Author: Dennis Cassinelli

   In a previous article, I told about the raid and destruction of Williams Station along the Carson River by a band of renegade Paiute Indians from the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation on May 6th, 1860. The Comstock Lode had...

  Preserving Traces of the Great Basin Indians has always been my best selling publication. This book is the story of the Cassinelli/Perino artifact collection. I grew up on a ranch on Glendale Road in Sparks, Nevada that...

  Like many people in western Nevada, I have a few choice pieces of antique yard art at my home to remind me of the rich, cultural heritage of our area. Some people have a weathered wagon wheel or perhaps a rusty old mine...

  The following is from a presentation I gave for the Nevada State Museum tour guides when the Fremont artifacts were on display at the museum several years ago.        One of my favorite characters in Nevada History is John C....