Annie’s rebellious nature included an early marriage at 15, and then leavin’ her husband in Boston to run bootleg whiskey from Canada to Chicago. She worked her way West as a ranch cook in Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado before contractin’ tuberculosis. The sickness forced her to the hot, dry climate of the Shoshone Hot Springs area where Annie took up minin’, and discovered a lifestyle that was with her the rest of her life.
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Wild Horse Round Up In Nevada By Mitch Kumstein – The Dog That Blogs “It’s the end of another year, and I figured before I barreled into 2010, I would look back on some of the events that made 2009 the most memorable time of my life! It started off really rough. I was dumped
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The Misadventures of Mitch Kumstein The Dog Who Blogs What Happens in Vegas….Goes To Pahrump? This next story is a little off the beaten path for me. Ya see, my road trippin’ blogs normally center around Nevada’s history in the Wild West, ya know, cowboys, Indians, prospectors, mules, that kinda stuff. But some of this
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The Misadventures of Mitch Kumstein Series (The dog that blogs) Wovoka and the The Ghost Dance One August, I decided to take a little time off and road trip from Las Vegas ta the Black Rock desert of Northern Nevada, where every year on Labor Day weekend, they used to fire up the Burnin’ Man
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Now Where’d That Mule Go? The Misadventures of Mitch Kumstein (the dog who blogs) Did ya ever wonder how much that 1968 Camaro ya drove around and abused as a kid is worth today? Or why ya attached a rookie Henry Aaron card to yur rear spokes just ta hear that cool noise? Don’t we
Now Where’d That Mule Go? A Story About Shorty Harris. Read More »
The Misadventures of Mitch Kumstein Now Ya See It, Now Ya Don’t By Guest Blogger Mitch Kumstein (photos courtesy of the Mitch Kumstein 2009 Desert Collection) I’m still out here muckin’ around in the Southern Nevada desert, and think I just discovered a ghost town with the world’s shortest life. I’ve heard of boom and
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The Misadventures of Mitch Kumstein Valley of Fire State Park Guest Blogger Mitch Kumstein (a dog who blogs) Got called back to Coyote Springs for sum warranty work on the Road Warrior (amazin’ how much damage you can do by overloadin’ a golf cart & drivin’ it 500 miles to a Burnin’ Man Festival)… so
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The Travelin’ Misadventures of Mitch Kumstein What Happened to Hungry Johnny? Guest Blogger Mitch Kumstein (written from a dogs perspective) on Desert Road Trippin Headin’ out of my new digs at the El Portal Motel, and thinkin’ about pointin’ the 660 towards Rhyolite, a famous ghost town located about 5 miles southwest of Beatty. The
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Seeking Out the Desert Bighorn The Travelin’ Misadventures of Mitch Kumstein Guest Blogger on DesertRoadTrippin Desert Road Trippin’ would like to welcome guest blogger “Mitch Kumstein”, a dog who lives in the desert near Las Vegas, NV. He recently encountered a big herd of Bighorn Sheep and he was able to take some great photos
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