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00:00Early Nevada prospectors risked it all trying to tame the big empty.

00:12Oh, Jesus Christmas, it's dynamite!

00:15150 years later, things aren't that different.

00:17This is it, man.

00:18This is where you go if you're in big trouble.

00:20Scott and I are heading to the part of the state where nobody ever goes.

00:23Look at this bad boy, dude!

00:24But where nobody goes, I see potential.

00:29That's going to cost you some money.

00:31Oh, man, I'm in heaven.

00:32Got to love Nevada.

00:34I feel lucky out here.

00:36I'm Brady.

00:37$9,325 selling some old treasures.

00:40I make a heck of a living tracking down the treasures of the Old Wild West.

00:45My trail partner, Scott Glaze, is an antique guns expert.

00:51We've taken cowboy history and have built it into a business, buying and reselling to

00:57avid collectors.

00:58500 bucks a pair.

00:59Fine.

01:00Our hunting grounds are run-down ranches and abandoned mines.

01:03And our prize, ghost town gold.

01:11It's thanks to these hills that Nevada is known as the Silver State.

01:14With one mining rush after another, countless Nevadans stake their lives on these lonely

01:18valleys, leading them to a better life.

01:20But living out here is hard, and the house usually wins.

01:27Scott and I are following in their footsteps and looking for our own unpicked gold mines.

01:32I think this is it, man.

01:33It's a rough pass, but I think, you know, it's a typical Brady Shortcut.

01:39We're heading to a tiny mining camp up in the Tyobe Mountains that's too small to even

01:43name.

01:44It's a hard scrub of life that not many people are up for.

01:47150 years ago, these valleys were crisscrossed by the Pony Express, a job so dangerous that

01:53only orphaned teenagers were encouraged to apply.

01:58But it was a gamble that paid out.

01:59Riders made a year's salary with just a few weeks of work, running mail across the Big

02:02Empty between Missouri and California in just over a week.

02:07There was nothing here back then either, but Third Grit paved the way for mining camps

02:10like this one just down the road.

02:13Well, look, check this out.

02:17Ooh, hey, there's some old buildings right here.

02:20I like the looks of that place, actually.

02:22To the untrained eye, these old garages and sheds look like they went up just 20 or 30

02:26years ago.

02:27But this mining camp has been inhabited since just after the Pony Express.

02:31We're just going to pop in and see who we meet.

02:35Whenever I see old galvanized tin buildings, old stuff like this, my car just naturally

02:40pulls over.

02:41All my instincts are popping.

02:51There's some cement poodles.

02:53I actually sell the heck out of those things.

02:55Oh, there's people.

02:56Hey!

02:57Hello!

02:58When we go introduce ourself, they're a little bit cautious, but that's completely understandable.

03:03Hey, how's it going, guys?

03:05I have no idea who this guy is.

03:07None whatsoever.

03:09We didn't know if you had anything that might be for sale.

03:11Are you guys into the dust-buying business?

03:14We're kind of rolling the dice when we go talk to Jack in Virginia.

03:17This is a complete cold contact.

03:19First impressions can last a long time.

03:22Asking folks about their family history is a great way to make them feel at ease.

03:26So your parents had this place.

03:27What did they do for a living?

03:29They had the mail, StarRoute mail carriers.

03:32They delivered mail six days a week.

03:34No kidding.

03:35On Saturdays.

03:37First there was the Pony Express, then came the StarRoute.

03:40For more than a century, these guys went where the post office couldn't hack it, braving

03:44blizzards and floods to get the mail out to the loneliest stretches of the West.

03:49Even in the 40s, Virginia's dad was still pulling 1,000 miles a week out here,

03:53saving everything he owned behind these doors.

03:55And when I notice the locks, I start seeing dollar signs.

04:00I see some great things right off the bat.

04:02I see an old trap hanging along the wall.

04:06Oh, my.

04:07Look at this box here, Scott. That's a pretty cool box.

04:11I immediately see an old Berman bird bit in there.

04:15They call this a bird bit because it looks like there's a little bird head right in here.

04:18A little bit fancy.

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