Virginia City, Nevada isn’t playing dress-up for tourists—it’s the genuine article, a silver mining boomtown that refuses to fade into the history books. You’ve probably visited places that claim to ...

Standing proudly on B Street, Piper’s Opera House represents the sophisticated side of Virginia City’s boomtown days. This isn’t some modest frontier theater—it was one of the most acclaimed ...

Drying conditions and increasing wildland fire dangers have prompted the Mother Lode Field Office of the federal Bureau of ...

Reflections from a road trip to Mono Lake and the Owens Valley, the northernmost reaches of Southern California.