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Thursday	Event	Presenter	Venue	Price
Opens: 3 p.m.	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Native American arts & crafts displays, items for sale, demonstrations and tour of the Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Native Americans of Nevada and California	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	No Day Pass required today!
5 - 7pm	Cowboy Dinner: Dinner will be served by Trimmer Outpost. Roast Beef, Mashed Potatoes, Green Salad, Basque Beans, Bread and Dessert will be served. One beverage included.	Trimmer Outpost and Ranch One Beef	Old Fire Bay	$20
7 - 9:30pm	Cowboy Poetry & Music	Dave Stamey, Larry Maurice with Richard Elloyan	Mormon Station Main Stage	$30
Friday	Event	Presenter	Venue	Price
All Day	Dutch Oven Cooking: a Dutch Oven Gathering: Nevada Chapter of the International Dutch Oven Society Cowboy cooks will tantalize your tastebuds for cowboy grub cooked in a Dutch oven while they explain what is cooking an how ya do it A sample might satisfy yer curiosity and yer taste buds. The crew will also be available to talk about cooking, public lands grazing or agriculture issues.	Ron Torell and the Nevada Chapter of the International Dutch Oven Society	Giovacchini Apple Orchard	Day Pass
All Day	Western Art Galleries: A juried show of some of the West's finest art.	Genoa Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival and Lone Tree Frame & Gallery	The Pink House, Rustic Barn & Genoa Square	Free - Open to Public
All Day	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Ongoing Workshops, art, crafts presentations, dance and Indian Tacos.	Native Americans of Nevada and California	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
All Day	Cowboy Gift Shop: CD's, Books, Posters, Scarves, Logo items, Cowboy Gifts		Teig Building	Day Pass
All Day	Lariat Basket: Demonstration	Jeff Myers	Wild Rose Inn	Day Pass
9 - 10am	What Is A Cowboy Poet Anyway? Local poet and bard gives his own answer to this question	Ken Gardner	Trimmer Outpost Annex	Day Pass
10am - 4pm	Spaghetti Western Movies. Enjoy a plate of Italian pasta and a beverage with the old time Spaghetti Western movies. Additional charge for food and beverage.	Genoa Counrtry Store	Old Fire Bay	Day Pass
10 - 11:30am	Trail to the Promised Land: Long time resident, Laura Hickey will relate tales of the Emigrant Trail, the most traveled route during the California Gold Rush. An estimated 50,000 California bound Argonauts traveled through Carson Valley over Carson Pass, a 9,640 foot summit	Laura Hickey	Genoa Courthouse Museum Court Room	Day Pass
10am - 12pm	Cowboy Poetry & Music	Ron Scofield, Cindy White, Donna and Dusty Hustace, Sally Joseph, Michael Edward O'Connell	Raycraft Dance Hall	Day Pass
10am - 12pm	Open Mic: Share your talent with an audience of people who love Cowboy Poetry and Music. To sign up contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it		Genoa Bar Annex	Day Pass
10am - 12pm	Basque History: A Peek into Basque history and culture emphasizing arborglyphs created by Basque sheep herders. Participants will make a yarn sheep or finger puppet.	Nancy Hadlock	Genoa Community Church	Day Pass
10:30am - 11am	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Washoe Tribe Cultural Resources Preservation Officer	Darrel Cruz	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
10:30 - 11:30am	Writing Cowboy Poetry	Dave Stamey	Trimmer Outpost Annex	Day Pass
10:30 - 11:30am	Leather Tooling: Jon will demonstrate the craft of tooling leather with intricate designs.	Jon Elliot	Mason's Hall	Day Pass
10:30 - 11:30am	Cowboy Poetry & Music	Sourdough Slim	Fire Station Loft	$20
11 - 12 pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Making Rope and Harpoons	Grayson Toney	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
12 - 12:30pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Edible Herbs, Ethics and Plants	Alan Wallace	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
