Fallon, NV, United States
People Of The Humboldt. Nevada lies within the Great Basin where rivers drain into lakebeds and sinks, never reaching an ocean. The broad valley around this location contains two of these terminal lake basins or “sinks” one for the Humboldt River arising in northeastern Nevada and the other for the
Carson River flowing from the Sierra Nevada to the southwest. Near the end of the Ice Age, much of this region was beneath the waters of Lake Lahontan. As Lahontan’s water receded, two lake basins for
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