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Narrated by The Drifter 414 km · about 236 min · 35 stories

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.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Fallon, Nevada

    The Oats Park Grammar School

  2. 2
    Fallon, Nevada

    The Riders of the High Desert Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  3. 3
    Fallon, Nevada

    The Riders of the High Desert Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  4. 4
    Fallon, Nevada

    The Riders of the High Desert Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  5. 5
    Fallon, Nevada

    Naval Aviation Training in Fallon

  6. 6
    Fallon, Nevada

    The Conflict at Pyramid Lake Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  7. 7
    Fallon, Nevada

    The Conflict at Pyramid Lake Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  8. 8
    Fallon, Nevada

    The Conflict at Pyramid Lake Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  9. 9
    Fallon, Nevada

    The Desatoya Range Geological Divide

  10. 10
    Fallon, Nevada

    The Tragedy of Cold Springs

  11. 11
    Fallon, Nevada

    The Reese River Mining Boom

  12. 12
    Austin, Nevada

    The Flour Sack Fundraiser

  13. 13
    Austin, Nevada

    The Brief Rise of Jacobsville

  14. 14
    Austin, Nevada

    The Summer Home of Anson Stokes

  15. 15
    Austin, Nevada

    The Diverse Austin Cemetery

  16. 16
    Austin, Nevada

    The Ancient Art of Hickison

  17. 17
    Austin, Nevada

    The Great Basin Endorheic Nature

  18. 18
    Eureka, Nevada

    The Eureka Mining District

  19. 19
    Eureka, Nevada

    The Daily Life of a Prospector

  20. 20
    Eureka, Nevada

    The Eureka and Palisade Railroad

  21. 21
    Eureka, Nevada

    The Tectonic Stretching of Nevada

  22. 22
    Eureka, Nevada

    The Ward Charcoal Ovens

  23. 23
    Eureka, Nevada

    The White Pine Mining Rush

  24. 24
    Eureka, Nevada

    The Shoshone and the Ruby Valley Treaty

  25. 25
    Ely, Nevada

    The Great Basin’s Eastern Valleys Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  26. 26
    Lund, Nevada

    The Great Basin’s Eastern Valleys Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  27. 27
    Ely, Nevada

    The Great Basin’s Eastern Valleys Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  28. 28
    Lund, Nevada

    The White Pine County Courthouse

  29. 29
    Lund, Nevada

    The Nevada Northern Railway

  30. 30
    Ruth, Nevada

    The Shifting Ground of Ruth

  31. 31
    Ely, Nevada

    Ely's Copper Mining Revival

  32. 32
    Ely, Nevada

    The Crest of the Egan Range

  33. 33
    Ely, Nevada

    The McGill Smelter Operations

  34. 34
    Ely, Nevada

    Ely's Fire and Ice Festival

  35. 35
    Ely, Nevada

    The Ely Roots of Pat Nixon

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Where the stories come from

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.