12 - 1pm	Ranch Life on Elko area ranches: L. W. narrates a DVDs on ranch life on the Spanish Ranch and the Spanish Ranch Rope Corral	L.W. Eklund	Trimmer Outpost Annex	Day Pass
12 - 1:00pm	Western Music	All Hat No Cattle	Fire Station- Fire Bay	Day Pass
12 - 2pm	Cowboy Gear: Find out what gear a cowboy and his horse require, and why.	Wrangler Rich	Genoa Courthouse Museum Lawn	Day Pass
12:30 1pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Washoe Story Tellers,	Steven James & Melba Rakow	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
12:30 - 1:30pm	Writing and Performing Cowboy Poetry with Larry Maurice	Larry Maurice	Fire Station Loft	Day Pass
12:30 - 2pm	Historic Genoa: Genoa Town Historian and native Genoan, Billie Rightmire will recount colorful tales of Genoa's History	Billie Rightmire	Genoa Community Church	Day Pass
12:30 - 2:30pm	Washoe Culture Basket Weaving	Sue Coleman	Mason's Hall	Day Pass
1 - 2:30pm	Poetry/Music	Paul Zarzyski with Ken Gardner/Tony Argento	Mormon Station Main Stage	$20
1 - 1:30pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Great Basin Songs	Kurt Sam	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
1 - 2:30pm	Poetry/Music	Richard Elloyan with John & Betsy Elliott, Connie & Ed Kretchmer	Raycraft Dance Hall	Day Pass
1:30 - 2:30pm	Western Music	All Hat No Cattle	Fire Station- Fire Bay	Day Pass
1:30 - 2:30pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: California Basket Makers Association	Wanda Batchelor	Old Inn Cognito Restauran	Day Pass
1:30-2:30pm	History of Dutch Oven Cooking: The History of Dutch oven cooking, the role these ovens played in early settlement of the west and basic tips on dutch oven cooking. Also a brief discussion on public lands grazing, multiple use concept of public lands grazing and the positive role ruminants have in managing our rangelands.	Ron Torell	Trimmer Outpost Annex	Day Pass
2 - 3:30pm	Storyteller: William Byrnes- Texas Ranger, California Ranger, Sheriff without a county, jail or laws. Nevada's 1st Sheriff.	Bob Ellison	Genoa Courthouse Museum Court Room	Day Pass
2 - 4pm	Blacksmithing: A blacksmithing demonstration in an outdoor venue by a local blacksmith and bagpipe player.	Mike Connell	Wild Rose Inn	Day Pass
2:30 - 3pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Drum Making	Kevin Jones	Old Inn Cognito Restauran	Day Pass
2:30 - 4pm	Wagon Tour of the Genoa Cemetery: The last resting place of some of the most famous of Nevada's history, including Snowshoe Thompson. Tour begins at the Genoa Community Church.	Billie Rightmire	Genoa Cemetery	Day Pass
2:30 - 4pm	Guns of the Old West: A presentation on guns of the old west, how these guns were worn, how guns progressed from the pioneer days of muzzle loaders to repeating riffles, and stories about Wild Bill Hickcock, Doc Holiday, Johnny Ringo and Black Bart.	Michael Curcio	Genoa Bar Annex	Day Pass
2:30 - 4:30pm	Basque History: A peek into Basque history and culture emphaizing arborglyphs created by Basque sheep herders. Participants will make a yard sheep or finger puppet.	Nancy Hadlock	Genoa Community Church	Day Pass
2:30 - 3:30pm	Cowboy Poetry and Music	Sourdough Slim	Fire Station Loft	$20
2:30 -3pm	Poetry/Music	Richard Elloyan with John & Betsy Elliott, Connie & Ed Kretchmer	Raycraft Dance Hall	Day Pass
3 - 4pm	Native Americal Cultural and Historic Center: Acorn Processing	April Moore	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
3 - 4pm	Ghost Towns of Western, NV: Stan Paher, author of Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps, will give short histories of various settlements and towns that peppered the Nevada desert, how they grew and faded and what remains today.	Stan Paher	Trimmer Outpost Annex	Day Pass
3 - 4:30pm	Poetry/Music	Paul Zarzyski with Ken Gardner/Tony Argento	Mormon Station Main Stage	$20
3 - 4:30pm	Being a Poet in the West: A discussion about Cowboy poetry by the author of five poetry collections that honor the West's many cultures and landscapes through resonant, meditative imagery.	Shaun Griffin	Genoa House Inn	Day Pass
