SHARKEY BEGOVICH owned Sharkeys Nugget Casino in Gardnerville Nevada. I actually worked for Sharkey first as a dishwasher when I was going to school there. At that time I lived in Markleeville, CA. Then after I got out of the millitary I went back to work for him as a Black Jack and Craps Dealer. I didn't like that work so I didn't last long. Sharkey is dead now but he was a good man. Not a typical casino owner. Sharkey's is still in business to this day but has transferred ownership at least 3 times since Sharkey's death. I didn't know about this plaque that he donated. Amazing. and Thanks Sarah.
Sharkey's used to have a cheap prime rib dinner that was really good. We used to drive down from south Tahoe for it. Looking at the pictures all over the walls that showed Sharkey, one at a time, with everybody else you could think of, was pretty interesting too.
Back in the 30's, when my Dad was just a youngster, a 3-4 year old boy wandered off and died of exposure before the searchers could find him. He was buried on the spot and the grave marked with a wooden cross. 80+ years later my Dad and uncle came across the grave, now just a depression, and marked it with stainless steel pipe. The location has long been known as "Lost Boy Creek".
I took the California Zephyr to Sacramento - I would highly recommend that for anyone who wants to see the Rockies and some of the most unspoiled natural scenery left in the USA (with the exception of roads and railroads). Granted, it was in July but it was a trip that I will remember forever. Thanks for taking the time to show us these lonely sites - and as always, appreciate the time you take to give the background on your explorations. Happy New Year, Wonderhussy, and may you keep wandering safely and thanks for taking us with you as you head out on your next adventure. 💖💖💖
I loved this video. My teenage great-great grandfather and grandmother and their relatives made the overland wagon train trip to California in 1852 a little bit further north that ended at Diamond Springs near Placerville. One of the young men in the party died from cholera. My relatives first met on the wagon train. His son grew up to become the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court from 1925 to 1940. My Mom's family were directly related to Swiss immigrant John Sutter who founded Sutter's Fort in today's Sacramento and whose mill was the location where the Gold Rush began. The two early California families would eventually meet and here I am.
I grew up in central California on a large farm during the 1970s drought and I learned that early snow ❄️ in the Sierras foretells DOUGHT, very accurately. So my prediction for this year is 4 inches of rain below average for the entire rainy season.
My Great grandparents came through Nebraska and lived in a sod shanty there, and wound up making their money in sugar beets in Gridley, Co. they wound up on the Western Slope of Colorado, Olathe/Montrose area, raising potatoes and the other side of family were the first to bring a piano over the Rocky Mountains, and it was in the Museum in Ouray!
They crossed the mountains on what was called the Mormon Emigrant Trail, which had been established a few years earlier than 1850. It was used by Kit Carson and the Fremont party when they crossed, giving the pass the name of Carson Pass. It was considered a little easier than Donner Pass. Thanks for the vid. I remember stopping here many years ago when I was 3 or 4 years old. It seemed so sad to me.
Sarah (wunderhussy) you always bring me joy on ur posts, when I was 14 my dad wanted to know about her burial site, I'm 74 now and never knew why. He died in 1997 at 94 yrs old.
Beautiful views of "the Middle of Nowhere" in this video. Well done. It made me want to leave gloomy, cold Ohio and go trekking through the snow covered mountains on a sunny day like you had in November. Thanks for taking us along.
Very interesting Wonderhussy historical moment. Consider the potential irony of descendants of the Milton family working for Caltran all these years later. And they unknowingly were involved in obliterating poor Alan's grave. Glad you made it home to your compound safely and had a great family gathering for the holidays, Sarah. Have a blessed and happy New Year. ❤❤❤
You're one of a kind special - great imagination and dialogue - always entertaining and uplifting - Happy New Year Wonderhussy! Looking forward to being truly present in the moments of joy, you bring to us, in the new year.
This is my favorite episode so far, Sarah - thank you so much for hiking out there in the deep snow and showing this to us! I can't do that anymore and this meant so much to me!
