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The red-haired giants of Lovelock Cave

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

Northern Paiute oral tradition tells of the Si-Te-Cah, a tribe of red-haired giants the Paiute finally trapped and burned in this cave. When guano miners emptied Lovelock Cave between 1911 and 1924 they hauled out thousands of artifacts, sandals, duck decoys and human remains, and the finds lit the legend on fire. The cave and its artifacts are hard archaeology (some of the oldest in the Great Basin); the giants are folklore, and the oversized claims have never held up. Reachable by the Lovelock Cave Back Country Byway.

The ground it haunts

Lovelock Cave, southeast of Lovelock (Pershing County, NV). Source: Northern Paiute oral tradition; the cave excavations of 1911-1924 are documented archaeology. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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