3:30 - 5pm	Wild Horses in Nevada	Lacy J. Dalton and the Let em Run Foundation	Raycraft Dance Hall	Day Pass
3:30 - 5pm	Square Dance Instruction	John Hall	Fire Station- Fire Bay	Day Pass
5:30- 7:00pm	Square Dance called by John Hall: Yee Ha! Let's practice what John Hall taught you and have a kickin' time!	John Hall	Fire Station- Fire Bay	Day Pass
5 - 7pm	Cowboy Dinner: Dinner served by the Basque Club at the Old Genoa Fire Bay. Macaroni Salad, Green Salad, Paella (rice dish). Steack and lamb chops and cheese will be served. Includes one beverage.	The Basque Club	Old Fire Bay	$20
5:30 - 6:30 pm	Western Two Step Instruction: Tom and Donna will have you lookin' like a pro in no time flat. Instruction will include basics through intermediate. It would be a good thing to have a pardner!!	T & D Betterton	Raycraft Dance Hall	Day Pass
6:30 - 9pm	Open Mic: Share your talent with an audience of people who love Cowboy Poetry and Music. To sign up contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it		Genoa Bar Annex	Day Pass
7 - 9pm	Melodrama: Shootout at Sadie's Saloon	TOAD, Inc.	Fire Station Loft	Day Pass
7 - 9:30pm	Poetry/Music	Waddie Mitchell/Don Edwards, opening with Ron Scofield	Mormon Station Main Stage	$30
7 - 9:00pm	Western Dance	Old West Trio	Raycraft Dance Hall	$10
Saturday	Event	Presenter	Venue	Price
All Day	Dutch Oven Cooking: A Dutch Oven Gathering: Nevada Chapter of the International Dutch Oven Society Cowboy cooks will tantalize your tastebuds for cowboy grub cooked in a Dutch oven whild they expalin what is cooking an how ya do it A sample might satisfy yer curiosity and yer taste buds. The crew will also be available to talk about cooking, public lands grazing or agriculture issues.	Ron Torell and the Nevada Chapter of the International Dutch Oven Society	Giovacchini Apple Orchard	Day Pass
All Day	Western Art Galleries: A juried show of some of the West's finest art	Genoa Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival and Lone Tree Frame and Gallery	The Pink House, Rustic Barn & Genoa Square	Free - Open to Public
All Day	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Ongoing workshops, art, presentations and Indian Tacos.	Native Americans of Nevada and California	Old Inn Cognito Building	Day Pass
All Day	Cowboy Gift Shop: CD's, Books, Posters, Scarves, Logo items, Cowboy Gifts		Teig Building	Day Pass
All Day	Lariat Basket Demonstration	Jeff Myers	Wild Rose Inn	Day Pass
8am - 10am	River Ranch Bird Walk	Jim Woods - Lahontan Audubon Society	River Ranch Whit Interpretive Center	Day Pass
8am - 12pm	Ranch #1 Tour (includes lunch): Departs from the Foothill Parking Lot to tour the oldest registered ranch in Nevada. The tour will begin with the feeding of cattle, followed by a presentation regarding one of the oldest barns in Nevada. The tour continues with horseshoeing, blacksmithing, the various cuts of beef and roping demonstrations.	JB Lekumberry	Ranch #1	$50
9 - 10am	What Is A Cowboy Poet Anyway? Local poet and bard gives his own answer to this question	Ken Gardner	Timmer Outpost Annex	Day Pass
9 - 10:30am	Self Publish: Make more money, get to press sooner, keep control of your book and even start your own publishing business.	Pat Cueller	Raycraft Dance Hall	Day Pass
10 - 10:30am	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Washoe Tribe Cultural Resource Preservation Officer	Darrel Cruz	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
10 - 1pm	Pleasure Trail Ride in the Pine Nut Mountains: You will ride through the beautiful Carson Valley Pine Nut Mountains. It will be staged out of the Douglas County Fairgrounds and will be 6-8 miles (about 3 hours) long over flat and gently roling, sandy to mildly rock terrain and on some dirt roads. There will be no water crossings. Download the Trial Ride liability and registration form	Dave Rich	Douglas County Fair Grounds and the Pine Nut Mountains	$35 ($45 after 4/16/10)
10 - 11:30am	From Vaquero to Buckaroo: The evolution of the buckaroo spanning 200 years in America's outback.	Charles Greenhaw	Genoa Community Church	Day Pass
