130 YEARS AGO
From the Times-Review: A band of genuine gypsies are traveling down the Humboldt Valley on their way to California. Overshoes and ulsters are in requisition in eastern Nevada, while in Carson we are having summer weather. Reports from the Nevada Central railway are encouraging, and by February the sound of the engine whistle will echo up and down "Pony Canyon."
100 YEARS AGO
Every man, woman and child knows the story of Orrin Becksted, the gray-haired kindly gentleman that is both a Nevada pioneer and veteran of the Mexican War. Becksted has recounted thousands of times what it was like serving under President James K. Polk as the remaining Nevada survivor of that conflict (continued Wednesday).
70 YEARS AGO
The entire University of Nevada freshman football team, with the exception of four players, is composed of Nevada high school graduates. Reno leads with five, followed by Ely with three, Tonopah, with one. Even the coach is from Nevada.
50 YEARS AGO
Burglars broke into the Bandanna Drive-Inn over the weekend and stole $200 from the safe, but left $100 in a cash register. Officer Tony Carter said there was no sign of forced entry.
20 YEARS AGO
The classics were in Carson Sunday as part of the 1,000-mile race of vintage automobiles in the Long Beach to Sparks race.
10 YEARS AGO
Carson City resident Gary Short is being honored by the Nevada Arts council as part of the governor's Millennium Awards in the Arts and humanities.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.