Major William Ormsby News Today

Updates to the saga of the Ormsby House in Carson City are few and far between, but recently, the sales listing of Carson City’s largest vacant gaming and hotel institution has been updated. It is being listed for $16,750,000.

In celebration of the coming 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Ormsby’s house renovation — scheduled to be completed on July 4, 2001 — I bring you the history of the fabled and unfortunate but still beloved Ormsby House Hotel and Casino.

Paiutes True Ute Tribe 341 Words2 Pages Paiute means “true ute” or “ water ute”.The Paiutes entered Utah about A.D. 1100-1200. The tribe have been alive for more than 916 years now.The Paiutes of Utah live in the south, where the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau meet. The Paiutes had their own language called Paiute Language. It was in the 19th century when the Paiutes made contact with whitemen. There was a raid, Pony Express versus the Paiute Clan. It started in the18...

DENNIS CASSINELLI Many times, when I wore a younger man’s clothes, my family and I enjoyed weekend trips to Pyramid Lake. This beautiful body of water is one of the last remnants of Ancient Lake Lahontan that once covered much of northern Nevada. Several times, we fished for the cui-ui fish when they were running to the mouth of the Truckee River in the Spring. In later years, when I had a motor boat, several of us fished for the cutthroat trout that can reach the size of salmo...