10am - 2pm	Ropin' in the Past: Spaghetti Western Movies. Enjoy a plate of Italian pasta and a beverage with the old time Western movies for an additional charge	Genoa Store	Old Fire Bay	Day Pass
10 - 12pm	Open Mic: Share your talent with an audience of people who love Cowboy Poetry and Music. To sign up contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it		Genoa Bar Annex	Day Pass
10am - 11am	Kit Carson: Kit Carson (1809-1868), explorer, trapper, Indian agent, rancher and soldier during his 40 years of travels throughout the Western United States will tell you about his life. An in-character question and answer period will follow.	Dick Clark	Genoa Courthouse Museum Court Room	Day Pass
10:30 - 11:am	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Making rope and harpoons	Grayson Toney	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
10:30 - 11:30am	Poetry/Music	Dennis Golden &"Texas" Tom Weatherby	Fire Station Loft	Day Pass
10:30 - 11:30am	Leather Tooling: Jon will demonstrate the craft of tooling leather into intricate designs.	Jon Elliot	Mason's Hall	Day Pass
10:30 - 12:30pm	Washoe Culture Basket Weaving	Sue Coleman	Trimmer Outpost Annex	Day Pass
11am - 12pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Eagle Wings Dancers	Lois Kane	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
11am - 12pm	Ranch Life on Elko area ranches: L. W. narrates a DVDs on ranch life on the Spanish Ranch and the Spanish Ranch Rope Corral	L.W. Eklund	Raycraft Dance Hall	Day Pass
11am - 12pm	Combining Conservation and Ranching to Benefit People and Nature	Anne Thomas - The Nature Conservatory	River Ranch Whit Interpretive Center	Day Pass
11:30am - 12:30pm	Trail to the Promised Land: Long time resident, Laura Hickey will relate tales of the Emigrant Trail, the most traveled route during the California Gold Rush. An estimated 50,000 California bound Argonauts traveled through Carson Valley over Carson Pass, a 9,640 foot summit	Laura Hickey	Genoa Courthouse Museum Court Room	Day Pass
12 - 12:30pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Edible Hervs Ethics & Plants	Alan Wallace	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
12 - 1pm	Snowshoe Thompson: During this one hour Chautauqua, Don Thompson convincingly portrays Snowshoe Thompson as he tells the story of the man who delivered mail between Placerville, CA and Genoa from 1856 to 1876.	Don Thompson	Genoa Community Church	Day Pass
12 - 2pm	Melodrama: Shootout at Sadie's Saloon	TOAD, Inc.	Fire Station Loft	Day Pass
12 - 2pm	Cowboy Gear: Find out what gear a cowboy and his horse require, and why.	Wrangler Rich	Genoa Courthouse Museum Lawn	Day Pass
12:30 - 1pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Washoe Storytelling	Steven James & Melba Rakow	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
12:30-2:30pm	Blacksmithing: A blacksmithing demonstration in an outdoor venue by a local blacksmith and bagpipe player.	Mike Connell	Wild Rose Inn	Day Pass
12:30 - 2pm	Poetry/Music	Larry Maurice, Richard Eloyan	Raycraft Dance Hall	Day Pass
12:30 - 2pm	Storyteller: Henry Van Sickle and the Outlaw Sam Brown- Bob will relate the exciting tale of Henry Van Sickle, a tough frontiersman and one of Genoa's most prominent citizens, who gained state-wide fame in 1861 for gunning down the outlaw Sam Brown.	Bob Ellison	Genoa Bar Annex	Day Pass
1 - 2:30	Poetry/Music	Waddie Mitchell & Don Edwards	Mormon Station Main Stage	$20
1 - 1:30pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: California Baske Makers Association	Wanda Batchelor	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
1 - 2:30pm	Saddle Making: Russ Murray, Saddle Maker and owner of Murray Saddle Shop will give a work shop that will cover saddle making from the tree up to the finished saddle and discuss all the steps to get it to a finished product.	Russ Murray	Trimmers Outpost Annex	Day Pass
