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The Loneliest Road across the Nevada basins: the Pony Express riders, the Pyramid Lake war, the Reese River mining boom, Austin's flour-sack fundraiser that built a fortune, the Ward charcoal ovens, and the Nevada Northern Railway — still running on its original everything.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.