• While the Cincinnati Mining Company discovered silver in the Shoshone Mountains of Nye County as early as 1887, Berlin did not...
    • The geothermal area at Beowawe Geysers straddles the Eureka-Lander County line in Whirlwind Valley, about 10 km west of the...
    • In 1865, a Native American discovered a quartz vein of silver in Nye County's Toquima range at 8,000 feet. Miners, many...
    • [VR Morph by Howard Goldbaum] In the 1950s, when the Desert Inn was the most elegant establishment on the Las Vegas Strip, the...
    • Battle Mountain owes its early existence to railroads and mining. When the Central Pacific Railroad came to the area in 1868,...
    • Many of the Basque folkways that we see today in Nevada formed part of the cultural baggage of Basque immigrants, and first...