Along the East Walker River, Nevada: An Historical Perspective

Along the East Walker River, Nevada follows the history of the places and people who settled along this desert waterway in the earliest years of the State of Nevada. Learn about the people who inhabited these once wild lands, beginning at the Elbow Ranch at the big bend in the river, where "Elbow Joe" Schreck ran a way station, and travelling north and down river to the present-day Santa Margarita Ranch, south of Yerington, where the family of Utah pioneer John Wheeler once ranched. These were the farms and ranches which supplied and fed the miners in Nevada's early day mining camps.