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Ed Carlson was a free spirit known as “the Waver” who lived in Reno from the 1970s to 2007. He spent every day walking and waving to passing motorists across the county. He sold “pet rocks” and smiled at everyone. He moved back to his birth town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 2007 and died in 2012 at the age of 75. Spotting him on the side of the road and waving back to him from the back of my mom’s station wagon is one of the clearest and most exciting memories I have of being a kid. More people could stand to be like Ed Carlson.

Best of Northern Nevada

Personalities

by Staff August 8, 2018

Johnson Sides was a Paiute chief from Reno who earned the title of U.S. Peacemaker for his work translating and negotiating between the local tribes and the white settlers. He was instrumental in getting the railroad built through the area and earned “free rides for life” on the trains for the Paiute people. Orphaned as a child, he was raised by the Sides family. He spoke French, English and multiple native languages. He’s buried in the historic Hillside Cemetery by the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Goods & Services

by Staff August 8, 2018

Velma Bronn Johnston, known as Wild Horse Annie, was an animal welfare activist who campaigned to stop cruelty toward Nevada’s wild horses and burros. She was born in Reno in 1912. In 1950, Johnston saw a truck overcrowded with horses with blood dripping from the back. She followed the truck to a slaughterhouse. When she learned they were free-roaming horses gathered from Nevada’s Virginia Range, she took action. On Sept. 8, 1959, her dedicated campaign resulted in the federal legislation banning people from hunting and capturing free-roaming horses on federal land. This became known as the Wild Horse Annie Act. Not satisfied, Annie kept fighting and in 1971, the 92nd United States Congress unanimously passed the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. This act prohibited capture, injury or disturbance of free-roaming horses and burros. Johnston died at age 65 on June 27, 1977. She is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery in Reno. Wild Horse Annie faced disadvantages her entire life and still saved our beautiful wild horses and burros from the atrocities of wasteful and uncaring humans. She embodies what a Nevadan should be.

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Best of Northern Nevada 2018

by Brad Bynum August 8, 2018

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Kids & Family

by Staff August 10, 2017

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Food & Drink

by Staff August 10, 2017

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Outdoors

by Staff August 10, 2017

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Casinos & Gambling

by Staff August 10, 2017

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Culture

by Staff August 10, 2017

Best of Northern Nevada

Nightlife

by Staff August 10, 2017

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