Golconda, NV, United States
Humboldt River. Peter Skene Ogden encountered the Humboldt River on November 9, 1828 during his fifth Snake Country expedition. Entering Nevada near present-day Denio, Ogden came southward along the Quinn River and the little Humboldt River. Emerging on the Humboldt main stem near this site, Ogden e
xplored hundreds of square miles of the Humboldt’s course, left records of his trailblazing in his journal, and drafted the first map of the area. Ogden gave the name “Unknown River” to the Humboldt a
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