Love almost all of your videos MS. Hussy. I want to wish you and yours a Happy New Year, also to the world, lets try harder to bring peace and truth for all.
Happy New Year Wonderhussy!! It's so great to start the New Year with our girl, Sarah. Ms Wonderhussy! Cool video Sarah...but yes get back to the desert lands and hit the roads for more interesting mines, abandoned cabins/homestead's and anything of interest out in the open range/vask lands so we may here more of your great storytelling! 👍 Here's to a great New Year and wishing you and Eliza a wonderful year of prosperity, happiness and good health! Plus more wonderful things to discover and explore! Safe travels my friend. So happy to have gotten my Hussy fix! 👍😆😊
You're in the right places. I didn't get the geography nor forward observing that I need on UA-cam, but your episodes are head food. I'm surprised you didn't leave a gold artificial rose, but this gravesite was honored by your visit and words. Stay warm, WH.
This is just an aside and I don't know if it has any meaning or not. There is a Rachel Melton, age 17 and an Allen Melton, age 23, brother and sister, shown on the 1850 census for Henry county, Iowa. The date shown for the recording is Aug. 31, 1850. I don't know if this is just a strange coincidence or if it really means something. I just thought it was interesting.
Happy New Year, this style of adventure is you at your very best, weaving a little bit of fact with a fictional monologue. Always entertaining and enabling us to put aside the cares of the world for the time being. Keep up the good work and hope that your health concerns have been resolved in a good way. Thanks
I live in Henry county Iowa Huss! I've been watching your channel for years. Love your stories. Glad to be an early subscriber. Have to look around for the Melton's.
That story reminded me of Wuthering Heights, a little. When you spoke of their ghosts intermingling amongst the snow and pine trees in that Beautiful setting.
Try the US Army 'Cold Weather Survival Training. It never got above -20F We didn't have tents, just a sleeping bag and a 'tent half' which is just a small canvas tarp that you used to deflect the wind. You used snow for insulation. There were some fallen branches, but weren't given an ax to cut down the one sided saplings. Our food was very stale Korean War era C-Rattans. I took the training over 50 years ago.
@@drkskyes You're welcome! I was the Engineer at Ft Greeley's small radio & TV stations so I spent a lot of tine out in that weather. High winds and snow blindness were common, as well.
Another awesome video!! We love highway 88. We have an aunt and uncle in Stagecoach Nevada and that was our pass of choice. We start 11 miles south of Turlock and wind through the gold country. Then over 88 and first stop is always the Genoa Bar (it's the oldest continously run thirst parlor in Nevada) for a drink. Now I have an aunt and uncle who live in Genoa. Maybe someday we can head back.
Happy New Year Sarah. I always enjoy your stories. When I take road trips and come across interesting sites I always wish you were along to tell a story about the place ❤
Howdy Sarah! Awesome tale, thanks so much for sharing, wishing you a safe and healthy new year to come😉, try to stay warm and wishing you safe passage to wherever you go. 😘
You'll have to go to Murphys, on hwy 4 going over the Mt. My favorite place. The klampers have a big gathering every year. The biker run came thru and stayed at Murphys the week before the klampers gig. The town use to kinda close stores during this time because of the ruckus in town. Loads of fun.
Happy New Years 2025 to all. This story is about a grave that might not be so accurate and one now missing for another family member. West of Tragedy Spring, CA on highway CA-88 you will find this one headstone marker. Put up by the owner of Sharkey's Nugget Casino the now deceased Milos Begovich. The casino once sported a large collection of Western memorabilia but now only a vintage slot machine colletion is there now. So detective Sarah Jane is on the case about the other deceased person Allen Melton that is buried there and where the other younger Melton family member is. Excellent storytelling there Sarah!
Another incredible story thank you Sarah Jane! We are so removed from the true hardships of the Oregon Trail era. Although plenty are facing hardship today, don't get me wrong. Anyway, thank you for letting us share your travels, and what a glorious snowy, clear sky day to be exploring the Sierra Nevada 🇦🇺❤️🩵🧡🇺🇸
Happy New Year WH fans! 🎉 Keep up the great work wonder hussy !! Looking forward to a brand new year of your exciting videos and adventures, and really do have to say how I love the way you pay respect to those that have passed in all of the places that you explore, as well as the way you pay tribute to the Native Americans that were taken away from their Homeland.
