Jarbidge’s 1909 rush is documented history; the sheepherder’s ledge is the legend that lit it
Jarbidge country lore: a sheepherder named Ross said he pulled rich gold from a lost ledge in the canyons, and died before he could return. The 1909 rush that built Jarbidge, the last gold-rush town in the lower 48, chased exactly this story into some of the most remote country in Nevada. The town is real and still there; the ledge never surfaced.
