US-50 (The Lonliest Road)

After visiting Belmont and Manhattan, we continued north on NV-376 to US-50 and then headed west through Austin.  We were headed to Fallon, but it was getting late and it was at least another couple of hours before we'd get to Fallon.  Approximately five miles west of Austin, we came across a large paved area with a historical sign about Jacobsville, a town that served as a Pony Express stop and as a stop for the Overland Stage, now a ghost town, http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nv/jacobsville.htm .  We decided to spend the night there.  It turned out to be a nice quiet area...not another vehicle stopped there the entire time we were parked.

The next day, we continued west on US-50, stopping to see several ruins of Pony Express and Overland Stage stops.

This is difficult to read, even when clicked on to make it bigger.  It talks about Robert "Pony Bob" Haslam, a Pony Express rider.  You can learn more about his story by Googling his name...here's one:
http://www.xphomestation.com/rhaslam.html

We then stopped to see the Shoe Tree.  There weren't many shoes hanging from the trees...turns out that the original shoe tree was cut down by vandals.

 

http://www.travelocafe.com/2011/01/rip-nevada-shoe-tree-may-your-murderers.html

We finally made it to Fallon where we spent the night at Churchill County Fairgrounds, stopping first to have lunch at the Golden Rice Bowl.