Happy New Year to all participants of this channel! Can you say rabbit hole? Wow all the possibilities of the lives WH was talking about. It could go on and on and... Hello to Mom and Grandma of WH
I love the way you pull this shit ,I mean this stuff out of your brain. I could listen to you all day. Are you having any events January to April? We go to Lake Havasu every year. Happy New Year ❤
Thanks Sarah for visiting this area...I'm sure there are hundreds of pioneer graves throughout the Sierras of people that never made it to the promised land.
Wonderhussy, thank you for your interesting and always entertaining adventures. I hope any previous health concerns are gone with this New Year. We are blessed with your gift of storytelling.. 💥Happy New Year💥
SHARKEY BEGOVICH owned Sharkeys Nugget Casino in Gardnerville Nevada. I actually worked for Sharkey first as a dishwasher when I was going to school there. At that time I lived in Markleeville, CA. Then after I got out of the millitary I went back to work for him as a Black Jack and Craps Dealer. I didn't like that work so I didn't last long. Sharkey is dead now but he was a good man. Not a typical casino owner. Sharkey's is still in business to this day but has transferred ownership at least 3 times since Sharkey's death. I didn't know about this plaque that he donated. Amazing. and Thanks Sarah.
You are a man of many talents, @mobiltec! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Sharkey's used to have a cheap prime rib dinner that was really good. We used to drive down from south Tahoe for it. Looking at the pictures all over the walls that showed Sharkey, one at a time, with everybody else you could think of, was pretty interesting too.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 Sharkey was a very interesting man.
Very interesting! I was just at Sharkeys casino 12-31-24
@@martinblevins9442 The food is great...
Back in the 30's, when my Dad was just a youngster, a 3-4 year old boy wandered off and died of exposure before the searchers could find him. He was buried on the spot and the grave marked with a wooden cross. 80+ years later my Dad and uncle came across the grave, now just a depression, and marked it with stainless steel pipe. The location has long been known as "Lost Boy Creek".
I love your habit of paying tribute to past people and places. This one is poignant and explains the appeal of your adventures.❤
I am so glad Wonder Hussey is not a person prone to make endless, wild and numerous speculations.
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I took the California Zephyr to Sacramento - I would highly recommend that for anyone who wants to see the Rockies and some of the most unspoiled natural scenery left in the USA (with the exception of roads and railroads). Granted, it was in July but it was a trip that I will remember forever. Thanks for taking the time to show us these lonely sites - and as always, appreciate the time you take to give the background on your explorations. Happy New Year, Wonderhussy, and may you keep wandering safely and thanks for taking us with you as you head out on your next adventure. 💖💖💖
Thanks for that 👍
Seconded.
I love it when Sarah just makes up stories off the cuff. What a great video, so fun. Thanks, Sarah.
I loved this video. My teenage great-great grandfather and grandmother and their relatives made the overland wagon train trip to California in 1852 a little bit further north that ended at Diamond Springs near Placerville. One of the young men in the party died from cholera.
My relatives first met on the wagon train. His son grew up to become the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court from 1925 to 1940.
My Mom's family were directly related to Swiss immigrant John Sutter who founded Sutter's Fort in today's Sacramento and whose mill was the location where the Gold Rush began. The two early California families would eventually meet and here I am.
Happy New Year ❤❗️Love your storytelling gift.
The Donner Party videos are still your best youtube work to date.
Hey Chucky, thanks for the comment on Sarah's Donner Party videos!
I grew up in central California on a large farm during the 1970s drought and I learned that early snow ❄️ in the Sierras foretells DOUGHT, very accurately. So my prediction for this year is 4 inches of rain below average for the entire rainy season.