1 - 2:30pm	Major Ormsby and Lucky Bill: THE GAMBLER AND THE EMPIRE BUILDER--the incredible true story of Nevada's founding and the origins of Genoa will be told by Chris Bayer. Based on his book, "Profit, Plots and Lynching", this one man show about Lucky Bill Thorington and Major William Ormsby unravels one of the West's most fascinating historical dramas. Emigrants, vigilantes, thieves, renegades, miners and traders compete along the trail to California during the 1850s. The decade before the emergence of Virginia City and leading up to the Civil War emerges as the story of Nevada's founding.	Chris Bayer	Genoa Courthouse Museum Court Room	Day Pass
1 - 3pm	Wagon Tour of Genoa Town Cemetery: Tour begins at the Genoa Community Church.	Laura Hickey	Genoa Cemetery	Day Pass
1:30 - 2:30pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Acorn Processing	April Moore	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
1:30 - 2:30pm	History of Dutch Oven Cooking	Ron Torell	Genoa Community Church	Day Pass
2:30 - 3:30pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Eagle Wing Dancers	Lois Kane	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
2:30 - 4pm	Mark Twain: Mark Twain is alive and well and looking the way we always "remember" him in his white ice cream suit and a dark velvet bow at this throat, that outburst of gray-white hair, the brushy mustache and brows that bristle even when he smiles.	McAvoy Layne	Raycraft Dance Hall	Day Pass
2:30 - 4pm	Sarah Winnemucca: Sarah was a member of the Paiute tribe, born in what would later become the state of Nevada. She was the daughter of the Chief Winnemucca worked throughout her life to communicate between her people and the white people, to defend Paiute rights and create understanding.	Diana Borges	Fire Station Loft	Day Pass
2:30 - 4pm	Wyatt Earp’s Vendetta Ride Hear the story about Wyatt Earp seeking vengeance on the Cowboy outlaws that killed his brother Morgan and attempted assassination on his brother, Virgil.	Michael Curcio	Genoa Bar Annex	Day Pass
3 - 4:30pm	Poetry/Music	Paul Zarzyski with Old West Trio	Mormon Station Main Stage	$20
3 - 4:00pm	Early Settlement of Mormon Station: Stan relates the history of the Mormon Station settlement, now Genoa, from 1851. Mormon Station is the location of Nevada's first permanent nonnative settlement. Originally settled by Mormon pioneers, it served as a respite for travelers on the California trail.	Stan Paher	Genoa Community Church	Day Pass
3 - 4:00pm	Native American Cultural and Historic Center: Great Basin Songs	Kurt Sam	Old Inn Cognito Restaurant	Day Pass
3 - 4:30pm	Photographing the West: Local photographer of Western life, livestock, etc. Bonnie will teach you composition; how to make a good photograph a great one and take photos that trigger the senses.	Bonnie Mahl	Trimmer Outpost Annex	Day Pass
3:30 - 5pm	Square Dance Instruction	John Hall	Fire Station Fire Bay	Day Pass
5:00 - 7pm	Cowboy Dinner: The Genoa Volunteer Fire Department, will serve Beef Stew, Green salad, bread, and dessert at the Old Fire Bay . Includes a beverage.	Genoa Volunteer Fire Department	Old Fire Bay	$20
5:30- 7pm	Square Dance called by John Hall: Yee Ha! Let's practice what John Hall taught you and have a kickin' time!	John Hall	Fire Station- Fire Bay	Day Pass
6:30 - 9pm	Open Mic: Last chance to share your talent with an audience of people who love Cowboy Poetry and Music. To sign up contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it		Genoa Bar Annex	Day Pass
5:30 - 6:30 pm	Western Two Step Instruction: Tom and Donna will have you lookin' like a pro in no time flat. Instruction will include basics through intermediate. It would be a good thing to have a pardner!!	Tom & Donna Betterton	Raycraft Dance Hall	Day Pass
7 - 9:30pm	Western Dance	Cross Town Cowboys	Raycraft Dance Hall	$10
7-9:30pm	Cowboy Music	Lacy J Dalton, David John and the Comstock Cowboys	Mormon Station Main Stage	$30
Sunday	Event	Presenter	Venue	Price
8 - 12noon	Flapjack Breakfast: Includes pancakes, sausage, eggs, milk, orange juice, and coffee	Mason's	Mason's Hall	$5
10 - 11am	Cowboy Church	David John/Cross Town Cowboys/Patrick Jolly	Genoa Communtiy Church

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