Along alpine lakes and cliffs, past the bristlecone pines and herds of pronghorn antelope, across the old Pony Express trail, Nevada resident and author Bob Sumner shares his favorite scenic hikes to the highest mountain summit in each of Nevada’s 16 counties and Carson City.

Hiking Nevada’s County High Points

“It’s hot! Take a look a this gem of a book and begin planning at least a year’s worth of day or weekend trips in and around Nevada. I can guarantee you’ll be pleasantly surprised.”

Nancy Gott, freelance writer/adjunct professor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Out From Las Vegas

This is the classic book about fabulous Death Valley mining booms, of men and women who braved some of the most remote, wild and desolate country east of Yosemite in the Sierra Nevada to find gold and other precious minerals.

Death Valley to Yosemite

In 1944 US Camera published the book Born Free and Equal, a collection of photographs by Ansel Adams of Americans interned at Manzanar War Relocation Center. Within two months, every copy of the book disappeared from store shelves. In 2002, Spotted Dog Press reissued a hardcover edition of Ansel Adams’ once controversial book.

Born Free and Equal
Mary De Decker

Mary De Decker

Years ago, Walt Wheelock, founder of La Siesta Press in Glendale, California, handed me a tattered olive green box with the letters “MES” hand-printed in black ink on one side. Inside were the original manuscript and photographs for the book Mines of the Eastern Sierra written by Mary DeDecker, past president of the Death Valley [...]

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High & Wild Jacket

For Galen & Barbara Rowell, this was home

It was a smoke-choked, triple-digit August Sunday, a day I will never forget. The McNally fire had burned for weeks in Sequoia National Park, its smoke drifting across the Sierra Nevada where it collected like a fog bank in the pocket of the Owens Valley. We were in the Buttermilks most of the day arriving [...]

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Norman Clyde and group on Middle Palisade

Norman Clyde: the vanishing Victorian

With a degree in Classic Literature, an old army hat, and great physical endurance, Norman Clyde became a living legend. He drove nails into the soles of his boots for traction, so slick rock, ice and other obstacles could not keep him from reaching the summits of the mountains he wanted to climb. On cold [...]

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Ansel Adams: Born Free and Equal

For a person like Ansel Adams to come to an internment camp to photograph camp life, where people are pretty bitter for being there, I thought, this man is sympathetic to the situation, to the Japanese American people. Archie Miyatake, photographer, former internee On February 19, 1942, U.S. presidential order forcibly removed more than 110,000 [...]

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