Explore Elko’s cowboy roots at a museum filled with historic saddles, spurs, and Western gear. Discover Elko’s cowboy heritage at the Cowboy Arts and Gear Museum, housed in the 1890s workshop of ...

Elko’s Northeastern Nevada Museum is a wild place. So wild, in fact, that it boasts not only some of the most interesting Nevada historical artifacts but a giant collection of wild animals. The exotic ...

Nestled amid a row of businesses on Elko’s Commercial Street, a neat, two-story building with bay windows protruding from the top floor belies the history captured within. Today, the building houses ...

AN OLYMPIAN’S LEGACY: THE BOB CHOW FIREARMS COLLECTION AT THE NORTHEASTERN NEVADA MUSEUM IN ELKO. When Bob Chow, a former U.S. Olympic Team member from San Francisco, died on Oct. 17, 2003, at the age ...

The northeastern Nevada town of Elko certainly has a strong claim to being America’s cowboy capital. In addition to hosting the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering every January, it’s also home of the ...