Pueblo Grande de Nevada, the Lost City

The account

For eight centuries Ancestral Puebloans farmed the Moapa Valley, hundreds of pithouses, rock shelters, and ancient salt mines strung along the river, a settlement so large the diggers of the 1920s called it the Lost City. They raced to excavate it in the 1930s before Lake Mead rose and swallowed the richest part. What they saved fills a museum; the rest lies under the water's edge.

Leads, where the trail points now

• Pin down the most specific last-known position in the record before going; the search centers on Moapa Valley, near Overton, Nevada.
• What you are chasing is An Ancestral Puebloan city, salt mines and all, under the lake's edge. Work the documented record of Pueblo Grande de Nevada, the Lost City back to primary sources and separate what is attested from folklore.
• NPS / Nevada heritage, the Lost City Museum at Overton holds the finds; the ground is protected.