides less information on each site than Forgotten Nevada or Nevada Expeditons.
Focusing on shrinking towns, ghost towns, post-industrial landscapes, and all sorts of unusual places. Posts about all 50 states, most notably to us California. Unfortunately inactive.
A blog by a minerals exploration geologist who also loves highways. Posts about the natural environment of the West, highways, travel. Inactive, sadly.
Not exclusive to rural Nevada, Nevada, or the United States. Unusual destinations, crowdsourced and listed for the traveller who is so inclined.
Sociopolitical conditions of rural Nevada. What is now, as opposed to what once was.
Nevada's wild lands and a nonprofit dedicated to protecting them. Information about what lives out there, how to get there, what to do once you are there, and which Indigenous groups this land rightfully belongs to.
Books! Words put to paper as opposed to pixel. Some of these are out of print, but all are avaliable at what the authors consider a reasonable price.
A book about the counties in the United States with a population under 2 people per square mile as of 1990, and those people who live there by choice or circumstance.