Nevada Centennial Marker No. 12...
Often Steve will take the road less traveled and we then make new discoveries. We have passed this marker and have never paused for the history lesson it provides... until today!
Thousands of emigrants moved over the old road skirting the west bank of the Carson River as they prepared to cross the Sierra, feeding their livestock on grass cut along the river. At Genoa; at Mottsville, settled in 1852; and at Sheridan, settled by Moses Job about ’54; emigrants stopped to enjoy produce of the region’s first gardens. Pony Express riders used this route in 1860, switching a year later to the shorter Daggett Trail, now Kingsbury Grade.
“Life is a journey
with almost limitless detours.”
― Ken Poirot
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