My Great grandparents came through Nebraska and lived in a sod shanty there, and wound up making their money in sugar beets in Gridley, Co. they wound up on the Western Slope of Colorado, Olathe/Montrose area, raising potatoes and the other side of family were the first to bring a piano over the Rocky Mountains, and it was in the Museum in Ouray!
WoW! Awesome post!!🤍
They crossed the mountains on what was called the Mormon Emigrant Trail, which had been established a few years earlier than 1850. It was used by Kit Carson and the Fremont party when they crossed, giving the pass the name of Carson Pass. It was considered a little easier than Donner Pass. Thanks for the vid. I remember stopping here many years ago when I was 3 or 4 years old. It seemed so sad to me.
You can never keep an excellent WHbstory down. A superb time was had by all. Please keep them coming Miss WH,, wonderful.
my head hurts my stomach aches, going back to bed. But I did get my Wonderhussy fix thank you!
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Were you smelling WH armpits to get that headache and stomach ache?
Happy New Year Miss Hussie.
Sarah (wunderhussy) you always bring me joy on ur posts, when I was 14 my dad wanted to know about her burial site, I'm 74 now and never knew why. He died in 1997 at 94 yrs old.
Happy New Year 2025 to WonderHussy and WonderFamily ❤ and WonderFollwers 🥰🥰 🍷🍺🍸🍾🥳🥳
Thank you for providing content on this new years day, when there's nothing else showing.
Beautiful views of "the Middle of Nowhere" in this video. Well done. It made me want to leave gloomy, cold Ohio and go trekking through the snow covered mountains on a sunny day like you had in November. Thanks for taking us along.
Very interesting Wonderhussy historical moment. Consider the potential irony of descendants of the Milton family working for Caltran all these years later. And they unknowingly were involved in obliterating poor Alan's grave.
Glad you made it home to your compound safely and had a great family gathering for the holidays, Sarah. Have a blessed and happy New Year. ❤❤❤
Happy new years... I hope you are doing well an the doctor appointment went well.
The snow was the best prop for this story. You know how to set a stage, XXOO
You're one of a kind special - great imagination and dialogue - always entertaining and uplifting - Happy New Year Wonderhussy! Looking forward to being truly present in the moments of joy, you bring to us, in the new year.
WH-no one can weave a tale as well as you can! Bravo and a happy and prosperous New Year!
This is my favorite episode so far, Sarah - thank you so much for hiking out there in the deep snow and showing this to us! I can't do that anymore and this meant so much to me!
Happy New Year 🎉🎉
Love almost all of your videos MS. Hussy. I want to wish you and yours a Happy New Year, also to the world, lets try harder to bring peace and truth for all.
*HEAR* *HEAR!* 🥂
Happy Prosperous New Year
Many many blessings 💕
A wonderful sentiment, moose
Happy New Year Wonderhussy.
Happy New Year Wonderhussy!! It's so great to start the New Year with our girl, Sarah. Ms Wonderhussy! Cool video Sarah...but yes get back to the desert lands and hit the roads for more interesting mines, abandoned cabins/homestead's and anything of interest out in the open range/vask lands so we may here more of your great storytelling! 👍 Here's to a great New Year and wishing you and Eliza a wonderful year of prosperity, happiness and good health! Plus more wonderful things to discover and explore! Safe travels my friend. So happy to have gotten my Hussy fix! 👍😆😊
Me too.
*WHOO* *HOOO!* L👀K AT THAT VIEW!! What a New Years Day Surprise!! Man Huss you seriously never disappoint 🤍
Thank yoooouuuuu we love yooouuu ❄️
Any views over those mountains are amazing.
Happy New Year Sarah! May 2025 be full of more adventures and good health! Safe travels!!
Happy new year Sara🎉
You're in the right places. I didn't get the geography nor forward observing that I need on UA-cam, but your episodes are head food. I'm surprised you didn't leave a gold artificial rose, but this gravesite was honored by your visit and words. Stay warm, WH.
Great story--and you're 100% right about "Sierra Nevada Mountains."
