Mysteries and Legends of Nevada: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained (Myths and Mysteries Series)
Seventeen Mind-Boggling Tales from the Silver State• At the depths of Lake Tahoe lived the Ong, a birdlike monster of native legend. And then there is the Ong’s modern-day counterpart, Tahoe Tessie. That’s not to mention all the legions of well-preserved human bodies supposedly in the deep. What really lies at the bottom of North America’s third deepest lake?• John Reid spent years seeking evidence for boyhood legends about a bygone tribe of giant man-eating, red-haired Indians in northern Nevada—but were the legends true?• “Was the Garden of Eden Located in Nevada?” So read a 1924 newspaper headline announcing to the world the incredible findings of Captain Alan Le Baron, who saw something positively biblical in the “petrified remains” of once-lush forests in a remote river valley.From the mystery of a U.S. Senator’s death (was he kept on ice until after the election?) to a haunting of the governor’s mansion, Mysteries and Legends of Nevada makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state’s most fascinating and compelling stories.