Amazing Myths and Legends from Carson City, Nevada


	Amazing Myths and Legends from Carson City, Nevada

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7-7-2008 1:08 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7127756d-697e-485b-a515-b3ed91600420/A78DB4DE-3D53-4305-8919-74BCE3277151/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.carson-city.org/history/myths_legends.php" href="http://www.carson-city.org/history/myths_legends.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.carson-city.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.carson-city.org/history/myths_legends.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.carson-city.org/img/F58BA8C5-7EAD-443D-B4D8-B56C4EFACE48" alt="Myths & Legends" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.carson-city.org/history/myths_legends.php"><STRONG>Given Carson City’s close association with Mark Twain—a writer
                known to have spun a tall tale or two—it makes sense that there are a few
            colorful myths and legends involving the community, including:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.carson-city.org/history/myths_legends.php"><P><STRONG>Carson
  City’s Prehistoric Human Footprints</STRONG>—In the late 1870s,
  convicts working at the quarry at the Nevada State Prison began uncovering fossils
  as well as unusual footprints in the stone. In 1881, Warden William Garrard wrote
  to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to request help in determining
  the source of the footprints. While his letter went unanswered, a year later,
  W. J. Hanks, sheriff of Storey County and a former prison employee, met with
  Charles Drayton Gibbes, the academy’s geologist, who agreed to investigate.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.carson-city.org/history/myths_legends.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.carson-city.org/img/9F052168-1688-46B7-8D4B-885B1B4ACC9A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.carson-city.org/history/myths_legends.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.carson-city.org/img/310BEA50-74D0-4213-858B-FE760813777F" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A78DB4DE-3D53-4305-8919-74BCE3277151/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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