![]() ![]() ![]() After 230 miles, as the Ruby Mountains become visible to the south, the 80 leads to Elko, Nevada.Įvery January since 1985, cowboys, rodeo riders, ranchers, and poets have convened to recite poems and share songs with fans and one another at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering at the convention center here. Salt flats give way to rolling hills covered with sparse grass, sagebrush, and stunted trees it’s easy to imagine mounted cowboys driving herds across the cracked earth. Over the border into Nevada, casinos crop up in every little town along this former route of westward expansion. It’s a great expanse of land, of loneliness, and of solitude. ![]() Shrinking to a narrow two-lanes-in-each-direction highway, it winds through chalky white salt flats and among shallow lakes that seem to reach for the snowcapped mountains in the distance. Heading west out of Salt Lake City, Interstate 80 sheds lanes as the city’s skyscrapers become indistinguishable from the mountains in the rearview mirror. ![]()
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