Walking the Loneliest Roads: The Unsolved Disappearance of Walter George from Nevada’s Stillwater Reservation

A quiet man from Fallon who never came home

Public records describe Walter George as a Native American man in his late fifties, living in the Fallon, Nevada area when he vanished in 1984. He was listed as between 57 and 58 years old at the time, with a date of birth in January 1926, and he stood about 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing roughly 190 to 200 pounds. Multiple databases agree that he had graying black hair and dark eyes, and that he was affiliated with tribal land near Fallon in Churchill County. His disappearance has been classified as a long-term missing person case, and decades later his file still appears in federal and state systems devoted to missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Life on the Stillwater Reservation near Fallon

The last known location for Walter is listed as the Stillwater Reservation, part of the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe’s homelands outside the city of Fallon. The tribe’s own public information explains that its people are centered in two main communities: the Stillwater Reservation, approximately 8,500 acres located about 12 miles from Fallon, and the Fallon Colony, a smaller community just outside the city itself. The reservation sits within the Lahontan Valley, a former lakebed now known for irrigated agriculture and wetlands; Fallon, often called “The Oasis of Nevada,” is a small city of roughly 9,000–10,000 residents at the heart of this region. Walter’s disappearance, as recorded in public case files, unfolded against this backdrop of tribal land, desert valley, and a close-knit rural community....Read More

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