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THe Elbow was a feature on the Walker River, a ranch, and a stage stop on the road to Aurora and Bodie.

The existence of the Elbow Ranch on the East Walker River was first mentioned in April of 1861, in relation to the toll road of Clayton, Pugh & Company. At that time it was the location of the only toll collected on the new toll road that was built to take advantage of the traffic flowing to and from the new Esmeralda mines, at Aurora.
-Nevada Heartland, Mary B. Ansari

This stage station consisted of a frame house, stables, and corrals. The station keeper raised cattle and had a small dairy for Aurora. A post office operated here intermittently, with Dennis Higgons as Postmaster.

The new Toll Road, of Clayton, Pugh & Co., is now completed to within a mile of Aurora, and will soon be finished, a large force of hands being at work upon it. A toll-gate has been erected at Elbow Ranch, near Walker River. This is the only toll as yet collected on the road from Carson Valley to Esmeralda. All kinds of improvements along the route are being hurried up, in expectation of a lively business in the Spring.
- Daily Alta California, 14 April 1861

By this time, ranching and farming activity had increased.

"Four miles further on, is another oasis in the desert where the road branches — one leading to Carson and the other to East Walker. The "Elbow" is one of the numerous stopping places which have grown up along the public highways within the past few years. A good and substantial house has been erected for the accommodation of travelers; whisky flows inside and running water outside, so that man or beast can be accommodated." -J. Ross Browne
-San Francisco Bulletin, February 25, 1865

The Walker River can be treacherous.

FROM AURORA.
AURORA, July 22.—F. W. Schultze from Virginia, was drowned between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning, in East Walker river, at Elbow Ranch, 16 miles from this place, while attempting to cross the river at this point, under the following circumstances: One of Elbow Joe's cows got mired in the quicksand, and Schultze and Joe started to her relief. In crossing, their horses also got stuck in the quicksand and it is supposed Schulze got otf to extricate his horse, but in the attempt, let his horse go and the swift current carried him under and down stream. E. G. Schmidt, one of his partners. was on the bank and only saw hint once afterwards. Up to the present time the body has not been recovered. Sthultze, Schmidt and Thompson were on their way to the Cerro Gordo mines, in Inyo county, California, to erect furnaces and work mines for a Virginia company.
-Carson Daily Appeal, July 24, 1868

So can riding in a stage coach

Last evening about 6 o'clock, as the Carson stage with four passengers was coming down the hill at Elbow Ranch, the brake gave way or broke, when the horses could not hold the stage and commenced running upsetting the stage and breaking it into fragments. The driver, James Thompson, a worthy and temperate man who has drank no spirituous liquors for some years past, with two of tbe passengers, was badly but not seriously hurt. Two of the passengers escaped unhurt, Three of the horses were caught and one is yet missing. Elbow Joe, a he is generally called, but properly Joseph Stewart, to whose house they were taken, started immediately for Sweetwater, where W.F. Wilson, the proprietor, was stopping for the night. On his return from here to Carson he immediately dispatched a man in haste to Carson for a doctor and came on to look after the passengers and brought the mail in here this afternoon. Two of the passengers came in here and the otbers are reported not as badly hurt as was at first supposed, This is the first accident that has occurred since Wilson had the route, now about three years.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 1 September 1873

I imagine by this time, the stage activity was growing to a close.

Frank Hammond of Elbow Station has sold the station to Dock Avery of Aurora.
-Walker Lake Bulletin, March 16, 1892

We made a brief stop here on our way to Somewhere Else. We didn't locate anything in the way of ruins or artifacts, but its a large area to cover and maps pinpointing the location aren't all that accurate. Still a beautifl area.