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Twelve Days Across the West
Rob McGregor
This is a travel story about a motorcycle trip across the American West – beginning in San Francisco and ending in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. We followed highways 50 and 40, which parallel the old Pony Express route from Missouri to California. It was a chance to see parts of Northern Nevada, Utah and Western Colorado that we had never seen before, and at the same time visit some of the museums and historical places that capture the life and times of the settlers of the 1860s and 1870s. Most came to Nevada during the silver boom, and a trip across the Northern part of the state make one appreciate the power that the lure of instant wealth has on the human imagination. At the end of the trip I would have an impression that a similar land boom today is drawing people to the mountains for entirely different reasons.
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