This is just an aside and I don't know if it has any meaning or not. There is a Rachel Melton, age 17 and an Allen Melton, age 23, brother and sister, shown on the 1850 census for Henry county, Iowa. The date shown for the recording is Aug. 31, 1850. I don't know if this is just a strange coincidence or if it really means something. I just thought it was interesting.
It'd be one heck of a coincidence. Thanks for posting the information.
Happy New Year, this style of adventure is you at your very best, weaving a little bit of fact with a fictional monologue. Always entertaining and enabling us to put aside the cares of the world for the time being. Keep up the good work and hope that your health concerns have been resolved in a good way. Thanks
Cholera was the biggest killer on the trails.😊
Thanks!
Happy New Year to you, Wonderhussy! My wife and I love having a Wonderhussy video on New Years Day!
Happy New Year WH 😀
Wow! That's Heavy, Wild, annd Far Out young lady! Rock On!!!😎👍
A new Wonderhussy for the new year. Starting the year off right.
I live in Henry county Iowa Huss! I've been watching your channel for years. Love your stories. Glad to be an early subscriber. Have to look around for the Melton's.
What a way to spend a early morning ☕🍩
Another fabulous adventure!
Great job Wunderhussy, amazing tale, superb delivery really great camera work. You are a national treasure!!!
That story reminded me of Wuthering Heights, a little. When you spoke of their ghosts intermingling amongst the snow and pine trees in that Beautiful setting.
Try the US Army 'Cold Weather Survival Training. It never got above -20F We didn't have tents, just a sleeping bag and a 'tent half' which is just a small canvas tarp that you used to deflect the wind.
You used snow for insulation. There were some fallen branches, but weren't given an ax to cut down the one sided saplings. Our food was very stale Korean War era C-Rattans. I took the training over 50 years ago.
Thank you for your service.
@@drkskyes You're welcome! I was the Engineer at Ft Greeley's small radio & TV stations so I spent a lot of tine out in that weather. High winds and snow blindness were common, as well.
Happy New Year Sarah 🎉❤
Another great adventure! Happy New Year Huss!!
Another awesome video!! We love highway 88. We have an aunt and uncle in Stagecoach Nevada and that was our pass of choice. We start 11 miles south of Turlock and wind through the gold country. Then over 88 and first stop is always the Genoa Bar (it's the oldest continously run thirst parlor in Nevada) for a drink. Now I have an aunt and uncle who live in Genoa. Maybe someday we can head back.
Thank you for your entertaining personality and inquisitive outlook. You do good work! Happy New Year 🎊 and may it continue to be a treat! 😊
They called one Trading Post a “Haberdashery” in a Tarantino flick
Were you near a city called Red Rock? (Can you say? Blink twice! 😮)
Wonderhussy, so love your videos!!! You do an incredible job of putting them together, entertaining and educating us, taking us along on your journeys
Hope your holidays were good ❤️❤️❤️
Good for you Sarah to hike through that deep snow to pay tribute to that young ladie’s grave. You’re a Trooper !😊
Tinkle Bell rambles at the summit. She's welcome I watched. 💜
Great video. The original marble headstone is buried beneath the snow. The true Maidens Grave is near Tragedy Spring. Due east of this location.
The HUSSMEISTER survived the Kooky New Year's Drunk and Stumbles. You go Girl
Happy New Year Wonderhussy, we love your travels, beautiful country up there!
Thanks for the adventure in a snow covered beauty of the mountains and the history of the pioneers stay safe looking forward too more 🎉
Thank you for sharing your adventures. I appreciate escaping to your world from mine which can seem so ordinary
Very well done Wonder. It is always so exciting to see a new video of yours. I hope all your dreams come true in 2025.
The majestic beautiful Sierra Nevadas's! Beautiful photography and and amazing story, Wonderhussy! 😃
Great video. Safe travels.
Know the location on 88 and after all these years learned from your well done presentation the significance and history, thank you.
Awesome! Happy New Year!
