Turns out Elko, NV is interesting.
TourPods has 7 narrated audio stories about Elko — the hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore of its streets, told like a podcast about wherever you're standing.
Pioneer Building
Where Elko Kept the Lights On
A downtown hotel that carried Elko from railroad days into public memory.
Ruby Mountains
When Garnets Fooled the Ruby Mountains
A mountain range got its glittering name from a very human mistake.
Western Folklife Center
Where Cowboy Poetry Found a Home in Elko
An old downtown building became a living home for western tradition.
Ruby Valley
A Treaty, a Passage, and an Argument That Never Ended
How one Civil War-era treaty became a lasting Western Shoshone land-rights battleground.
Ruby Mountains
When the Rubies Entered Federal Care
How a 1910 federal move changed the future of Nevada’s alpine range.
Elko
The Sisters Who Wouldn’t Yield the Range
How two Western Shoshone sisters turned a Nevada land fight into a global rights case.
Elko
When a Depot Became Elko
A railroad stop that turned into a Nevada city almost overnight.
Hear every Elko story, hands-free.
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