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African Americans on the Comstock

African Americans came to the western Great Basin in the 1850s. Read more about this history.

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Reno

Reno has always been a town of contrasts. Find out more about its natural beauty, darkness and cosmopolitan edge.

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    • Carson City Mint
      The Carson City Mint was one of only seven federal mints constructed in the United States. An 1863 Act of Congress established...
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    • Carmelite Monastery, Reno
      In August, 1954, eight nuns from a strictly cloistered Carmelite monastery in Indianapolis accepted an invitation from Nevada...
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    • Carlin
      The town of Carlin emerged soon after the Central Pacific Railroad established the eastern terminus of its Humboldt Division in...
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    • Carleton Eugene Watkins
      Carleton Eugene Watkins, preeminent photographer of the American West, photographed the Comstock during its greatest "boom...
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    • Captain James Hervey Simpson and Highway 50
      Captain James Hervey Simpson of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers laid out the Great Basin portion of modern U.S....
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    • Campaign Finance
      Nevada's first attempts to regulate campaign finance occurred in the 1890s with the birth of the Silver Party and state...
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