About Us

Ghost Town Whisperer Mark Yateman is a New York native who discovered the Nevada desert at a young age and decided to stay for good. By day he works [ say what you want here ], but by weekends and holidays he jumps into his Land Cruiser to explore the landscape he loves. His superpower is finding lost mining towns that haven't been on maps for a century.


(Nelson, Nevada. Photo by Lynn Downey.)

Ink Slinger Lynn Downey is a much-published historian of the West, as well as an archivist and curator. A native Californian, she is equally at home in the deserts of Nevada and Arizona, and is especially fond of their abandoned and wind-swept cemeteries. The saloons aren't bad either.
 
 
 
(Dirty Dick's Saloon, Belmont, Nevada. Photo by Mark Yateman.)