Tuscarora is classified as a ghost town although there are a few people still living there.
It's most productive years were from 1870 to 1890
when its mines produced $40,000,000 in silver.
The town's population was about four thousand people,
split almost equally between whites and Chinese.
The Chinese came to build the railroad and stayed to operate opium dens,
brothels and gambling houses.
Located on Mt. Blitzen northwest of Elko on Highway 11,
Tuscarora was as untamed as any camp and worse than many.

It now inhabits a hardy few even through the winter months
and is, in all sense of the word, very COLORFUL...to say the least.