Directions: From Fallon, take U.S. 95 North for 33 miles, then west on Interstate 80 for 4.4 miles and take off on Exit 78. Proceed SE on local roads for about 0.25 miles to historical marker.
From Fallon: 38 miles
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Rarely has a story intrigued me as much as that of the Cyrus Kellog Cabin. It probably bores the #$%^&! out of Luis, but he's a good friend and if he's not interested, at least he pretends to be.
Why does it interest me? Could it be that it's told by the grandfather of a girl I had a crush on in school? Could it be that it personifies what I see as the typical Nevada prospector? Could it be that it's a mysterious yarn with just enough clues to keep it hanging just out of reach?
All I know is that I shall not rest until I've stood on the spot where he lived, looked at the tree which clasped his frozen body, and walked the canyon where he worked and searched for that elusive ore.
The story, in a nutshell, is this: Cyrus Kellog failed to come into town for supplies, the townsfolk worry, the set out to look for him, they find him frozen in a tree. The complete story can be found here at the Churchill County Museum site, which is where I first read it, in Bunny Corkill's article about Stillwater.
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