Fort Ruby historical trail opens in eastern Nevada

RUBY VALLEY — Soldiers stationed at Fort Ruby, Nev., in the 1860s did not deliberately sign up for an assignment at the remote, halfway point of the Great Basin. “These soldiers were told they were going to fight in the Civil War,” said retired Col. Daniel C.B. Rathbun, author of “Nevada Military Place Names of the Indian Wars and Civil War.” “This was not their first choice.” More than 50 people attended the opening of the Fort Ruby interpretive trail o