The first time I heard of “The Ox-Bow Incident,” I was perhaps 13 years-old. One of my cousins had to do a report for a high school English class and had the “Cliff Notes,” on the book. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I actually saw the movie starting Henry Fonda and Harry…

For years I have been working to be the best “Silent Leader,” possible. A ‘silent leader’ is someone who acts in such a way, others might follow their example. This can be anyone from a CEO if a Fortune 500 Company to the person cleaning the restrooms and everyone in between. Much of it is…

A coroner has officially ruled that a dingo took and ate Azaria Chamberlain and that her mother had nothing to do with the infant’s death. Azaria, a nine-week-old baby girl from Australia, lost her life in a dingo attack in August 1980, and her body never recovered. Just 20 years old at the time, I…

Three weeks ago I decided to clean out some of my news notes I’d collected from work. I had nearly one-hundred pieces of paper regarding the disappearance of Steve Fossett. In order to do this, I spent the day copying and transcribing these notes and such — creating a massive computer database file. By the time…

Virginia City’s beginning is described by a Dr. Pierson in a letter to the Carson Tribune, dated August 1879: “I visited the spot known as Virginia and found not a house, but two tents in the ground. One was owned by John L. Blackburn who died by an assassin’s knife. I saw the first mine…

She knew she wasn’t supposed to have the thing – let alone have it in her bedroom. Bette’s father had forbidden it and now she was sitting on the couch listening to him lecture on the evils of the Ouija Board. “But its jus’ harmless game board,” Bette protested. Her father either didn’t hear her…

Beijing, China based Xinyuan Real Estate Co. Ltd. purchased a portfolio of 325 finished lots and 185 acres of raw land across northern Nevada for $7.4 million, according to Lou Berrego of West Haven Development Group. The properties, which had been owned by Wells Fargo Bank, extend from Wingfield Springs to Washoe Valley to Gardnerville,…

All that was missing was a passable road through the area, so Hanson ordered one to be cut. A survey was made of the coast from the Klamath to Crescent City as 1855 was nearing its end.  Building a road in rugged and steep terrain had its trouble, but not as many as the difficulties…

The Glass Pool Inn was a two-story motel at the southernmost end of the Las Vegas Strip. It’s most striking feature was its kidney-shaped, 54,000-gallon above-ground swimming pool with seven portholes that allowed passers-by to see swimmers underwater. About the only structure on the desert when it was built in 1952, the Glass Pool Inn was a like…

It was a night for which I couldn’t have been prouder. I witnessed my son, Kyle walk across the stage and receive his high school diploma. It might seem like a simple piece of paper to some, by to Kyle, I sure it feels like the achievement of a life-time. That’s because of all the…