So, it looks like I am mere minutes out of Elko NV. I am wondering if I should call the concierge, or just take my chances at the ticket counter for tbe big shows…
It is a little weird to go into a Flying J for my cup of joe and walk by the rows of slot machines. Toto, we are definitely not in Kansas any more.
I’m pretty sure that Elko is going to be the end of the day’s drive, so hopefully I will bring you a full post when I am ensconced in some luxury establishment. Yea. Right. But just in case we don’t have internet later, it has been a good – long day. Thanks everyone for checking up on me and Ranger Rick – Special shoutouts to: Booty, Nosmo, Beedica, Brenda…I be gettin back wif ya
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Elko was first inhabited in 1868, when it was at the East end of the railroad tracks built by Central Pacific Railroad (the portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad built from California to Utah). When the railroad crews moved on, Elko remained, serving as a ranch and mining freight and supply center.
Elko is said to have been named by Charles Crocker, a superintendent of the Central Pacific Railroad. He was especially fond of animal names and added “o” to Elk. There is no definitive evidence of this naming history, but it has become the widely accepted version.
The first Elko County Courthouse was built in 1869.
In 1925, the Kelly Act (also known as the Airmail Act of 1925) authorized the U.S. Post Office to contract with private airlines for the feeder routes that fed the main transcontinental route. The first commercial airmail flight in the United States was on the 487 mile Airmail Route #5 from Pasco, Washington to Elko, Nevada on April 6, 1926. The flight was piloted by Leon D. Cuddeback and included a brief stop in Boise, Idaho to pick up more mail.