 If you head east out of Reno and drive about 150 miles up Interstate 80, you'll come to the town of Winnemucca. It's a unique name that leads many to ask, what or who is it? Winnemucca came from Old Chief Winnemucca. He was here when the first white folks came through, and they saw him there with one shoe on. So Winnemucca really means one moccasin. The settlement of the area was something the chief had expected. He told his folks that there would be the white brothers coming through, and his premonitions came true not long after that.