So much is under thousands of years of Chang in the storms & sans, and what’s beneath . Fascinating ✌️💫
Very nice miss Huss! Respect 😢
Happy New Year. Hope you make many more great videos and make us smile with your funny talk. Love your video's ❤💫🥂
Many happy and safe trails for the New Year Sarah! :-)
Happy New Year Sarah. I always enjoy your stories. When I take road trips and come across interesting sites I always wish you were along to tell a story about the place ❤
Howdy Sarah! Awesome tale, thanks so much for sharing, wishing you a safe and healthy new year to come😉, try to stay warm and wishing you safe passage to wherever you go. 😘
Happy New Year
Forward Ho! Wishing you Bliss Wonderhussy! Happy New Year!🎉❤
Happy New Year to mom too!
We dug out an ole hot spring in the snow one year around that area a long time ago. Maybe just a little bit lower...above Pioneer.
You'll have to go to Murphys, on hwy 4 going over the Mt. My favorite place. The klampers have a big gathering every year. The biker run came thru and stayed at Murphys the week before the klampers gig. The town use to kinda close stores during this time because of the ruckus in town. Loads of fun.
You have quite the imagination! A real raconteur! Love your videos. Happy New Year!
Happy New Years 2025 to all. This story is about a grave that might not be so accurate and one now missing for another
family member. West of Tragedy Spring, CA on highway CA-88 you will find this one headstone marker. Put up by the
owner of Sharkey's Nugget Casino the now deceased Milos Begovich. The casino once sported a large collection of
Western memorabilia but now only a vintage slot machine colletion is there now. So detective Sarah Jane is on the case
about the other deceased person Allen Melton that is buried there and where the other younger Melton family member is.
Excellent storytelling there Sarah!
Well gee Wonderhussy, Happy New Year.
Another incredible story thank you Sarah Jane! We are so removed from the true hardships of the Oregon Trail era. Although plenty are facing hardship today, don't get me wrong. Anyway, thank you for letting us share your travels, and what a glorious snowy, clear sky day to be exploring the Sierra Nevada 🇦🇺❤️🩵🧡🇺🇸
Happy New year ✌️🎉 and I truly appreciate your history lore.
If you read the comments WOW some folks are wild. Watching from Texas absolutely dig what you do girl. Keep ur head up. Content is everywhere
Happy New Year WH fans! 🎉
Keep up the great work wonder hussy !! Looking forward to a brand new year of your exciting videos and adventures, and really do have to say how I love the way you pay respect to those that have passed in all of the places that you explore, as well as the way you pay tribute to the Native Americans that were taken away from their Homeland.
Wonderful story thank you for spending time to make this posting!
Love the nod to Robert Frost; "miles to go before I sleep" I think the Poem is about walking thru a forest on a snowy evening. How fitting
Happy New Year to all participants of this channel! Can you say rabbit hole? Wow all the possibilities of the lives WH was talking about. It could go on and on and... Hello to Mom and Grandma of WH
I love the way you pull this shit ,I mean this stuff out of your brain. I could listen to you all day. Are you having any events January to April? We go to Lake Havasu every year. Happy New Year ❤
Great view. Have a good year
HAPPY New Year!😂❤
thanks great to see you again and your wonderfull video
And definitely back to the desert... I do not much care for snow... I went through Dahmer pass picked up a rock as a souvenir. It looked very rugged
Thanks for the information. I appreciate it
I'm impressed you went through the snow LOL keep it up I just love watching you 10 for 10
Thanks Sarah for visiting this area...I'm sure there are hundreds of pioneer graves throughout the Sierras of people that never made it to the promised land.
Wonderhussy, thank you for your interesting and always entertaining adventures. I hope any previous health concerns are gone with this New Year. We are blessed with your gift of storytelling.. 💥Happy New Year💥
When the Donner Party hit the Pass the snow was approximately 30' deep.
Happy New Year Sarah Jane Love You😎
HUSS, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Fun Visit. Passed that point on Hwy 88 many times. Thanks for sharing.
Happy New Year! You just reminded me of a trip to ski in the Sierra Nevada in Spain. ❤
Great video I really enjoyed it thank you wonder hussy.