This is gold country, in the mid-1800s fortunes were taken out of the sandbars on the Feather. Some recreational gold claims are still worked on the river; nothing a person could make a living working.
We're camped tonight literally in the shadow of a high rise casino in Reno, tomorrow we drive what is billed as "the loneliest road in North America." That would be U.S. 50 east from Reno to Ely. As much as we've wandered around the U.S. and Canada, we've never driven this road so it will be a new one for us. A few of these still exist.